Software Engineering Jobs in Bedfordshire

Software Engineering
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering 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 42 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +14
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 12 26 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.12% 5.80% 12.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 7.60% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2 18 46
10th Percentile £68,250 £35,125 £45,625
25th Percentile £69,375 £39,850 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £44,020 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +70.38% -19.96% -10.20%
75th Percentile £81,875 £64,063 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £73,750
East of England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 540 342 637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 95.24% 76.34% 98.45%
Number of salaries quoted 94 239 291
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,000 £35,764
25th Percentile £38,000 £33,139 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,484 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £66,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,375 £93,750 £83,750
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% +10.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Bedfordshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Bedfordshire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Bedfordshire 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
Luton +2 2 £75,000 +25.00% 24
Bedford +3 1 - - 19
Henlow - 1 - -
Dunstable - 1 - -
Biggleswade - 1 - -
Leighton Buzzard - 1 - -
Software Engineering
East of England

Software Engineering
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 10 (83.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 10 (83.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Bitbucket
1 10 (83.33%) Cucumber
1 10 (83.33%) GitLab
1 10 (83.33%) JIRA
1 10 (83.33%) Maven
1 10 (83.33%) Selenium
1 10 (83.33%) SonarQube
1 10 (83.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (83.33%) Banking
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
1 10 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering Team Leader
2 1 (8.33%) Software Team Leader
2 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) CSS
1 10 (83.33%) Hibernate
1 10 (83.33%) HTML
1 10 (83.33%) JPA
1 10 (83.33%) Kafka
1 10 (83.33%) React
1 10 (83.33%) Redux
1 10 (83.33%) Spring
1 10 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (83.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) SDLC
2 10 (83.33%) Agile
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (83.33%) Clean Code
2 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 10 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Front End Development
2 10 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (83.33%) Microservices
2 10 (83.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 10 (83.33%) TDD
2 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) OOD
3 1 (8.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 10 (83.33%) Java
2 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) C
3 1 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Solace