SQL Server Job Trends in Bristol

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 60 51
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 37 29 127
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.37% 2.78% 3.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.89% 14.50% 28.93%
Number of salaries quoted 34 20 90
10th Percentile £44,875 £34,750 £33,975
25th Percentile £50,625 £38,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.28% +17.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,875 £66,137
90th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £75,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Database & 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 186 200 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 6.91% 19.14% 13.45%
Number of salaries quoted 127 144 305
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,450 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -2.01%
75th Percentile £74,375 £76,563 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,600 £94,250 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,837
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.64% +0.26%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Bristol

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.81%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) SaaS
3 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (5.41%) Power Automate
4 2 (5.41%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.70%) AWS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless
5 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (18.92%) MySQL
3 5 (13.51%) Oracle Database
4 4 (10.81%) Power BI
5 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (5.41%) Power Query
6 2 (5.41%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
General
1 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Finance
2 2 (5.41%) Retail
3 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (62.16%) Developer
2 9 (24.32%) Software Developer
3 7 (18.92%) SQL Developer
3 7 (18.92%) SQL Server Developer
4 5 (13.51%) DBA
4 5 (13.51%) MySQL DBA
4 5 (13.51%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (10.81%) .NET Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior
7 2 (5.41%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Graduate
7 2 (5.41%) Graduate Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Graduate Software Developer
7 2 (5.41%) PHP Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (45.95%) .NET
2 12 (32.43%) REST
3 10 (27.03%) ASP.NET
4 9 (24.32%) AngularJS
4 9 (24.32%) CSS
4 9 (24.32%) HTML
5 4 (10.81%) Entity Framework
6 3 (8.11%) .NET Core
6 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (8.11%) React
7 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
7 2 (5.41%) Dapper ORM
7 2 (5.41%) WPF
8 1 (2.70%) Django
8 1 (2.70%) Flask
8 1 (2.70%) Kafka
8 1 (2.70%) OAuth
8 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.70%) RESTful
8 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Windows
2 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
2 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Agile
2 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
3 6 (16.22%) Analytics
3 6 (16.22%) API Development
3 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (16.22%) Scrum
4 5 (13.51%) Clean Code
4 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (10.81%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (10.81%) AI
5 4 (10.81%) Data Modelling
5 4 (10.81%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (10.81%) ETL
5 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.81%) Roadmaps
5 4 (10.81%) Visualisation
6 3 (8.11%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (8.11%) Microservices
6 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) C#
2 15 (40.54%) SQL
3 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.92%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.81%) PHP
5 4 (10.81%) Python
6 2 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (5.41%) R
7 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Ansible
1 5 (13.51%) Progress Chef
1 5 (13.51%) Puppet
2 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Oracle
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft