SQL Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 161 102 229
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 5.73% 9.34% 8.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.79% 40.48% 29.62%
Number of salaries quoted 119 76 152
10th Percentile £34,750 £38,125 £33,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,705 £79,750
South West median annual salary £52,500 £48,004 £51,500
% change year-on-year +9.37% -6.79% +3.00%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 426 252 773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 15.17% 23.08% 29.80%
Number of salaries quoted 340 187 619
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,125 £74,443
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £57,423 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.55% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
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 12 (7.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.86%) Apache
3 3 (1.86%) Confluence
4 2 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.24%) IIS
4 2 (1.24%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (14.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 71 (44.10%) Azure
2 46 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 24 (14.91%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (11.80%) Azure AI
4 19 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (11.18%) AWS
6 17 (10.56%) GitHub
7 13 (8.07%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (8.07%) Serverless
8 12 (7.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (7.45%) Azure Functions
8 12 (7.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (7.45%) IaaS
8 12 (7.45%) PaaS
9 9 (5.59%) Snowflake
10 7 (4.35%) SaaS
11 6 (3.73%) Power Automate
11 6 (3.73%) PowerApps
12 5 (3.11%) Google Play
13 4 (2.48%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.42%) VPN
2 8 (4.97%) WAN
3 1 (0.62%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (20.50%) Power BI
2 25 (15.53%) Tableau
3 19 (11.80%) SQL Server
4 18 (11.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (6.83%) NoSQL
6 10 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (5.59%) Big Data
7 9 (5.59%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.97%) MongoDB
9 6 (3.73%) Power Query
9 6 (3.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.73%) Star Schema
10 5 (3.11%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.48%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.86%) ClickHouse
13 2 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 26 (16.15%) Git
2 5 (3.11%) JIRA
3 4 (2.48%) Postman
4 2 (1.24%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.62%) MSTest
5 1 (0.62%) NUnit
5 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.62%) Vite
General
1 67 (41.61%) Social Skills
2 43 (26.71%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (16.15%) Finance
4 19 (11.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (8.07%) Law
6 10 (6.21%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.97%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.97%) Retail
8 6 (3.73%) Marketing
9 4 (2.48%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.24%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.62%) Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (37.89%) Analyst
2 33 (20.50%) Developer
3 25 (15.53%) Data Analyst
4 17 (10.56%) Junior
5 16 (9.94%) Data Engineer
6 13 (8.07%) Junior Analyst
6 13 (8.07%) Junior Data Analyst
6 13 (8.07%) Senior
6 13 (8.07%) SQL Developer
7 12 (7.45%) Architect
7 12 (7.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 12 (7.45%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (6.83%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 10 (6.21%) IT Support
9 10 (6.21%) Power BI Analyst
9 10 (6.21%) Support Analyst
10 9 (5.59%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (4.97%) IT Analyst
11 8 (4.97%) IT Support Analyst
11 8 (4.97%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.32%) .NET
2 13 (8.07%) React
2 13 (8.07%) RESTful
3 12 (7.45%) .NET Core
3 12 (7.45%) REST
4 8 (4.97%) ASP.NET
4 8 (4.97%) HTML
5 6 (3.73%) Blazor
5 6 (3.73%) CSS
5 6 (3.73%) GraphQL
5 6 (3.73%) PySpark
5 6 (3.73%) Web Services
6 5 (3.11%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (3.11%) Flutter
6 5 (3.11%) Kafka
6 5 (3.11%) ML.NET
6 5 (3.11%) React Native
7 4 (2.48%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (2.48%) Django
7 4 (2.48%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.45%) Podcast
1 12 (7.45%) Public Cloud
1 12 (7.45%) Security Posture
2 10 (6.21%) Mobile App
2 10 (6.21%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.97%) Client/Server
4 5 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.11%) iPhone
4 5 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.48%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.86%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.86%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.86%) IoT
6 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.53%) Windows
2 12 (7.45%) VMS
3 10 (6.21%) Android
4 5 (3.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.24%) Linux
5 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (44.10%) AI
2 67 (41.61%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (27.33%) Agile
4 39 (24.22%) Analytics
5 36 (22.36%) Business Intelligence
6 34 (21.12%) CI/CD
7 33 (20.50%) DevOps
8 29 (18.01%) Decision-Making
9 28 (17.39%) Machine Learning
10 23 (14.29%) Computer Science
11 22 (13.66%) Data Modelling
12 20 (12.42%) Data Science
12 20 (12.42%) User Experience
13 19 (11.80%) ETL
13 19 (11.80%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (11.80%) Software Engineering
14 18 (11.18%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (10.56%) Data Engineering
15 17 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 69 (42.86%) Python
2 39 (24.22%) JavaScript
3 31 (19.25%) C#
4 12 (7.45%) Bash
4 12 (7.45%) Bicep
4 12 (7.45%) Kusto Query Language
4 12 (7.45%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (4.35%) Java
6 7 (4.35%) R
7 6 (3.73%) PHP
8 5 (3.11%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.24%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.24%) VBA
10 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (15.53%) Azure Certification
2 17 (10.56%) Degree
3 12 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.73%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.73%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.18%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.35%) QA
3 4 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.24%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.24%) SLA
5 1 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.45%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (7.45%) vSphere
3 10 (6.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (11.18%) Terraform
2 9 (5.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.24%) Ansible
3 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 68 (42.24%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.07%) Databricks
3 12 (7.45%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (7.45%) VMware
4 8 (4.97%) Google
5 7 (4.35%) Oracle
6 5 (3.11%) Cognos
6 5 (3.11%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.24%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.62%) Foundry
8 1 (0.62%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.62%) Splunk