Software Engineer Jobs in Oxford

Software Engineer
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Software Engineer salary in Oxford is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 27 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -15 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 32 29 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 4.91% 5.95% 13.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.15% 6.92% 14.20%
Number of salaries quoted 24 24 27
10th Percentile - £47,500 £40,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,625 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £80,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £51,020 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -14.97% +6.67% +12.96%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Oxford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Oxford with a recognized job title 621 419 486
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.25% 86.04% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 472 304 298
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,563 £37,438 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +15.00%
75th Percentile £64,000 £69,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £46,293 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% -4.76% +9.38%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Oxford

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Oxford.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Oxford

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Oxford over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Oxford

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Oxford region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (25.00%) Python
3 7 (21.88%) C++
3 7 (21.88%) C
3 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
4 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
4 6 (18.75%) LLM
4 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 4 (12.50%) Biotechnology
5 4 (12.50%) Aerospace
5 4 (12.50%) Validation
5 4 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
6 3 (9.38%) SOLID
6 3 (9.38%) Multithreaded Programming
6 3 (9.38%) Microservices
6 3 (9.38%) MVC
6 3 (9.38%) XAML
6 3 (9.38%) C#
6 3 (9.38%) Windows
6 3 (9.38%) Linux
6 3 (9.38%) Java
6 3 (9.38%) WPF
6 3 (9.38%) Multithreading
6 3 (9.38%) MVVM
7 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.25%) React
8 1 (3.13%) API Development
8 1 (3.13%) DevOps

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.13%) AWS
1 1 (3.13%) Azure
1 1 (3.13%) SaaS
General
1 4 (12.50%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) WPF
2 2 (6.25%) React
3 1 (3.13%) Node.js
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (18.75%) LLM
3 4 (12.50%) Biotechnology
3 4 (12.50%) Mathematics
3 4 (12.50%) Validation
3 4 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
4 3 (9.38%) Microservices
4 3 (9.38%) Multithreaded Programming
4 3 (9.38%) Multithreading
4 3 (9.38%) MVC
4 3 (9.38%) MVVM
4 3 (9.38%) SOLID
5 1 (3.13%) API Development
5 1 (3.13%) DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (3.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) C
2 7 (21.88%) C++
2 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
3 3 (9.38%) C#
3 3 (9.38%) Java
3 3 (9.38%) XAML
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) SQL