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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 63 62
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 31 71 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.76% 2.91% 4.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.67% 21.71% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25 26 68
10th Percentile £35,500 £33,250 £35,733
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £48,750 £64,375 £64,063
90th Percentile £54,000 £74,375 £85,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +7.69%

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 166 327 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 14.76% 13.40% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 128 189 375
10th Percentile £36,100 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,698 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,813 £78,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,148
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.27% +10.30%

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

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 19 September 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 6 (19.35%) IIS
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.45%) NServiceBus
3 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.23%) Apache
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Superset
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) Azure
2 10 (32.26%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (19.35%) AWS
4 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.45%) GCP
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub
5 2 (6.45%) IaaS
5 2 (6.45%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.23%) dbt
6 1 (3.23%) Fivetran
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) Firewall
1 8 (25.81%) Wireless
2 6 (19.35%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (19.35%) DHCP
2 6 (19.35%) DNS
2 6 (19.35%) IPsec
2 6 (19.35%) VLAN
2 6 (19.35%) VoIP
2 6 (19.35%) VPN
3 3 (9.68%) SAN
4 2 (6.45%) LAN
4 2 (6.45%) SD-WAN
4 2 (6.45%) WAN
4 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (16.13%) MS Access
3 4 (12.90%) Power BI
4 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
4 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.45%) Tableau
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (3.23%) DB2
6 1 (3.23%) Looker
6 1 (3.23%) Metadata
6 1 (3.23%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) GitLab
2 2 (6.45%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (48.39%) Finance
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Marketing
3 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
4 5 (16.13%) Electronics
4 5 (16.13%) Manufacturing
4 5 (16.13%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.45%) Law
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Back Office
6 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
6 1 (3.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) IT Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Senior
3 6 (19.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) IT Support
3 6 (19.35%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior IT Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior IT Support
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Support Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Support Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (16.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 5 (16.13%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Consultant
4 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) .NET
2 5 (16.13%) .NET Core
2 5 (16.13%) .NET Framework
3 4 (12.90%) REST
4 3 (9.68%) RESTful
5 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
5 2 (6.45%) CSS
5 2 (6.45%) HTML
5 2 (6.45%) OAuth
5 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
5 2 (6.45%) OpenID
6 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
6 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.23%) NumPy
6 1 (3.23%) Pandas
6 1 (3.23%) React
6 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
6 1 (3.23%) Vue
6 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Clustering
2 5 (16.13%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.23%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.23%) NHS
4 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Windows
2 8 (25.81%) Windows Server
3 6 (19.35%) Linux
3 6 (19.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Mentoring
2 10 (32.26%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (29.03%) Analytics
4 8 (25.81%) Coaching
4 8 (25.81%) Containerisation
4 8 (25.81%) Server Management
5 7 (22.58%) Collaborative Culture
5 7 (22.58%) Microservices
5 7 (22.58%) Migration
6 6 (19.35%) Data Analysis
6 6 (19.35%) DevOps
6 6 (19.35%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (19.35%) IT Strategy
6 6 (19.35%) ITIL
6 6 (19.35%) Project Management
6 6 (19.35%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 6 (19.35%) Server Building
6 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) Customer Service
7 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
3 5 (16.13%) C#
3 5 (16.13%) PL/SQL
3 5 (16.13%) VBA
4 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.68%) Python
4 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.23%) C
6 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.23%) Java
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Degree
2 6 (19.35%) ACMT
2 6 (19.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (19.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (16.13%) QA
3 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Docker
2 8 (25.81%) Hyper-V
3 6 (19.35%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
5 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (6.45%) vSphere
5 2 (6.45%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (19.35%) Autotask
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (19.35%) vCenter Server
3 2 (6.45%) Ansible
3 2 (6.45%) SCCM
3 2 (6.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (51.61%) Microsoft
2 9 (29.03%) Oracle
3 8 (25.81%) VMware
4 6 (19.35%) Apple
4 6 (19.35%) Cisco
4 6 (19.35%) Datto
4 6 (19.35%) SAP
4 6 (19.35%) Sophos
4 6 (19.35%) Veeam
5 2 (6.45%) Aruba
5 2 (6.45%) Citrix
6 1 (3.23%) Alteryx
6 1 (3.23%) Cognos
6 1 (3.23%) Databricks
6 1 (3.23%) Google
6 1 (3.23%) HubSpot
6 1 (3.23%) OpenAI
6 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.23%) Talend
6 1 (3.23%) Zoho