SQL Server Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 20 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 +47
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1 53 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedfordshire 0.33% 12.21% 9.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.63% 41.41% 45.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1 49 20
10th Percentile - - £36,250
25th Percentile £82,500 £43,750 £39,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £53,000 £60,250
90th Percentile - £59,000 £61,250
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 38 128 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 12.62% 29.49% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15 86 42
10th Percentile - - £39,800
25th Percentile £30,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £56,000 £53,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £76,000 £83,250
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% -3.64% -4.35%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 +7 1 £85,000 +21.43% 1
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) People Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA