Software Engineering Jobs in Oxford

Software Engineering
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxford requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 14 9
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 41 57 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 17.15% 8.74% 10.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.52% 10.04% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 32 47 39
10th Percentile - £43,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £75,313 £76,375 £71,875
90th Percentile £97,500 £78,750 £88,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxford

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 234 568 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 97.91% 87.12% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 131 424 262
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,000 £30,800
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,625 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £49,881 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.26% -1.23% -8.18%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Oxford

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Oxford

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Oxford

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Oxford over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Oxford

Software Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (14.63%) Confluence
2 4 (9.76%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) AWS
2 10 (24.39%) GCP
3 7 (17.07%) Amazon S3
4 6 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (14.63%) Amazon ECR
4 6 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (14.63%) Slack
4 6 (14.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.44%) Azure
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub
6 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) MQTT
1 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (39.02%) MySQL
2 6 (14.63%) MongoDB
3 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.44%) Big Data
4 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (48.78%) Git
2 6 (14.63%) GitLab
2 6 (14.63%) JIRA
3 1 (2.44%) Moq
3 1 (2.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (26.83%) Manufacturing
2 10 (24.39%) Retail
3 6 (14.63%) Electronics
4 4 (9.76%) Tech for Good
5 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Advertising
7 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (65.85%) Software Engineer
2 13 (31.71%) Senior
3 5 (12.20%) Embedded Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Java Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Lead
4 4 (9.76%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Ruby Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Lead Java Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Mobile Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Mobile Software Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) React
2 10 (24.39%) CSS
2 10 (24.39%) HTML
2 10 (24.39%) LAMP
2 10 (24.39%) Laravel
2 10 (24.39%) Web Services
3 6 (14.63%) Django
3 6 (14.63%) Flask
3 6 (14.63%) Lambda Expressions
4 4 (9.76%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (9.76%) Spring
5 2 (4.88%) Node.js
5 2 (4.88%) Swagger
6 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.44%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.44%) OAuth
6 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.44%) React Native
6 1 (2.44%) REST
6 1 (2.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (14.63%) Molecular Biology
3 3 (7.32%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.88%) IoT
5 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.44%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (2.44%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Design Patterns
2 10 (24.39%) E-Commerce
2 10 (24.39%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (24.39%) MVC
2 10 (24.39%) OOP
3 9 (21.95%) Agile
4 7 (17.07%) Systems Engineering
5 6 (14.63%) Batch Processing
5 6 (14.63%) Biology
5 6 (14.63%) CI/CD
5 6 (14.63%) Code Quality
5 6 (14.63%) Commercialisation
5 6 (14.63%) Disruptive Innovation
5 6 (14.63%) Informatics
5 6 (14.63%) Requirements Gathering
5 6 (14.63%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.76%) Architectural Design
7 4 (9.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) Python
2 19 (46.34%) JavaScript
3 12 (29.27%) PHP
4 10 (24.39%) TypeScript
5 5 (12.20%) Java
6 4 (9.76%) Ruby
6 4 (9.76%) SQL
7 2 (4.88%) Go
8 1 (2.44%) C
8 1 (2.44%) C#
8 1 (2.44%) C++
8 1 (2.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Degree
1 5 (12.20%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) CDISC
1 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
1 6 (14.63%) Kustomize
2 1 (2.44%) Argo
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Sawtooth Software