Defensive Programming Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Defensive Programming
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Defensive Programming skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Defensive Programming 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.013% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median annual salary - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Defensive Programming 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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,453 3,421 3,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.52% 90.31% 83.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,883 1,488 1,802
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,800 £32,050
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,736
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Defensive Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Defensive Programming relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Defensive Programming job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Defensive Programming
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Defensive Programming.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Defensive Programming

Defensive Programming
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Defensive Programming within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 October 2026. 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
Berkshire - 1 - -
Defensive Programming
South East

Defensive Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Zeppelin
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) git-flow
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) PyCharm
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) zsh
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google