Developer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Developer salary in the Thames Valley is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 895 974 1,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.27% 15.84% 19.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.01% 17.62% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 777 736 924
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,389 5,529 6,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.92% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,564 3,220 4,174
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £37,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
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 Developer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 -2 456 £65,000 +4.00% 42
Buckinghamshire -1 237 £55,000 - 26
Oxfordshire +3 202 £57,500 -4.17% 23
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 386 (43.13%) JavaScript
2 369 (41.23%) C#
3 310 (34.64%) .NET
4 294 (32.85%) Agile
5 262 (29.27%) Azure
6 248 (27.71%) React
7 196 (21.90%) SQL
8 187 (20.89%) Docker
9 184 (20.56%) TypeScript
10 179 (20.00%) HTML
11 174 (19.44%) CSS
12 168 (18.77%) DevOps
13 165 (18.44%) Git
13 165 (18.44%) Degree
14 162 (18.10%) Microsoft
15 160 (17.88%) Kubernetes
16 159 (17.77%) Full Stack Development
17 158 (17.65%) SQL Server
18 149 (16.65%) Computer Science
19 147 (16.42%) AWS
20 136 (15.20%) Artificial Intelligence
21 125 (13.97%) Propensity Modelling
22 117 (13.07%) ASP.NET
23 116 (12.96%) AngularJS
24 114 (12.74%) Java
25 109 (12.18%) Microservices
26 105 (11.73%) TDD
27 104 (11.62%) .NET Core
28 102 (11.40%) MVC
28 102 (11.40%) Security Cleared

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 44 (4.92%) CMS
2 28 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 24 (2.68%) Headless CMS
3 24 (2.68%) Kentico
4 23 (2.57%) IIS
5 21 (2.35%) SharePoint
6 19 (2.12%) Sitecore CMS
6 19 (2.12%) Umbraco
7 11 (1.23%) IBM Domino
7 11 (1.23%) JBoss
7 11 (1.23%) nginx
8 10 (1.12%) Apache
8 10 (1.12%) Red Hat Fuse
8 10 (1.12%) WordPress
9 4 (0.45%) Confluence
10 3 (0.34%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (2.01%) Dynamics AX
3 9 (1.01%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.22%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 262 (29.27%) Azure
2 147 (16.42%) AWS
3 83 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (6.37%) Power Platform
5 56 (6.26%) Dynamics 365
6 47 (5.25%) Serverless
7 39 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (3.24%) SaaS
9 19 (2.12%) Kontent
10 18 (2.01%) GitHub
11 17 (1.90%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (1.34%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (0.78%) WhatsApp
16 6 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 5 (0.56%) Amazon S3
17 5 (0.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.12%) DNS
1 10 (1.12%) Firewall
1 10 (1.12%) Internet
1 10 (1.12%) SSL
2 4 (0.45%) MQTT
2 4 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.45%) VPN
3 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 100 (11.17%) NoSQL
3 69 (7.71%) PostgreSQL
4 67 (7.49%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.47%) MySQL
6 41 (4.58%) Power BI
7 30 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (2.23%) Data Lake
8 20 (2.23%) MongoDB
8 20 (2.23%) Power Query
9 15 (1.68%) Oracle Database
10 14 (1.56%) OLTP
11 13 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.12%) Redis
13 9 (1.01%) Oracle Database 11g
14 6 (0.67%) EDRMS
14 6 (0.67%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 165 (18.44%) Git
2 50 (5.59%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.69%) Cypress.io
4 39 (4.36%) Selenium
5 35 (3.91%) Visual Studio
6 25 (2.79%) JIRA
7 24 (2.68%) NUnit
8 16 (1.79%) JUnit
9 11 (1.23%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.12%) MorphX
11 9 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (1.01%) Vite
12 6 (0.67%) GitLab
12 6 (0.67%) gulp
12 6 (0.67%) JMeter
12 6 (0.67%) Mockito
12 6 (0.67%) PostCSS
12 6 (0.67%) rollup.js
13 5 (0.56%) Bugzilla
13 5 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 90 (10.06%) Social Skills
2 49 (5.47%) Public Sector
3 36 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (4.02%) Marketing
4 34 (3.80%) Finance
5 29 (3.24%) Law
6 26 (2.91%) Retail
6 26 (2.91%) Tech for Good
7 15 (1.68%) Back Office
8 10 (1.12%) Games
8 10 (1.12%) Health Technology
9 9 (1.01%) Banking
10 8 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.89%) Police
10 8 (0.89%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.67%) Legal
11 6 (0.67%) Local Government
11 6 (0.67%) Multimedia
12 5 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (34.64%) .NET
2 248 (27.71%) React
3 179 (20.00%) HTML
4 174 (19.44%) CSS
5 117 (13.07%) ASP.NET
6 116 (12.96%) AngularJS
7 104 (11.62%) .NET Core
8 86 (9.61%) .NET Framework
9 82 (9.16%) Node.js
10 66 (7.37%) Web Services
11 65 (7.26%) ASP.NET MVC
12 62 (6.93%) HTML5
13 56 (6.26%) REST
13 56 (6.26%) RESTful
14 53 (5.92%) CSS3
15 51 (5.70%) Vue
16 49 (5.47%) Spring
17 48 (5.36%) Spring Boot
18 47 (5.25%) XML
19 43 (4.80%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 35 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.46%) Mobile App
4 19 (2.12%) Algorithms
4 19 (2.12%) Mainframe
5 15 (1.68%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.45%) e-Learning
7 11 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.23%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.12%) IoT
9 9 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (0.89%) BBC
10 8 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (0.89%) Social Media
11 7 (0.78%) Client/Server
11 7 (0.78%) NHS
12 6 (0.67%) Animation
12 6 (0.67%) Learning Management System
12 6 (0.67%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.57%) Linux
2 15 (1.68%) Windows
3 13 (1.45%) Android
3 13 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (32.85%) Agile
2 168 (18.77%) DevOps
3 159 (17.77%) Full Stack Development
4 149 (16.65%) Computer Science
5 136 (15.20%) Artificial Intelligence
6 125 (13.97%) Propensity Modelling
7 109 (12.18%) Microservices
8 105 (11.73%) TDD
9 102 (11.40%) MVC
10 93 (10.39%) Scrum
11 88 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
12 85 (9.50%) Front End Development
13 68 (7.60%) Software Engineering
14 67 (7.49%) BDD
14 67 (7.49%) Web Development
15 66 (7.37%) Kanban
16 64 (7.15%) CI/CD
17 58 (6.48%) CRM
18 51 (5.70%) Unit Testing
19 46 (5.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 386 (43.13%) JavaScript
2 369 (41.23%) C#
3 196 (21.90%) SQL
4 184 (20.56%) TypeScript
5 114 (12.74%) Java
6 95 (10.61%) Python
7 85 (9.50%) PHP
8 36 (4.02%) T-SQL
9 30 (3.35%) C++
9 30 (3.35%) PL/SQL
10 25 (2.79%) C
11 19 (2.12%) COBOL
12 16 (1.79%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.23%) Go
13 11 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.78%) Ruby
14 7 (0.78%) XAML
15 6 (0.67%) Fortran
15 6 (0.67%) Scala
16 5 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 165 (18.44%) Degree
2 102 (11.40%) Security Cleared
3 85 (9.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 51 (5.70%) SC Cleared
5 39 (4.36%) CTC Cleared
6 16 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.45%) PhD
8 12 (1.34%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.12%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.56%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.02%) WCAG
2 27 (3.02%) QA
3 4 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 187 (20.89%) Docker
2 20 (2.23%) Hyper-V
3 8 (0.89%) Firmware
4 4 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 160 (17.88%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.13%) Ansible
3 24 (2.68%) Terraform
4 5 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
4 5 (0.56%) Kibana
5 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 162 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.03%) Oracle
3 28 (3.13%) WSO2
4 21 (2.35%) Xamarin
5 19 (2.12%) Optimizely
5 19 (2.12%) Sitecore
5 19 (2.12%) Unisys
6 12 (1.34%) Google
7 10 (1.12%) HP
7 10 (1.12%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.01%) Facebook
8 9 (1.01%) IBM
8 9 (1.01%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.89%) Apple
9 8 (0.89%) Sony
9 8 (0.89%) Yahoo!
10 7 (0.78%) Adobe
11 4 (0.45%) BMC
11 4 (0.45%) Remedy
11 4 (0.45%) Telerik