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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 68 44
Rank change year-on-year -7 -24 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 22 37 134
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.99% 2.81% 5.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.38% 15.10% 28.63%
Number of salaries quoted 19 16 122
10th Percentile £42,250 £47,500 £33,875
25th Percentile £46,875 £55,938 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,996 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.08% +5.59% +31.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £67,000 £83,125 £91,934
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +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 143 245 468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 6.44% 18.60% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 102 142 374
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +20.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £77,929
90th Percentile £86,125 £85,000 £91,934
South West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%

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 1 February 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 2 (9.09%) NServiceBus
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Superset
2 1 (4.55%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 13 (59.09%) Power Platform
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (4.55%) DHCP
2 1 (4.55%) IPsec
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) VLAN
2 1 (4.55%) VoIP
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) GIS
4 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) Metadata
4 1 (4.55%) Neo4j
4 1 (4.55%) OLAP
4 1 (4.55%) OLAP Cube
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
4 1 (4.55%) Tableau
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Marketing
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Billing
5 1 (4.55%) Electronics
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Local Government
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Data Scientist
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 2 (9.09%) Analyst
2 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 1 (4.55%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Business Manager
3 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Gen AI Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Insight Manager
3 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Lead
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) .NET
2 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET
2 4 (18.18%) CSS
3 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
3 3 (13.64%) Entity Framework
3 3 (13.64%) HTML
4 2 (9.09%) REST
4 2 (9.09%) WPF
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (4.55%) CSS3
5 1 (4.55%) HTML5
5 1 (4.55%) Kafka
5 1 (4.55%) ML.NET
5 1 (4.55%) PySpark
5 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.55%) Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) Data Fabric
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (4.55%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) SCADA
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
1 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (59.09%) Analytics
3 12 (54.55%) AI
3 12 (54.55%) Visualisation
4 11 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (45.45%) Decision-Making
5 10 (45.45%) Machine Learning
6 9 (40.91%) Data Science
6 9 (40.91%) Data Visualisation
6 9 (40.91%) Storytelling
7 7 (31.82%) Predictive Modelling
7 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (18.18%) Agile
10 3 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
10 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
10 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
10 3 (13.64%) ETL
10 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (13.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) R
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) C#
4 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 2 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) ACMT
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Autotask
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Apple
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Datto
4 1 (4.55%) Sophos
4 1 (4.55%) Veeam