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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 61 44
Rank change year-on-year -3 -17 +12
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 26 54 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.45% 3.06% 6.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.99% 21.09% 23.35%
Number of salaries quoted 21 16 95
10th Percentile - £38,250 £36,440
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,188 £44,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £65,996 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -35.22% +10.81% +21.54%
75th Percentile £48,750 £73,886 £78,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £78,750 £91,934
South West median annual salary £42,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -26.09% +9.52% +5.00%

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 153 256 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 8.55% 14.50% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 112 135 357
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +20.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,375 £86,500 £91,934
South West median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +2.68% +12.00%

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 4 December 2025.

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 6 (23.08%) IIS
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Superset
3 1 (3.85%) NServiceBus
3 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
4 5 (19.23%) AWS
5 3 (11.54%) SaaS
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (7.69%) GCP
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) dbt
7 1 (3.85%) Fivetran
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.85%) IaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Firewall
2 7 (26.92%) DNS
2 7 (26.92%) Wireless
3 6 (23.08%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (23.08%) DHCP
3 6 (23.08%) IPsec
3 6 (23.08%) VLAN
3 6 (23.08%) VoIP
3 6 (23.08%) VPN
4 2 (7.69%) SAN
5 1 (3.85%) LAN
5 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.85%) WAN
5 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (26.92%) Power BI
2 5 (19.23%) 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%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.69%) Tableau
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data
5 1 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (3.85%) GIS
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.85%) Looker
5 1 (3.85%) Metadata
5 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.85%) Neo4j
5 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (50.00%) Finance
3 7 (26.92%) Marketing
4 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
5 5 (19.23%) Electronics
5 5 (19.23%) Manufacturing
5 5 (19.23%) Telecoms
6 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (7.69%) Law
8 1 (3.85%) Back Office
8 1 (3.85%) Billing
8 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.85%) Local Government
8 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) IT Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) IT Support
2 6 (23.08%) IT Support Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
2 6 (23.08%) Senior IT Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior IT Support
2 6 (23.08%) Senior Support Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (19.23%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 5 (19.23%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (19.23%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Consultant
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) .NET
1 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
1 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
1 2 (7.69%) CSS
1 2 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.85%) CSS3
2 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.85%) HTML5
2 1 (3.85%) Hugging Face
2 1 (3.85%) ML.NET
2 1 (3.85%) NumPy
2 1 (3.85%) Pandas
2 1 (3.85%) PySpark
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
2 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Clustering
1 6 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.85%) IoT
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 6 (23.08%) Linux
3 6 (23.08%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (46.15%) Analytics
3 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
3 8 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 7 (26.92%) AI
4 7 (26.92%) Collaborative Culture
4 7 (26.92%) Data Analysis
4 7 (26.92%) ITIL
4 7 (26.92%) Migration
4 7 (26.92%) Project Management
4 7 (26.92%) Server Management
5 6 (23.08%) Coaching
5 6 (23.08%) Data Analytics
5 6 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (23.08%) IT Strategy
5 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (23.08%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 6 (23.08%) Server Building
6 5 (19.23%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (19.23%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 5 (19.23%) PL/SQL
3 5 (19.23%) Python
3 5 (19.23%) VBA
4 3 (11.54%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.85%) C
6 1 (3.85%) Java
6 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) ACMT
1 6 (23.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (19.23%) Degree
3 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) Data Quality
2 6 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (23.08%) QA
3 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.85%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
2 7 (26.92%) Hyper-V
2 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.85%) vSphere
5 1 (3.85%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (23.08%) Autotask
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (23.08%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) Oracle
3 8 (30.77%) VMware
4 6 (23.08%) Apple
4 6 (23.08%) Cisco
4 6 (23.08%) Datto
4 6 (23.08%) SAP
4 6 (23.08%) Sophos
4 6 (23.08%) Veeam
5 1 (3.85%) Alteryx
5 1 (3.85%) Aruba
5 1 (3.85%) Citrix
5 1 (3.85%) Cognos
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
18 SQL Server jobs in Bristol