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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 406 82 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 69.88% 18.34% 21.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 91.24% 61.19% 49.82%
Number of salaries quoted 24 40 36
10th Percentile £35,375 £28,150 £44,375
25th Percentile £53,000 £36,250 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £44,750 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.67% -23.83% +30.56%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £60,000
90th Percentile - £91,250 £78,750
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% +11.83%

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 445 134 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 76.59% 29.98% 43.01%
Number of salaries quoted 51 78 100
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,850 £27,750
25th Percentile £50,967 £36,250 £37,432
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £53,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £69,500 £67,500 £71,563
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -12.04% +8.00%

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 19 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 19 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 0 25 £64,000 +6.67% 66
Bedford +1 21 £53,000 +43.24% 36
Dunstable - 10 - - 2
Leighton Buzzard - 8 - -
Shefford +2 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 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.25%) Apache
2 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 52 (12.81%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.72%) Infor M3
2 2 (0.49%) Primavera
2 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (3.69%) Azure
2 8 (1.97%) Power Platform
3 7 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (0.74%) AWS
6 1 (0.25%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (0.25%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (0.25%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.25%) GCP
6 1 (0.25%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.25%) PaaS
6 1 (0.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 275 (67.73%) 5G
1 275 (67.73%) Bluetooth
1 275 (67.73%) GSM
1 275 (67.73%) LTE
1 275 (67.73%) UMTS
1 275 (67.73%) Wi-Fi
1 275 (67.73%) Wireless
2 13 (3.20%) TCP/IP
2 13 (3.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.20%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.97%) Power BI
3 7 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.48%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.49%) Tableau
6 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 13 (3.20%) Cucumber
1 13 (3.20%) Robot Framework
2 4 (0.99%) JIRA
3 1 (0.25%) Git
General
1 280 (68.97%) Electronics
2 89 (21.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 84 (20.69%) Manufacturing
4 36 (8.87%) Social Skills
5 15 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.20%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.71%) Finance
8 7 (1.72%) Law
9 6 (1.48%) Legal
10 4 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.74%) Marketing
11 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Aviation
12 2 (0.49%) Banking
12 2 (0.49%) Games
12 2 (0.49%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.25%) Police
13 1 (0.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 333 (82.02%) Test Engineer
2 278 (68.47%) Electronics Engineer
3 275 (67.73%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 45 (11.08%) Electrical Engineer
4 45 (11.08%) Safety Engineer
5 35 (8.62%) Senior
6 13 (3.20%) Test Automation Engineer
7 8 (1.97%) Trainer
8 7 (1.72%) .NET Developer
8 7 (1.72%) .NET Software Developer
8 7 (1.72%) Analyst
8 7 (1.72%) Developer
8 7 (1.72%) Software Developer
9 6 (1.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (1.48%) Senior Electrical Engineer
9 6 (1.48%) Senior Safety Engineer
9 6 (1.48%) Senior Test Engineer
10 4 (0.99%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
10 4 (0.99%) Infrastructure Manager
11 3 (0.74%) Electronics Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.72%) .NET
1 7 (1.72%) .NET Framework
2 2 (0.49%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 275 (67.73%) Driving Licence
2 15 (3.69%) 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 (0.49%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.68%) Linux
2 17 (4.19%) Windows
3 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (79.80%) Mentoring
2 294 (72.41%) Coaching
3 281 (69.21%) Validation
4 275 (67.73%) Customer Requirements
4 275 (67.73%) Test Strategy
4 275 (67.73%) Verification and Validation
5 45 (11.08%) Safety Engineering
6 28 (6.90%) CAD
6 28 (6.90%) Design for Manufacturing
7 20 (4.93%) Computer Science
7 20 (4.93%) DevOps
8 19 (4.68%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (3.20%) System Testing
9 13 (3.20%) Test Automation
9 13 (3.20%) Test Management
10 10 (2.46%) Data Modelling
11 9 (2.22%) Analytics
12 8 (1.97%) Customer Service
12 8 (1.97%) Data Analytics
13 7 (1.72%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (3.94%) Python
2 13 (3.20%) Bash
2 13 (3.20%) JavaScript
2 13 (3.20%) PowerShell
3 10 (2.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 280 (68.97%) HND
2 12 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.48%) PhD
5 3 (0.74%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.74%) PMP
5 3 (0.74%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.74%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.25%) CCSP
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.25%) CISM
7 1 (0.25%) CISSP
7 1 (0.25%) MBA
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.59%) QA
2 6 (1.48%) GxP
3 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.49%) GDPR
4 2 (0.49%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.49%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.97%) SAP
3 7 (1.72%) Infor
4 6 (1.48%) PayPal
5 4 (0.99%) Cisco
5 4 (0.99%) Google
6 3 (0.74%) EMC
7 2 (0.49%) BMC
7 2 (0.49%) JD Edwards
7 2 (0.49%) Remedy
7 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow