SQL Jobs in Bedfordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 29 50 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 5.02% 10.18% 21.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.77% 41.67% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 11 41 73
10th Percentile £45,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £35,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £48,039 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.71% -12.66% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile - £67,500 £67,500
East of England median annual salary £62,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +31.58% -13.64% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 62 120 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 10.73% 24.44% 44.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24 99 132
10th Percentile £35,375 £32,500 £36,375
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,375 £75,000 £68,625
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Bedfordshire

SQL
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Salary trend for SQL in Bedfordshire

SQL
Salary Histogram in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Bedfordshire

SQL
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 within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Leighton Buzzard - 9 - -
Luton -3 8 £70,000 +47.37% 20
Bedford -6 2 £50,000 +25.00% 13
Biggleswade 0 1 - -
Dunstable -3 1 - - 1
Henlow - 1 - -
SQL
East of England

SQL
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 (34.48%) Confluence
2 8 (27.59%) IBM Domino
3 1 (3.45%) Apache
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Infor M3
2 1 (3.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
1 12 (41.38%) GCP
2 11 (37.93%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Alexa
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) BigCommerce
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (3.45%) Firebase
4 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) PaaS
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (51.72%) SQL Server
2 14 (48.28%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (17.24%) Data Lake
4 5 (17.24%) Power BI
5 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) JIRA
2 10 (34.48%) Bitbucket
2 10 (34.48%) Cucumber
2 10 (34.48%) GitLab
2 10 (34.48%) Maven
2 10 (34.48%) Selenium
2 10 (34.48%) SonarQube
2 10 (34.48%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (6.90%) Git
General
1 17 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 15 (51.72%) Finance
3 10 (34.48%) Banking
3 10 (34.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (20.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Automotive
6 1 (3.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Software Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (3.45%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Lead
4 1 (3.45%) Software Engineering Team Leader
4 1 (3.45%) Software Team Leader
4 1 (3.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) CSS
1 11 (37.93%) HTML
1 11 (37.93%) React
2 10 (34.48%) Hibernate
2 10 (34.48%) JPA
2 10 (34.48%) Kafka
2 10 (34.48%) Redux
2 10 (34.48%) Spring
2 10 (34.48%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) Laravel
3 1 (3.45%) Next.js
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (34.48%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) IoT
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Home Automation
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (41.38%) DevOps
3 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
3 11 (37.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (37.93%) Front End Development
3 11 (37.93%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (37.93%) Microservices
3 11 (37.93%) Software Engineering
4 10 (34.48%) Clean Code
4 10 (34.48%) Containerisation
4 10 (34.48%) Performance Optimisation
4 10 (34.48%) SDLC
4 10 (34.48%) TDD
4 10 (34.48%) Test Automation
5 9 (31.03%) Data Engineering
6 7 (24.14%) Analytics
7 6 (20.69%) Computer Science
7 6 (20.69%) ERP
7 6 (20.69%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Java
1 11 (37.93%) JavaScript
2 9 (31.03%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.45%) PHP
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) QA
2 5 (17.24%) GxP
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Solace
2 7 (24.14%) Infor
3 5 (17.24%) SAP
4 2 (6.90%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle