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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 72 48
Rank change year-on-year +2 -24 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 26 34 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.26% 2.39% 5.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.77% 13.39% 25.25%
Number of salaries quoted 23 14 95
10th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £48,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £71,991 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.55% +15.19% +31.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,886 £85,000
90th Percentile - £79,250 £96,539
South West median annual salary £42,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.65% +4.55% +10.00%

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 155 254 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 7.53% 17.86% 23.06%
Number of salaries quoted 110 151 336
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £39,250 £45,000 £46,292
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +27.34%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,443 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,625 £85,000 £91,934
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%

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 7 January 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 (15.38%) IIS
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Superset
2 1 (3.85%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) dbt
5 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.85%) Fivetran
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) DNS
1 5 (19.23%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (15.38%) DHCP
2 4 (15.38%) IPsec
2 4 (15.38%) VLAN
2 4 (15.38%) VoIP
2 4 (15.38%) VPN
2 4 (15.38%) Wireless
3 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) Power BI
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (11.54%) MS Access
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.69%) Tableau
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data
5 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (3.85%) GIS
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.85%) Neo4j
5 1 (3.85%) OLAP
5 1 (3.85%) OLAP Cube
5 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Finance
3 6 (23.08%) Marketing
4 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
5 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (15.38%) Electronics
5 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
5 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.85%) Billing
6 1 (3.85%) Law
6 1 (3.85%) Local Government
6 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Data Scientist
2 5 (19.23%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 4 (15.38%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (15.38%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) IT Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) IT Support
3 4 (15.38%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Senior IT Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior IT Support
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
2 3 (11.54%) CSS
3 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.69%) Entity Framework
3 2 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.85%) CSS3
4 1 (3.85%) HTML5
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) ML.NET
4 1 (3.85%) NumPy
4 1 (3.85%) Pandas
4 1 (3.85%) PySpark
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Clustering
1 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.85%) IoT
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
1 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
2 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (61.54%) Analytics
3 12 (46.15%) AI
4 11 (42.31%) Visualisation
5 10 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (38.46%) Machine Learning
6 9 (34.62%) Decision-Making
7 8 (30.77%) Data Science
7 8 (30.77%) Data Visualisation
7 8 (30.77%) Storytelling
8 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
8 6 (23.08%) Predictive Modelling
8 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (19.23%) Data Analysis
9 5 (19.23%) ITIL
9 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
9 5 (19.23%) Project Management
10 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (15.38%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Python
1 11 (42.31%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) R
3 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
4 4 (15.38%) C#
5 3 (11.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.54%) PL/SQL
5 3 (11.54%) VBA
6 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) ACMT
1 4 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Data Quality
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 4 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
2 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 4 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Autotask
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (15.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 5 (19.23%) SAP
3 5 (19.23%) VMware
4 4 (15.38%) Apple
4 4 (15.38%) Cisco
4 4 (15.38%) Datto
4 4 (15.38%) Sophos
4 4 (15.38%) Veeam
5 1 (3.85%) Alteryx
5 1 (3.85%) Databricks
5 1 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) HubSpot
5 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.85%) Talend
5 1 (3.85%) Zoho
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