Degree Jobs in Bedfordshire

Academic Degree
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Degree 403 81 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 70.45% 17.31% 22.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 92.01% 62.31% 49.81%
Number of salaries quoted 17 40 35
10th Percentile £48,450 £28,150 £44,000
25th Percentile - £36,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £44,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% -25.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 -
90th Percentile - £91,250 £79,000
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -12.84% +17.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bedfordshire

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 438 130 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 76.57% 27.78% 44.39%
Number of salaries quoted 40 75 96
10th Percentile £43,625 £28,700 £27,750
25th Percentile £50,967 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £74,750 £81,250 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +10.00%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Bedfordshire

Degree
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in Bedfordshire.

Salary trend for Degree in Bedfordshire

Degree
Salary Histogram in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Degree in Bedfordshire

Degree
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Luton +1 25 £70,000 +16.67% 34
Bedford 0 19 £53,000 +43.24% 22
Dunstable - 10 - - 1
Leighton Buzzard - 8 - -
Shefford +3 4 - -
Degree
East of England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 (0.25%) Apache
1 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 48 (11.91%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Infor M3
2 2 (0.50%) Primavera
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (3.47%) Azure
2 7 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (1.49%) Power Platform
4 4 (0.99%) AWS
4 4 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.50%) GCP
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon Alexa
6 1 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.25%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.25%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (0.25%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (0.25%) Firebase
6 1 (0.25%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 275 (68.24%) 5G
1 275 (68.24%) Bluetooth
1 275 (68.24%) GSM
1 275 (68.24%) LTE
1 275 (68.24%) UMTS
1 275 (68.24%) Wi-Fi
1 275 (68.24%) Wireless
2 13 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 13 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.49%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.49%) Power BI
4 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (3.23%) Cucumber
1 13 (3.23%) Robot Framework
2 5 (1.24%) JIRA
3 2 (0.50%) Git
General
1 279 (69.23%) Electronics
2 89 (22.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 84 (20.84%) Manufacturing
4 32 (7.94%) Social Skills
5 16 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.48%) Finance
8 6 (1.49%) Law
8 6 (1.49%) Legal
9 3 (0.74%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.74%) Marketing
9 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.50%) Aviation
10 2 (0.50%) Banking
10 2 (0.50%) Games
11 1 (0.25%) Automotive
11 1 (0.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 333 (82.63%) Test Engineer
2 278 (68.98%) Electronics Engineer
3 275 (68.24%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 45 (11.17%) Electrical Engineer
4 45 (11.17%) Safety Engineer
5 35 (8.68%) Senior
6 13 (3.23%) Test Automation Engineer
7 10 (2.48%) Trainer
8 8 (1.99%) Developer
9 7 (1.74%) .NET Developer
9 7 (1.74%) .NET Software Developer
9 7 (1.74%) Analyst
9 7 (1.74%) Software Developer
10 6 (1.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 6 (1.49%) Senior Electrical Engineer
10 6 (1.49%) Senior Safety Engineer
10 6 (1.49%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (0.99%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
11 4 (0.99%) Infrastructure Manager
12 3 (0.74%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.74%) .NET
1 7 (1.74%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.25%) CSS
2 1 (0.25%) HTML
2 1 (0.25%) Laravel
2 1 (0.25%) React
2 1 (0.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 275 (68.24%) Driving Licence
2 13 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (0.74%) Life Science
4 3 (0.74%) Management Information System
4 3 (0.74%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.50%) IoT
6 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.25%) Home Automation
6 1 (0.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.23%) Linux
1 13 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (79.90%) Mentoring
2 294 (72.95%) Coaching
3 281 (69.73%) Validation
4 275 (68.24%) Customer Requirements
4 275 (68.24%) Test Strategy
4 275 (68.24%) Verification and Validation
5 45 (11.17%) Safety Engineering
6 28 (6.95%) CAD
6 28 (6.95%) Design for Manufacturing
7 21 (5.21%) Computer Science
7 21 (5.21%) DevOps
8 17 (4.22%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (3.23%) System Testing
9 13 (3.23%) Test Automation
9 13 (3.23%) Test Management
10 11 (2.73%) Conversational UI
11 10 (2.48%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (2.48%) Data Modelling
12 7 (1.74%) ERP
12 7 (1.74%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 14 (3.47%) JavaScript
1 14 (3.47%) Python
2 13 (3.23%) Bash
2 13 (3.23%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.23%) SQL
4 1 (0.25%) Java
4 1 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 280 (69.48%) HND
2 11 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.48%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.48%) PhD
4 3 (0.74%) PMI Certification
4 3 (0.74%) PMP
5 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.67%) QA
2 6 (1.49%) GxP
3 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.50%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.50%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.48%) PayPal
3 8 (1.99%) SAP
4 7 (1.74%) Infor
5 5 (1.24%) Google
6 4 (0.99%) Cisco
7 3 (0.74%) EMC
8 2 (0.50%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle