SQL Server Jobs in Bristol

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 52 63
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 29 128 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.33% 3.71% 4.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.15% 25.86% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 20 91 82
10th Percentile £34,750 £34,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,125 £43,750 £35,862
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +20.22% -8.50%
75th Percentile £56,875 £67,443 £62,331
90th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £65,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Bristol

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 205 495 573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 16.49% 14.34% 24.08%
Number of salaries quoted 146 308 381
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -2.01% +7.62%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £72,306
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £87,419
South West median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,700
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.52% +5.40%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Bristol

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Bristol.

Salary trend for SQL Server in Bristol

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Bristol

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.34%) IIS
3 2 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.90%) NServiceBus
3 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.45%) CMS
4 1 (3.45%) Luigi
4 1 (3.45%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (17.24%) IaaS
4 4 (13.79%) AWS
4 4 (13.79%) SaaS
5 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub
7 1 (3.45%) Sage Pay
7 1 (3.45%) Serverless
7 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) Firewall
2 6 (20.69%) LAN
2 6 (20.69%) WAN
3 5 (17.24%) SD-WAN
3 5 (17.24%) VPN
3 5 (17.24%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (13.79%) Wireless
5 3 (10.34%) DNS
5 3 (10.34%) MPLS
5 3 (10.34%) SAN
5 3 (10.34%) Unified Communications
6 2 (6.90%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (6.90%) DHCP
6 2 (6.90%) IPsec
6 2 (6.90%) VLAN
6 2 (6.90%) VoIP
7 1 (3.45%) FTP
7 1 (3.45%) HTTP
7 1 (3.45%) SMTP
7 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Relational Database
2 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.90%) MS Access
4 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.45%) Airbyte
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.45%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.45%) DB2
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) GitLab
2 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) Git
3 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
4 2 (6.90%) Fiddler
4 2 (6.90%) Postman
4 2 (6.90%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.45%) Log4Net
General
1 7 (24.14%) Finance
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.45%) Back Office
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Electronics
3 1 (3.45%) Law
3 1 (3.45%) Legal
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.45%) Marketing
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Tech for Good
3 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) IT Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.90%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) IT Support
6 2 (6.90%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Senior IT Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior IT Support
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) .NET
2 8 (27.59%) .NET Framework
3 7 (24.14%) .NET Core
4 6 (20.69%) REST
5 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET
5 5 (17.24%) HTML
5 5 (17.24%) RESTful
6 4 (13.79%) CSS
7 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
7 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (10.34%) Entity Framework
7 3 (10.34%) HTML5
7 3 (10.34%) JSON
7 3 (10.34%) React
8 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (6.90%) Bootstrap
8 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (6.90%) OAuth2
8 2 (6.90%) React Native
8 2 (6.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Clustering
1 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
1 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.45%) NHS
2 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Windows
2 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 6 (20.69%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
3 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (6.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Microservices
2 8 (27.59%) DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) Agile
3 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
3 7 (24.14%) Test Automation
4 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (20.69%) ITIL
4 6 (20.69%) Migration
4 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.79%) API Development
6 4 (13.79%) Coaching
6 4 (13.79%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
6 4 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
6 4 (13.79%) Server Management
6 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) C#
3 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
5 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.90%) VBA
7 1 (3.45%) C
7 1 (3.45%) Java
7 1 (3.45%) Python
7 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) ACMT
3 2 (6.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) MCSA
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
1 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (17.24%) vSphere
2 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.90%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Autotask
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.90%) SCCM
2 2 (6.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (27.59%) VMware
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle
4 3 (10.34%) CheckPoint
4 3 (10.34%) Cisco
4 3 (10.34%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (10.34%) SolarWinds
4 3 (10.34%) Zscaler
5 2 (6.90%) Apple
5 2 (6.90%) Aruba
5 2 (6.90%) Citrix
5 2 (6.90%) Datto
5 2 (6.90%) Sophos
5 2 (6.90%) Veeam
6 1 (3.45%) Cognos
6 1 (3.45%) PayPal
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.45%) SAP