SQL Server Jobs in Bedfordshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 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 30 31 38
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 26 20 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 4.55% 4.27% 7.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 57.78% 32.26% 34.59%
Number of salaries quoted 15 19 40
10th Percentile - £35,750 £36,750
25th Percentile - £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £64,000
East of England median annual salary £44,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% +5.26%

All Database and 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 45 62 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 7.87% 13.25% 21.95%
Number of salaries quoted 24 56 86
10th Percentile £46,625 £30,625 £36,500
25th Percentile £51,625 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £49,020 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.12% -10.87% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,188 £67,500
90th Percentile - £78,750 £78,750
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +9.52%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Bedfordshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Bedfordshire

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Bedfordshire

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Bedfordshire

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 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
Bedford +3 7 £53,000 -7.83% 2
Luton +11 6 £70,000 +47.37% 2
Dunstable - 3 £90,000 -
Henlow - 1 - -
Leighton Buzzard - 1 - -
Biggleswade - 1 - -
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
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 (38.46%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) GCP
3 7 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) dbt
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DHCP
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
1 1 (3.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (26.92%) Power BI
3 6 (23.08%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.69%) Apache Hive
4 2 (7.69%) Big Data
4 2 (7.69%) OLTP
4 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Bitbucket
1 10 (38.46%) Cucumber
1 10 (38.46%) GitLab
1 10 (38.46%) JIRA
1 10 (38.46%) Maven
1 10 (38.46%) Selenium
1 10 (38.46%) SonarQube
1 10 (38.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (65.38%) Finance
2 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (38.46%) Banking
3 10 (38.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (23.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Software Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) .NET Developer
2 7 (26.92%) .NET Software Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Software Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Analyst
3 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) Kafka
2 10 (38.46%) CSS
2 10 (38.46%) Hibernate
2 10 (38.46%) HTML
2 10 (38.46%) JPA
2 10 (38.46%) React
2 10 (38.46%) Redux
2 10 (38.46%) Spring
2 10 (38.46%) Spring Boot
3 7 (26.92%) .NET
3 7 (26.92%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (38.46%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) DevOps
2 13 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 12 (46.15%) Agile
4 11 (42.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 10 (38.46%) Clean Code
5 10 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 10 (38.46%) Front End Development
5 10 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (38.46%) Microservices
5 10 (38.46%) Performance Optimisation
5 10 (38.46%) SDLC
5 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 10 (38.46%) TDD
5 10 (38.46%) Test Automation
6 9 (34.62%) Scrum
7 8 (30.77%) Data Modelling
8 7 (26.92%) Customer Service
8 7 (26.92%) ETL
8 7 (26.92%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) SQL
2 10 (38.46%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Degree
2 7 (26.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) QA
2 6 (23.08%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) SCCM
2 1 (3.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Solace
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 6 (23.08%) Infor
3 6 (23.08%) SAP
4 2 (7.69%) Databricks
5 1 (3.85%) Ab Initio
5 1 (3.85%) arcserve
5 1 (3.85%) Aruba
5 1 (3.85%) Avaya
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco
5 1 (3.85%) Citrix
5 1 (3.85%) Linksys
5 1 (3.85%) VMware