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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 63 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 -22 +15
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 24 38 136
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.01% 3.00% 5.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.27% 15.83% 28.69%
Number of salaries quoted 21 16 125
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £33,850
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 - £83,125 £91,934
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 139 240 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 5.87% 18.97% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 95 145 381
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +17.37%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £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 14 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 (8.33%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) GIS
3 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.17%) Neo4j
3 1 (4.17%) OLAP
3 1 (4.17%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Billing
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Local Government
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 8 (33.33%) Data Scientist
3 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Business Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Business Manager
5 1 (4.17%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Commercial Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Gen AI Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) .NET
2 6 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (25.00%) CSS
3 5 (20.83%) AngularJS
3 5 (20.83%) HTML
3 5 (20.83%) REST
4 4 (16.67%) Entity Framework
5 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
5 2 (8.33%) .NET Framework
5 2 (8.33%) WPF
6 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (4.17%) CSS3
6 1 (4.17%) Dapper ORM
6 1 (4.17%) HTML5
6 1 (4.17%) ML.NET
6 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (4.17%) IoT
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) SCADA
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Analytics
1 13 (54.17%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (50.00%) AI
2 12 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 11 (45.83%) Decision-Making
4 10 (41.67%) Data Science
4 10 (41.67%) Machine Learning
4 10 (41.67%) Storytelling
5 9 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
6 8 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
6 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.67%) Agile
8 4 (16.67%) API Development
9 3 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
9 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (12.50%) Scrum
10 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
10 2 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Python
2 9 (37.50%) C#
3 8 (33.33%) R
4 7 (29.17%) SQL
5 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
7 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) SAP
2 1 (4.17%) VMware