Software Engineer Jobs in Oxfordshire

Software Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Software Engineer salary in Oxfordshire is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 25 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 +41 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 50 108 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 6.64% 6.42% 3.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.51% 6.70% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 35 86 37
10th Percentile £48,000 £31,000 £34,990
25th Percentile £55,000 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,510 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.64% -15.82% +14.29%
75th Percentile £78,125 £62,188 £71,250
90th Percentile £94,500 £78,750 £91,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +8.70%

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 666 1,613 1,290
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.45% 95.84% 84.53%
Number of salaries quoted 358 1,289 791
10th Percentile £32,495 £29,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,875 £70,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Oxfordshire

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Oxfordshire

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Oxfordshire

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 May 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 +18 28 £70,000 +12.00% 17
Carterton - 5 - - 1
Bicester +10 2 £90,000 +125.00% 3
Abingdon +6 2 £55,000 +22.22% 1
Witney - 2 - - 1
Banbury +9 1 - -
Software Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 28 (56.00%) Python
3 15 (30.00%) SQL
3 15 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 15 (30.00%) AWS
3 15 (30.00%) React
4 12 (24.00%) TypeScript
4 12 (24.00%) Agile
5 11 (22.00%) Manufacturing
5 11 (22.00%) DevOps
5 11 (22.00%) Azure
5 11 (22.00%) Git
6 9 (18.00%) C#
6 9 (18.00%) Java
6 9 (18.00%) GitLab
6 9 (18.00%) Kubernetes
7 8 (16.00%) Systems Engineering
7 8 (16.00%) .NET
7 8 (16.00%) Confluence
7 8 (16.00%) Degree
7 8 (16.00%) JIRA
8 7 (14.00%) Amazon S3
8 7 (14.00%) Docker
8 7 (14.00%) Microservices
8 7 (14.00%) MySQL
8 7 (14.00%) Linux
8 7 (14.00%) Electronics
8 7 (14.00%) Finance
8 7 (14.00%) Data Analysis
8 7 (14.00%) CI/CD

Software Engineer 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 (16.00%) Confluence
2 4 (8.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Simulink
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) AWS
2 11 (22.00%) Azure
3 7 (14.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (12.00%) Amazon ECR
4 6 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (12.00%) Slack
4 6 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) MQTT
1 2 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (2.00%) Broadband
2 1 (2.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) MySQL
2 6 (12.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.00%) Big Data
4 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.00%) GIS
4 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Git
2 9 (18.00%) GitLab
3 8 (16.00%) JIRA
4 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.00%) Maven
4 2 (4.00%) Moq
4 2 (4.00%) Selenium
4 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.00%) CMake
General
1 11 (22.00%) Manufacturing
2 7 (14.00%) Electronics
2 7 (14.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 5 (10.00%) Aviation
3 5 (10.00%) Military
4 4 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Tech for Good
5 3 (6.00%) Advertising
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.00%) Aeronautics
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.00%) React
2 8 (16.00%) .NET
3 6 (12.00%) Django
3 6 (12.00%) Flask
3 6 (12.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 6 (12.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 6 (12.00%) Spring
4 5 (10.00%) CSS
4 5 (10.00%) HTML
4 5 (10.00%) XML
5 3 (6.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.00%) OAuth
5 3 (6.00%) OAuth2
5 3 (6.00%) REST
6 2 (4.00%) Blazor
6 2 (4.00%) FHIR
6 2 (4.00%) gRPC
6 2 (4.00%) Kafka
6 2 (4.00%) Redux
6 2 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Molecular Biology
2 5 (10.00%) e-Learning
2 5 (10.00%) Reference Data
3 3 (6.00%) IoT
4 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.00%) Robotics
5 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (24.00%) Agile
3 11 (22.00%) DevOps
4 8 (16.00%) Systems Engineering
5 7 (14.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (14.00%) Data Analysis
5 7 (14.00%) Microservices
6 6 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (12.00%) Batch Processing
6 6 (12.00%) Biology
6 6 (12.00%) Code Quality
6 6 (12.00%) Commercialisation
6 6 (12.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (12.00%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (12.00%) Disruptive Innovation
6 6 (12.00%) Front End Development
6 6 (12.00%) Informatics
6 6 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (12.00%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (12.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (56.00%) Python
2 15 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 15 (30.00%) SQL
3 12 (24.00%) TypeScript
4 9 (18.00%) C#
4 9 (18.00%) Java
5 6 (12.00%) Ruby
6 5 (10.00%) C++
6 5 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 4 (8.00%) MATLAB
8 2 (4.00%) Bash
8 2 (4.00%) C
9 1 (2.00%) Go
9 1 (2.00%) Julia
9 1 (2.00%) PHP
9 1 (2.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 5 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) CDISC
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (2.00%) Argo
3 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Sawtooth Software
2 2 (4.00%) Solace