Software Engineering Jobs in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 21 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 -10 +13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 522 551 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.76% 9.35% 14.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.18% 9.87% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 389 309 460
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £34,990
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £64,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.72% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,686 5,583 6,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 84.53% 94.79% 92.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,875 3,048 3,847
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,777 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Berkshire +19 256 £60,000 -14.29% 49
Oxfordshire 0 168 £54,750 +4.29% 53
Buckinghamshire -25 98 £50,000 -13.04% 24
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 29 (5.56%) ArcGIS
1 29 (5.56%) GeoServer
2 6 (1.15%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.77%) Confluence
4 2 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) JBoss
5 1 (0.19%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.19%) nginx
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.53%) OrCAD
2 5 (0.96%) Simulink
3 2 (0.38%) Stateflow
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (17.24%) Azure
2 79 (15.13%) AWS
3 16 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (1.53%) GitHub
4 8 (1.53%) SaaS
5 7 (1.34%) IaaS
6 6 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (1.15%) Power Platform
7 5 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (0.96%) Datadog
7 5 (0.96%) Serverless
8 4 (0.77%) Firebolt
9 3 (0.57%) GCP
10 2 (0.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.38%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.38%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.38%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.38%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.64%) Ethernet
2 18 (3.45%) Internet
3 13 (2.49%) Network Security
4 10 (1.92%) Wireless
5 7 (1.34%) VPN
6 5 (0.96%) Firewall
6 5 (0.96%) GPRS
6 5 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.57%) RS-485
8 2 (0.38%) Broadband
9 1 (0.19%) HTTP
9 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.19%) MQTT
9 1 (0.19%) RS-232
9 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.94%) GIS
3 29 (5.56%) QGIS
4 25 (4.79%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (2.68%) MySQL
8 10 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.15%) CouchDB
9 6 (1.15%) Power BI
9 6 (1.15%) Redis
10 4 (0.77%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.57%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.57%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 43 (8.24%) Git
2 22 (4.21%) Cypress.io
2 22 (4.21%) Selenium
2 22 (4.21%) SoapUI
3 10 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.92%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.34%) Gradle
5 6 (1.15%) JIRA
6 5 (0.96%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.96%) GitLab
7 4 (0.77%) Subversion
8 3 (0.57%) gulp
8 3 (0.57%) JDeveloper
8 3 (0.57%) PostCSS
8 3 (0.57%) rollup.js
8 3 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.57%) Vite
9 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.38%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.38%) IntelliJ
General
1 56 (10.73%) Social Skills
2 33 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (5.94%) Electronics
4 26 (4.98%) Finance
5 21 (4.02%) Aerospace
6 15 (2.87%) Health Technology
7 14 (2.68%) Automotive
8 12 (2.30%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.72%) Law
11 9 (1.72%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.53%) Legal
13 7 (1.34%) Games
13 7 (1.34%) Retail
14 4 (0.77%) Aeronautics
15 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.19%) Marketing
16 1 (0.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 358 (68.58%) Software Engineer
2 166 (31.80%) Senior
3 125 (23.95%) Senior Software Engineer
4 95 (18.20%) Embedded Engineer
5 83 (15.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 67 (12.84%) Lead
7 59 (11.30%) Developer
