SQL Server Jobs in Bedford

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedford requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 12 45
Rank change year-on-year +4 +33 -12
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 9 15 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 13.43% 10.14% 2.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 64.29% 55.56% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 6
10th Percentile £49,625 £37,370 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,250 £48,750 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £57,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -13.21% +47.22%
75th Percentile - £61,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £53,975 - -
Bedfordshire median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year -7.83% +6.98% +19.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Bedford

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 Bedford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 14 27 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 20.90% 18.24% 18.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13 27 34
10th Percentile £39,250 - £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £61,250 - -
Bedfordshire median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% +10.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Bedford

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Bedford

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Bedford

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedford 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) .NET Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) .NET Software Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# VB.NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Support
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) .NET
2 6 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) JPA
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) Redux
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 6 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 6 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) SDLC
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
3 1 (11.11%) TDD
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) C++
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Solace