Developer Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Developer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Developer salary in Oxfordshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 15 7
Rank change year-on-year -12 -8 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 40 120 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 5.89% 11.08% 14.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.28% 11.59% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 32 75 90
10th Percentile £52,500 - £45,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £36,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -30.77% +23.56%
75th Percentile £70,375 £57,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,750 £93,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 637 1,035 639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 95.57% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 388 561 521
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,242 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -6.83% +8.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £77,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Developer job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Developer
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Developer
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Oxfordshire

Developer
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Oxford +4 22 £65,000 -22.39% 12
Abingdon -3 4 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Banbury - 3 £53,750 - 5
Witney +1 2 £55,000 - 4
Kidlington - 1 £41,000 - 1
Wantage - 1 £71,000 -
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 27 October 2025, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Oxfordshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 20 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (42.50%) .NET
2 17 (42.50%) C#
3 16 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 16 (40.00%) MySQL
4 15 (37.50%) TypeScript
5 13 (32.50%) Git
5 13 (32.50%) HTML
5 13 (32.50%) React
5 13 (32.50%) Vue
6 12 (30.00%) AWS
6 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 11 (27.50%) ASP.NET
7 11 (27.50%) CSS
7 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
7 11 (27.50%) Mobile First
8 10 (25.00%) AngularJS
8 10 (25.00%) HTML5
9 9 (22.50%) Agile
9 9 (22.50%) Cloudflare
9 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
10 8 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (20.00%) CSS3
10 8 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (20.00%) Laravel
10 8 (20.00%) PHP
10 8 (20.00%) RESTful
10 8 (20.00%) Rollbar
11 7 (17.50%) Jest
11 7 (17.50%) MVC

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.00%) IIS
2 2 (5.00%) CMS
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (2.50%) Elementor
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) Cloudflare
3 6 (15.00%) Azure
4 5 (12.50%) SaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.50%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.50%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.50%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.50%) npm
6 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.50%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (40.00%) MySQL
2 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
3 8 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.50%) Power BI
5 1 (2.50%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Git
2 7 (17.50%) NUnit
2 7 (17.50%) TeamCity
3 6 (15.00%) Jasmine
4 3 (7.50%) JIRA
5 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.00%) PHPUnit
6 1 (2.50%) gulp
6 1 (2.50%) Mocha
6 1 (2.50%) PostCSS
6 1 (2.50%) rollup.js
6 1 (2.50%) Subversion
6 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.50%) Vite
General
1 7 (17.50%) Games
2 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Billing
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Legal
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing
4 1 (2.50%) Multimedia
4 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (42.50%) .NET
2 13 (32.50%) HTML
2 13 (32.50%) React
2 13 (32.50%) Vue
3 11 (27.50%) ASP.NET
3 11 (27.50%) CSS
4 10 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 10 (25.00%) HTML5
5 8 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 8 (20.00%) CSS3
5 8 (20.00%) Laravel
5 8 (20.00%) RESTful
6 7 (17.50%) Jest
7 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
7 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
8 2 (5.00%) REST
8 2 (5.00%) Svelte
8 2 (5.00%) Symfony
8 2 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (5.00%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Online Games
2 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.50%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.50%) Animation
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.50%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.50%) Graphic Design
3 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.50%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (27.50%) Mobile First
4 9 (22.50%) Agile
5 7 (17.50%) MVC
6 6 (15.00%) Front End Development
6 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.00%) DevOps
7 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (10.00%) Web Development
8 3 (7.50%) Clean Code
8 3 (7.50%) Microservices
8 3 (7.50%) Scrum
9 2 (5.00%) Analytics
9 2 (5.00%) Decision-Making
9 2 (5.00%) Mobile Application Development
9 2 (5.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (42.50%) C#
3 15 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 8 (20.00%) PHP
5 5 (12.50%) SQL
6 3 (7.50%) Python
7 2 (5.00%) Java
8 1 (2.50%) Bash
8 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.50%) PhD
2 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) Rollbar
3 1 (2.50%) Adobe
3 1 (2.50%) Automation Anywhere
3 1 (2.50%) Blue Prism
3 1 (2.50%) IONA
3 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.50%) UiPath