8 42 (8.05%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 42 (8.05%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 35 (6.70%) C++ Software Engineer
9 35 (6.70%) Team Leader
10 31 (5.94%) Software Team Leader
11 29 (5.56%) Development Team Leader
11 29 (5.56%) Software Development Team Leader
12 22 (4.21%) Senior Developer
13 20 (3.83%) Lead Software Engineer
14 18 (3.45%) Full Stack Engineer
14 18 (3.45%) Software Developer
15 17 (3.26%) Graduate
16 16 (3.07%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (24.52%) .NET
2 91 (17.43%) React
3 45 (8.62%) .NET Core
4 39 (7.47%) CSS
5 29 (5.56%) Leaflet
5 29 (5.56%) OpenLayers
5 29 (5.56%) PostGIS
6 27 (5.17%) ASP.NET
7 22 (4.21%) Jest
8 18 (3.45%) AngularJS
9 17 (3.26%) Spring
10 15 (2.87%) Django
11 14 (2.68%) HTML
11 14 (2.68%) WPF
12 13 (2.49%) Vue
13 10 (1.92%) Blazor
13 10 (1.92%) Kafka
14 8 (1.53%) Spring Boot
15 7 (1.34%) Hibernate
15 7 (1.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.41%) Algorithms
1 23 (4.41%) IoT
2 22 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (3.64%) Embedded Systems
4 15 (2.87%) FPGA
5 12 (2.30%) Life Science
6 11 (2.11%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
8 8 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (1.53%) PCIe
9 7 (1.34%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.15%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.15%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.15%) Hackathon
10 6 (1.15%) PropTech
11 5 (0.96%) Device Driver
11 5 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 81 (15.52%) Linux
2 45 (8.62%) Windows
3 20 (3.83%) Embedded Linux
4 8 (1.53%) Unix
5 5 (0.96%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (25.67%) Agile
2 89 (17.05%) Computer Science
3 72 (13.79%) DevOps
4 65 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (10.34%) Full Stack Development
6 49 (9.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 48 (9.20%) Mentoring
8 44 (8.43%) Actionable Insight
9 42 (8.05%) Mathematics
10 39 (7.47%) Physics
11 33 (6.32%) Web Development
12 29 (5.56%) Propensity Modelling
13 28 (5.36%) Machine Learning
13 28 (5.36%) Open Source
14 27 (5.17%) Microservices
15 26 (4.98%) Coaching
16 25 (4.79%) Technical Leadership
17 24 (4.60%) Software Testing
18 22 (4.21%) SDLC
19 21 (4.02%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 148 (28.35%) Python
2 110 (21.07%) C#
3 89 (17.05%) JavaScript
4 83 (15.90%) SQL
5 78 (14.94%) C++
6 75 (14.37%) C
7 71 (13.60%) Java
8 55 (10.54%) TypeScript
9 20 (3.83%) Bash
10 17 (3.26%) Embedded C
11 14 (2.68%) MATLAB
11 14 (2.68%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.68%) Ruby
11 14 (2.68%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.92%) Go
12 10 (1.92%) VB.NET
13 7 (1.34%) Fortran
13 7 (1.34%) XAML
14 5 (0.96%) PHP
15 4 (0.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 173 (33.14%) Degree
2 68 (13.03%) Security Cleared
3 47 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 40 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (5.56%) PhD
6 28 (5.36%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.49%) CISSP
8 9 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.53%) CISM
9 8 (1.53%) GIAC
9 8 (1.53%) GPEN
10 5 (0.96%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.26%) QA
2 13 (2.49%) NIST
3 8 (1.53%) GDPR
3 8 (1.53%) GRC
3 8 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.15%) NIST 800
6 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.38%) SLA
7 2 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.19%) JTAG
System Software
1 49 (9.39%) Docker
2 12 (2.30%) Firmware
3 8 (1.53%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (7.85%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.72%) Ansible
3 7 (1.34%) Terraform
4 6 (1.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (1.15%) Nessus
5 5 (0.96%) Suricata
6 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (7.28%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.56%) ESRI
3 8 (1.53%) EMC
4 6 (1.15%) Qualys
5 5 (0.96%) Cisco
5 5 (0.96%) Juniper
5 5 (0.96%) Palo Alto
5 5 (0.96%) Splunk
5 5 (0.96%) YouTube
6 4 (0.77%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.77%) Oracle
6 4 (0.77%) Renesas
7 3 (0.57%) Google
8 2 (0.38%) IFS
8 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.38%) SAP
8 2 (0.38%) VMware
9 1 (0.19%) Databricks
9 1 (0.19%) F5
9 1 (0.19%) RedGate