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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 21 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 +7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 117 276 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 9.89% 8.75% 16.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.83% 25.16% 38.15%
Number of salaries quoted 85 221 267
10th Percentile £25,313 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,525 £72,433 £71,250
90th Percentile £89,000 £85,000 £85,500
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 453 1,097 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 38.29% 34.78% 43.29%
Number of salaries quoted 357 920 726
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,582 £37,939
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £88,000 £87,500 £90,000
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 22 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 22 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 (3.42%) Apache
2 3 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.71%) SAS
4 1 (0.85%) CMS
4 1 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) Luigi
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 50 (42.74%) Azure
2 37 (31.62%) AWS
3 28 (23.93%) Power Platform
4 13 (11.11%) GCP
5 12 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.98%) Snowflake
7 5 (4.27%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.27%) GitHub
7 5 (4.27%) SaaS
8 4 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (3.42%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.42%) IaaS
8 4 (3.42%) Serverless
9 3 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.71%) Apigee
10 2 (1.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) Firewall
1 4 (3.42%) SD-WAN
1 4 (3.42%) VPN
1 4 (3.42%) WAN
2 3 (2.56%) LAN
2 3 (2.56%) MPLS
2 3 (2.56%) Unified Communications
2 3 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.71%) DNS
3 2 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.85%) FTP
4 1 (0.85%) HTTP
4 1 (0.85%) SMTP
4 1 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.37%) Power BI
2 24 (20.51%) NoSQL
3 17 (14.53%) Big Data
4 13 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 13 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 13 (11.11%) Tableau
5 11 (9.40%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.13%) MongoDB
7 6 (5.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (4.27%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.27%) Data Hub
8 5 (4.27%) Looker
9 4 (3.42%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (3.42%) Metadata
9 4 (3.42%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.56%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 22 (18.80%) Git
2 13 (11.11%) GitLab
3 8 (6.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.56%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.56%) Eclipse RCP
4 3 (2.56%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.71%) Fiddler
5 2 (1.71%) JUnit
5 2 (1.71%) Maven
5 2 (1.71%) Postman
5 2 (1.71%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.71%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.71%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.85%) JIRA
6 1 (0.85%) Log4Net
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.85%) SoapUI
General
1 56 (47.86%) Finance
2 34 (29.06%) Banking
3 22 (18.80%) Social Skills
4 17 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.98%) Retail
6 5 (4.27%) Electronics
7 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.71%) Automotive
8 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.71%) Marketing
8 2 (1.71%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.85%) Back Office
9 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Legal
9 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (26.50%) Developer
2 24 (20.51%) Analyst
3 19 (16.24%) Software Engineer
4 16 (13.68%) Data Analyst
5 15 (12.82%) Lead
6 14 (11.97%) Data Engineer
7 13 (11.11%) Senior
8 10 (8.55%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Data Manager
10 5 (4.27%) Provisioning Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.42%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Junior
11 4 (3.42%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.42%) Senior Software Developer
11 4 (3.42%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (2.56%) Data Scientist
12 3 (2.56%) Junior Developer
12 3 (2.56%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.24%) React
2 16 (13.68%) .NET
3 14 (11.97%) REST
3 14 (11.97%) RESTful
4 13 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 13 (11.11%) CSS
5 12 (10.26%) .NET Core
5 12 (10.26%) HTML
6 11 (9.40%) Node.js
7 10 (8.55%) GraphQL
8 8 (6.84%) Entity Framework
9 7 (5.98%) AngularJS
9 7 (5.98%) ASP.NET
10 6 (5.13%) Tailwind CSS
11 5 (4.27%) JSON
12 4 (3.42%) HTML5
12 4 (3.42%) Next.js
12 4 (3.42%) OAuth
12 4 (3.42%) OpenID
12 4 (3.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.98%) Data Structures
1 7 (5.98%) N-Tier
2 5 (4.27%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.42%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.71%) PKI
5 2 (1.71%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.71%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.71%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.85%) CUDA
6 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.85%) FMCG
6 1 (0.85%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.85%) NHS
6 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.40%) Windows
2 8 (6.84%) Linux
3 4 (3.42%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.56%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.71%) Unix
6 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.21%) Agile
2 32 (27.35%) Analytics
2 32 (27.35%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (26.50%) CI/CD
4 30 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (24.79%) DevOps
6 28 (23.93%) Visualisation
7 26 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 23 (19.66%) Data Modelling
9 20 (17.09%) Mentoring
9 20 (17.09%) Test Automation
10 19 (16.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (13.68%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (13.68%) Mathematics
12 15 (12.82%) Microservices
13 14 (11.97%) Data Analytics
13 14 (11.97%) Data Extraction
13 14 (11.97%) ETL
13 14 (11.97%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (11.97%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.08%) Java
2 24 (20.51%) Python
3 19 (16.24%) JavaScript
4 16 (13.68%) C#
5 12 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.27%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.42%) Bash
7 4 (3.42%) C++
7 4 (3.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.42%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.42%) R
8 3 (2.56%) VBA
9 2 (1.71%) Go
9 2 (1.71%) Julia
9 2 (1.71%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.71%) XAML
10 1 (0.85%) Bicep
10 1 (0.85%) Dart
10 1 (0.85%) Rust
10 1 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (19.66%) Degree
2 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (2.56%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.71%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.85%) ACCA
4 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.85%) CIMA
4 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.71%) NIST
3 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 17 (14.53%) Docker
2 3 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (2.56%) vSphere
3 2 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.55%) Terraform
3 3 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.71%) Ansible
4 2 (1.71%) Argo
4 2 (1.71%) Graylog
4 2 (1.71%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (11.97%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.98%) Google
3 6 (5.13%) Oracle
4 5 (4.27%) Databricks
5 4 (3.42%) F5
6 3 (2.56%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.56%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (2.56%) Facebook
6 3 (2.56%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.56%) VMware
6 3 (2.56%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.71%) Fiserv
7 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.71%) Splunk
7 2 (1.71%) TSYS
7 2 (1.71%) UiPath
8 1 (0.85%) IFS
8 1 (0.85%) Meraki
8 1 (0.85%) SAP
8 1 (0.85%) Teradata