Developer Jobs in Oxfordshire

Developer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Developer salary in Oxfordshire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 61 188 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 8.22% 10.21% 14.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.98% 10.68% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 51 180 144
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £37,875 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -18.52% +22.73%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,750 £78,375
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 679 1,761 1,026
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 95.60% 86.88%
Number of salaries quoted 390 1,296 770
10th Percentile £28,475 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £69,375 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Oxfordshire

Developer
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Oxfordshire.

Salary trend for Developer in Oxfordshire

Developer
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 16 July 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 16 July 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 -2 22 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Witney +6 4 £52,500 -14.63% 1
Abingdon 0 3 £65,000 +44.44% 2
Wantage +2 2 £71,000 +18.33%
Banbury - 2 - - 9
Kidlington - 1 £41,000 -
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 16 July 2025, Developer 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 31 (50.82%) .NET
2 30 (49.18%) React
3 24 (39.34%) SQL Server
4 23 (37.70%) Microsoft
4 23 (37.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (36.07%) TypeScript
6 21 (34.43%) C#
6 21 (34.43%) JavaScript
7 18 (29.51%) ASP.NET
7 18 (29.51%) Agile
7 18 (29.51%) AWS
8 17 (27.87%) MySQL
9 16 (26.23%) SQL
9 16 (26.23%) HTML
10 15 (24.59%) CSS
10 15 (24.59%) Git
10 15 (24.59%) Mobile App
10 15 (24.59%) .NET Core
11 13 (21.31%) Mobile First
11 13 (21.31%) Vue
11 13 (21.31%) CI/CD
12 12 (19.67%) HTML5
12 12 (19.67%) .NET Framework
12 12 (19.67%) JSON
12 12 (19.67%) XML
12 12 (19.67%) Project Management
12 12 (19.67%) Workflow
13 11 (18.03%) MVC
13 11 (18.03%) Visual Studio
13 11 (18.03%) Business Development

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 8 (13.11%) IIS
2 4 (6.56%) CMS
3 1 (1.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) Strapi
3 1 (1.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.64%) Sage 200
1 1 (1.64%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.64%) SAP FSCM
1 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (29.51%) AWS
2 11 (18.03%) Cloudflare
3 8 (13.11%) Power Platform
4 7 (11.48%) Azure
5 6 (9.84%) Serverless
6 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.64%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.64%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.64%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.64%) npm
7 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.64%) SaaS
7 1 (1.64%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Broadband
1 1 (1.64%) Intranet
1 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (39.34%) SQL Server
2 17 (27.87%) MySQL
3 11 (18.03%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (18.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (13.11%) Power BI
5 6 (9.84%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.28%) Power Query
7 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.64%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (24.59%) Git
2 11 (18.03%) Visual Studio
3 9 (14.75%) NUnit
3 9 (14.75%) TeamCity
4 8 (13.11%) Jasmine
5 3 (4.92%) JIRA
6 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.64%) GitLab
6 1 (1.64%) gulp
6 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.64%) Mocha
6 1 (1.64%) PostCSS
6 1 (1.64%) rollup.js
6 1 (1.64%) Subversion
6 1 (1.64%) Vite
General
1 7 (11.48%) Games
2 5 (8.20%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Finance
3 3 (4.92%) Law
4 2 (3.28%) Legal
5 1 (1.64%) Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Billing
5 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (50.82%) .NET
2 30 (49.18%) React
3 18 (29.51%) ASP.NET
4 16 (26.23%) HTML
5 15 (24.59%) .NET Core
5 15 (24.59%) CSS
6 13 (21.31%) Vue
7 12 (19.67%) .NET Framework
7 12 (19.67%) HTML5
7 12 (19.67%) JSON
7 12 (19.67%) XML
8 11 (18.03%) AngularJS
8 11 (18.03%) RESTful
9 10 (16.39%) CSS3
10 9 (14.75%) ASP.NET Core
10 9 (14.75%) Jest
11 8 (13.11%) Node.js
12 7 (11.48%) Laravel
13 6 (9.84%) GraphQL
14 5 (8.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.92%) Online Games
3 2 (3.28%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (1.64%) Animation
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.64%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.64%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.64%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Android
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (29.51%) Agile
3 13 (21.31%) CI/CD
3 13 (21.31%) Mobile First
4 12 (19.67%) Project Management
4 12 (19.67%) Workflow
5 11 (18.03%) Business Development
5 11 (18.03%) Customer-Centricity
5 11 (18.03%) MVC
6 9 (14.75%) DevOps
7 8 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (9.84%) Event-Driven
8 6 (9.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (9.84%) Front End Development
8 6 (9.84%) Kanban
8 6 (9.84%) Secure Coding
8 6 (9.84%) Test Automation
8 6 (9.84%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (9.84%) Unit Testing
8 6 (9.84%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.07%) TypeScript
2 21 (34.43%) C#
2 21 (34.43%) JavaScript
3 16 (26.23%) SQL
4 9 (14.75%) Python
5 7 (11.48%) PHP
6 3 (4.92%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.28%) Bash
7 2 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.28%) Java
8 1 (1.64%) ABAP
8 1 (1.64%) C++
8 1 (1.64%) Go
8 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.64%) Rust
8 1 (1.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.28%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.64%) CCA
4 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) PhD
4 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) QA
1 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (16.39%) Terraform
2 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (37.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.39%) Rollbar
3 1 (1.64%) Automation Anywhere
3 1 (1.64%) Blue Prism
3 1 (1.64%) Sage
3 1 (1.64%) SAP
3 1 (1.64%) UiPath