SQL Jobs in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 18 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 128 286 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 10.19% 9.20% 16.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.96% 25.93% 37.37%
Number of salaries quoted 93 232 258
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,975 £36,843
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £57,655
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -4.60% +15.31%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,450 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £87,250 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

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 493 1,103 1,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 39.25% 35.48% 43.26%
Number of salaries quoted 395 927 739
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,886 £73,886 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,750 £87,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Bristol.

Salary trend for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Bristol region over the 6 months to 10 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Avonmouth -2 1 £42,500 - 1
SQL
South West

SQL
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 4 (3.13%) Apache
2 3 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.56%) SAS
4 1 (0.78%) CMS
4 1 (0.78%) IIS
4 1 (0.78%) Luigi
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (42.97%) Azure
2 40 (31.25%) AWS
3 32 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 17 (13.28%) GCP
5 12 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.03%) GitHub
7 6 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (4.69%) SaaS
7 6 (4.69%) Snowflake
8 5 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.13%) IaaS
9 4 (3.13%) OCI
9 4 (3.13%) Serverless
10 3 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) Firewall
1 4 (3.13%) SD-WAN
1 4 (3.13%) VPN
1 4 (3.13%) WAN
2 3 (2.34%) LAN
2 3 (2.34%) MPLS
2 3 (2.34%) Unified Communications
2 3 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.56%) DNS
3 2 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.78%) FTP
4 1 (0.78%) HTTP
4 1 (0.78%) SMTP
4 1 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.88%) NoSQL
1 28 (21.88%) Power BI
2 17 (13.28%) Big Data
2 17 (13.28%) Tableau
3 15 (11.72%) Relational Database
4 13 (10.16%) SQL Server
5 11 (8.59%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.69%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (3.91%) BigQuery
8 5 (3.91%) Data Hub
8 5 (3.91%) Looker
9 4 (3.13%) Metadata
9 4 (3.13%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.34%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (2.34%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (21.09%) Git
2 17 (13.28%) GitLab
3 10 (7.81%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.13%) Maven
5 3 (2.34%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.34%) Eclipse RCP
5 3 (2.34%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.56%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.56%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (1.56%) JUnit
6 2 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.56%) Postman
6 2 (1.56%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.56%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.78%) JIRA
7 1 (0.78%) Log4Net
7 1 (0.78%) RStudio
7 1 (0.78%) SoapUI
General
1 66 (51.56%) Finance
2 43 (33.59%) Banking
3 26 (20.31%) Social Skills
4 19 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.47%) Retail
6 5 (3.91%) Electronics
6 5 (3.91%) Marketing
7 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Automotive
8 2 (1.56%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.56%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.78%) Back Office
9 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (24.22%) Developer
2 29 (22.66%) Analyst
3 25 (19.53%) Software Engineer
4 18 (14.06%) Data Analyst
5 17 (13.28%) Senior
6 15 (11.72%) Lead
7 14 (10.94%) Data Engineer
8 11 (8.59%) Software Developer
9 6 (4.69%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Data Manager
10 5 (3.91%) Provisioning Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.91%) Senior Software Developer
11 4 (3.13%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Junior
11 4 (3.13%) Lead Developer
12 3 (2.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.41%) React
2 16 (12.50%) .NET
3 15 (11.72%) REST
4 14 (10.94%) RESTful
5 13 (10.16%) .NET Framework
5 13 (10.16%) CSS
5 13 (10.16%) Node.js
6 12 (9.38%) .NET Core
6 12 (9.38%) GraphQL
6 12 (9.38%) HTML
7 8 (6.25%) Entity Framework
8 7 (5.47%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.47%) ASP.NET
9 6 (4.69%) Spring
9 6 (4.69%) Tailwind CSS
9 6 (4.69%) Web Services
10 5 (3.91%) JSON
11 4 (3.13%) Express.js
11 4 (3.13%) OAuth
11 4 (3.13%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.47%) Algorithms
1 7 (5.47%) N-Tier
2 6 (4.69%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.56%) PKI
6 2 (1.56%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.56%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.78%) CUDA
7 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.78%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.78%) NHS
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.59%) Windows
2 8 (6.25%) Linux
3 4 (3.13%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.34%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.56%) Unix
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.91%) CI/CD
2 36 (28.13%) Analytics
2 36 (28.13%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (26.56%) Agile
4 32 (25.00%) DevOps
4 32 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 32 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 26 (20.31%) Data Modelling
6 23 (17.97%) Mentoring
7 21 (16.41%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (16.41%) Test Automation
8 19 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (13.28%) Data Analytics
9 17 (13.28%) Predictive Modelling
10 16 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 16 (12.50%) ETL
10 16 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (12.50%) Mathematics
10 16 (12.50%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.78%) Java
2 29 (22.66%) Python
3 24 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 17 (13.28%) C#
5 15 (11.72%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.47%) R
7 6 (4.69%) Bash
7 6 (4.69%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.13%) C++
8 4 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.34%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.56%) Go
10 2 (1.56%) Julia
10 2 (1.56%) VBA
10 2 (1.56%) XAML
11 1 (0.78%) Ada
11 1 (0.78%) Bicep
11 1 (0.78%) Dart
11 1 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (17.97%) Degree
2 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (2.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.78%) ACCA
4 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.78%) CIMA
4 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.56%) NIST
3 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (14.84%) Docker
2 3 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (2.34%) vSphere
3 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.81%) Terraform
3 3 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.56%) Ansible
4 2 (1.56%) Argo
4 2 (1.56%) Graylog
4 2 (1.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.25%) Oracle
3 7 (5.47%) Google
4 5 (3.91%) Databricks
5 4 (3.13%) F5
6 3 (2.34%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.34%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (2.34%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.34%) VMware
6 3 (2.34%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.56%) Facebook
7 2 (1.56%) Fiserv
7 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.56%) Splunk
7 2 (1.56%) TSYS
7 2 (1.56%) UiPath
8 1 (0.78%) Meraki
8 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.78%) PayPal
8 1 (0.78%) SnapLogic