Developer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Developer salary in the Thames Valley is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -23 -3 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 255 862 922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.45% 12.88% 15.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.87% 13.60% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 183 742 711
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,713
25th Percentile £46,875 £46,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +3.60%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 2,875 6,337 5,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.94% 94.70% 89.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,254 4,418 3,118
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,183 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £64,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,512 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 16 May 2025.

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 16 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
Berkshire -16 147 £65,000 - 91
Oxfordshire -15 63 £48,750 -15.22% 75
Buckinghamshire -39 45 £58,750 +6.82% 38
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 105 (41.18%) Agile
2 94 (36.86%) SQL
3 87 (34.12%) .NET
4 82 (32.16%) React
5 81 (31.76%) JavaScript
6 72 (28.24%) AWS
7 71 (27.84%) SQL Server
8 66 (25.88%) Docker
9 64 (25.10%) C#
10 61 (23.92%) HTML
11 60 (23.53%) Microservices
12 59 (23.14%) Full-Stack Development
12 59 (23.14%) Microsoft
12 59 (23.14%) Git
13 58 (22.75%) Java
14 56 (21.96%) DevOps
15 55 (21.57%) Kubernetes
16 49 (19.22%) Serverless
17 47 (18.43%) TDD
18 45 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
19 44 (17.25%) XML
19 44 (17.25%) Azure
19 44 (17.25%) Degree
19 44 (17.25%) CI/CD
19 44 (17.25%) REST
20 43 (16.86%) TypeScript
21 42 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
21 42 (16.47%) Spring
22 41 (16.08%) Power Platform
22 41 (16.08%) Jenkins

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 17 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.10%) JBoss
2 13 (5.10%) Red Hat Fuse
3 5 (1.96%) Confluence
3 5 (1.96%) IIS
3 5 (1.96%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.18%) CMS
4 3 (1.18%) WordPress
5 2 (0.78%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.39%) Strapi
Applications
1 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (0.78%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (0.78%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.39%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 72 (28.24%) AWS
2 49 (19.22%) Serverless
3 44 (17.25%) Azure
4 41 (16.08%) Power Platform
5 32 (12.55%) Amazon EKS
6 30 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (6.27%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (3.92%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.75%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (2.35%) Cloudflare
13 6 (2.35%) GCP
13 6 (2.35%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.96%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) Broadband
1 1 (0.39%) Intranet
1 1 (0.39%) MQTT
1 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (27.84%) SQL Server
2 45 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (12.55%) Relational Database
4 25 (9.80%) Power BI
5 24 (9.41%) OLTP
6 20 (7.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (7.45%) NoSQL
8 17 (6.67%) MySQL
9 14 (5.49%) DynamoDB
9 14 (5.49%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.75%) MongoDB
12 6 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.78%) Metadata
15 2 (0.78%) Redis
16 1 (0.39%) Power Query
16 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 59 (23.14%) Git
2 41 (16.08%) Jenkins
3 38 (14.90%) JUnit
4 26 (10.20%) Visual Studio
5 22 (8.63%) Mockito
6 12 (4.71%) JMeter
7 11 (4.31%) JIRA
8 9 (3.53%) Selenium
9 7 (2.75%) Maven
10 6 (2.35%) GitLab
10 6 (2.35%) Jasmine
10 6 (2.35%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.96%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.96%) DbUnit
11 5 (1.96%) jMock
11 5 (1.96%) NUnit
11 5 (1.96%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (1.18%) Mocha
13 2 (0.78%) Vite
General
1 40 (15.69%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 27 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.49%) Law
5 11 (4.31%) Finance
6 7 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.35%) Electronics
7 6 (2.35%) Marketing
7 6 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.35%) Retail
8 5 (1.96%) Games
8 5 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.78%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.39%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (34.12%) .NET
2 82 (32.16%) React
3 61 (23.92%) HTML
4 44 (17.25%) REST
4 44 (17.25%) XML
5 42 (16.47%) Spring
6 39 (15.29%) Spring Boot
7 38 (14.90%) Web Services
8 36 (14.12%) SOAP
9 33 (12.94%) RESTful
10 32 (12.55%) AngularJS
11 31 (12.16%) ASP.NET
11 31 (12.16%) JSON
12 30 (11.76%) CSS
13 26 (10.20%) .NET Core
13 26 (10.20%) .NET Framework
13 26 (10.20%) Apache Camel
14 25 (9.80%) Node.js
15 22 (8.63%) Hibernate
16 20 (7.84%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (10.98%) Mobile App
3 11 (4.31%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.53%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.35%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.96%) Molecular Biology
7 3 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (0.78%) Acoustics
8 2 (0.78%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.78%) Social Media
8 2 (0.78%) Video Editing
9 1 (0.39%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.88%) Linux
2 5 (1.96%) Debian
2 5 (1.96%) Windows
2 5 (1.96%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.78%) Android
3 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (41.18%) Agile
2 60 (23.53%) Microservices
3 59 (23.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 56 (21.96%) DevOps
5 47 (18.43%) TDD
6 44 (17.25%) CI/CD
7 42 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (14.12%) Kanban
8 36 (14.12%) Workflow
9 33 (12.94%) Scrum
10 32 (12.55%) BDD
11 27 (10.59%) Project Management
11 27 (10.59%) SDLC
12 25 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (9.80%) Clean Code
13 24 (9.41%) Computer Science
14 21 (8.24%) Artificial Intelligence
15 19 (7.45%) Business Development
15 19 (7.45%) Customer-Centricity
15 19 (7.45%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 94 (36.86%) SQL
2 81 (31.76%) JavaScript
3 64 (25.10%) C#
4 58 (22.75%) Java
5 43 (16.86%) TypeScript
6 37 (14.51%) Python
7 24 (9.41%) PL/SQL
8 16 (6.27%) PHP
9 13 (5.10%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.53%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.75%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.75%) X++
12 5 (1.96%) C++
13 4 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.57%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.18%) Bash
14 3 (1.18%) C
15 2 (0.78%) Fortran
15 2 (0.78%) Go
15 2 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 44 (17.25%) Degree
2 35 (13.73%) Security Cleared
3 33 (12.94%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.71%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.14%) PhD
6 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) CCA
9 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.10%) SLA
2 5 (1.96%) WCAG
3 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.78%) QA
4 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 66 (25.88%) Docker
2 5 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.18%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 55 (21.57%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.88%) Ansible
3 12 (4.71%) Kibana
4 8 (3.14%) Terraform
5 2 (0.78%) Grafana
5 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 59 (23.14%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.41%) Oracle
3 12 (4.71%) Dynatrace
3 12 (4.71%) Splunk
4 6 (2.35%) Rollbar
5 3 (1.18%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (0.78%) Adobe
6 2 (0.78%) Facebook
6 2 (0.78%) IBM
6 2 (0.78%) Instagram
6 2 (0.78%) Sage
6 2 (0.78%) SAP
6 2 (0.78%) YouTube
7 1 (0.39%) Google
7 1 (0.39%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.39%) PayPal
7 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow