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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 54 61
Rank change year-on-year -40 +7 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 32 30 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.00% 2.71% 2.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.48% 18.87% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 26 24 24
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,375 £32,950
25th Percentile £52,125 £36,250 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.35% -14.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £49,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,125 £54,250 £67,625
South West median annual salary £47,500 £45,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.83% -16.82% +4.76%

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 221 159 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 6.90% 14.39% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 157 123 181
10th Percentile £39,015 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,931 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.68%

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 22 September 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 (6.25%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 5 (15.63%) Power Automate
3 5 (15.63%) PowerApps
4 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
5 2 (6.25%) AWS
5 2 (6.25%) Azure AI
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (18.75%) Power BI
2 5 (15.63%) MySQL
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle Database
2 5 (15.63%) Power Query
2 5 (15.63%) Star Schema
3 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Retail
4 2 (6.25%) Electronics
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) SQL Developer
2 7 (21.88%) SQL Server Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) DBA
3 5 (15.63%) Financial Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) MySQL DBA
3 5 (15.63%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (15.63%) Power BI Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Graduate
5 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Graduate Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Graduate Software Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Junior
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (6.25%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (34.38%) .NET
2 6 (18.75%) AngularJS
3 5 (15.63%) React
3 5 (15.63%) REST
4 3 (9.38%) ASP.NET
4 3 (9.38%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.25%) Avalonia
5 2 (6.25%) Entity Framework
5 2 (6.25%) RESTful
5 2 (6.25%) WPF
6 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.13%) Flask
6 1 (3.13%) JWT
6 1 (3.13%) Kafka
6 1 (3.13%) Playwright
6 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.13%) Terraform
6 1 (3.13%) Vitest
6 1 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
2 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (6.25%) Android
3 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Agile
2 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
2 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
3 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (21.88%) Actionable Insight
4 7 (21.88%) AI
4 7 (21.88%) ETL
5 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (15.63%) Analytical Thinking
6 5 (15.63%) Dashboard Development
6 5 (15.63%) Data Analysis
6 5 (15.63%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (15.63%) Process Improvement
6 5 (15.63%) User Experience
6 5 (15.63%) Visualisation
7 4 (12.50%) Analytics
7 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) SQL
2 13 (40.63%) C#
3 5 (15.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (9.38%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) PHP
5 2 (6.25%) C++
5 2 (6.25%) Python
5 2 (6.25%) XAML
6 1 (3.13%) Bicep
6 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Ansible
1 5 (15.63%) Progress Chef
1 5 (15.63%) Puppet
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Foundry