Software Engineering Jobs in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 56 186 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 8.09% 10.37% 12.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.67% 13.03% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 40 151 78
10th Percentile £52,250 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,188 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £80,938 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 646 1,428 1,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 93.35% 79.64% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 295 1,110 757
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,125 £62,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Oxfordshire

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 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 +6 33 £67,500 +5.88% 174
Carterton - 7 - - 1
Bicester +9 2 £90,000 +125.00% 1
Abingdon +5 2 £55,000 +22.22% 4
Banbury +11 1 - - 8
Wallingford +11 1 - - 2
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
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 5 (8.93%) CMS
2 4 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Simulink
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) AWS
2 8 (14.29%) Azure
2 8 (14.29%) GCP
3 4 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 4 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.57%) Serverless
5 2 (3.57%) Slack
6 1 (1.79%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) DNS
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
1 2 (3.57%) MQTT
1 2 (3.57%) VPN
1 2 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) MySQL
2 5 (8.93%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (26.79%) Git
2 4 (7.14%) GitLab
2 4 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.57%) Maven
3 2 (3.57%) Moq
3 2 (3.57%) Selenium
3 2 (3.57%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.57%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.79%) Babel
4 1 (1.79%) CMake
4 1 (1.79%) NUnit
4 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.79%) Vite
4 1 (1.79%) webpack
General
1 10 (17.86%) Finance
2 8 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 7 (12.50%) Aviation
3 7 (12.50%) Military
4 6 (10.71%) Retail
5 5 (8.93%) Tech for Good
6 4 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.36%) Banking
8 2 (3.57%) Advertising
8 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.57%) Electronics
8 2 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.79%) Games
Job Titles
1 40 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) Senior
3 7 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Embedded Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Ruby Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Lead
7 3 (5.36%) Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.21%) React
2 12 (21.43%) CSS
2 12 (21.43%) HTML
3 7 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
3 7 (12.50%) XML
4 6 (10.71%) Spring
5 5 (8.93%) LAMP
5 5 (8.93%) Laravel
5 5 (8.93%) Web Services
6 4 (7.14%) .NET
7 3 (5.36%) .NET Framework
7 3 (5.36%) OAuth
7 3 (5.36%) OAuth2
7 3 (5.36%) Redux
8 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.57%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.57%) FHIR
8 2 (3.57%) gRPC
8 2 (3.57%) HTML5
8 2 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) e-Learning
1 7 (12.50%) Reference Data
2 5 (8.93%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (8.93%) Virtual Team
3 4 (7.14%) IoT
4 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.57%) Molecular Biology
5 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.57%) Robotics
6 1 (1.79%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.79%) Online Games
6 1 (1.79%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.57%) Agile
2 11 (19.64%) Data Analysis
3 10 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 8 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
4 8 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 7 (12.50%) Design Patterns
5 7 (12.50%) DevOps
5 7 (12.50%) Front End Development
5 7 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
5 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 7 (12.50%) Migration
5 7 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 7 (12.50%) Regression Testing
5 7 (12.50%) TDD
6 6 (10.71%) Microservices
6 6 (10.71%) MVC
6 6 (10.71%) OOP
7 5 (8.93%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 25 (44.64%) Python
2 18 (32.14%) SQL
3 14 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 7 (12.50%) Java
5 7 (12.50%) PHP
5 7 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 7 (12.50%) Ruby
6 5 (8.93%) C#
7 4 (7.14%) Bash
7 4 (7.14%) C++
8 3 (5.36%) Go
8 3 (5.36%) MATLAB
9 2 (3.57%) C
9 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Degree
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.71%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.71%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) CDISC
System Software
1 7 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.14%) Terraform
3 3 (5.36%) Ansible
4 2 (3.57%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 2 (3.57%) Sawtooth Software
1 2 (3.57%) Solace
2 1 (1.79%) Databricks
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.79%) Rollbar