Software Engineering Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 91 12
Rank change year-on-year +79 -79 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 471 113 557
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 7.03% 3.11% 10.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.94% 3.46% 13.13%
Number of salaries quoted 331 92 392
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,750 £55,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.69% -10.77%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £76,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £99,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,737 3,266 4,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.69% 90.02% 81.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,299 1,447 2,642
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,976
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Oxfordshire +18 196 £65,000 -7.14% 81
Berkshire +67 150 £65,000 -17.46% 85
Buckinghamshire +62 125 £80,000 +52.38% 38
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
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 4 (0.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.21%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 14 (2.97%) Lightworks
2 3 (0.64%) Simulink
3 2 (0.42%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.42%) EPLAN
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 99 (21.02%) AWS
2 77 (16.35%) Azure
3 52 (11.04%) SaaS
4 33 (7.01%) GCP
5 23 (4.88%) GitHub
6 12 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (2.55%) Firebase
7 9 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.49%) Cloud Run
9 7 (1.49%) Serverless
10 5 (1.06%) Figma
10 5 (1.06%) PaaS
11 4 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (0.64%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.42%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.55%) Wireless
2 5 (1.06%) MQTT
3 3 (0.64%) DHCP
3 3 (0.64%) DNS
3 3 (0.64%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.64%) Firewall
3 3 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
5 1 (0.21%) Modbus
5 1 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.49%) Pinecone
4 5 (1.06%) MySQL
5 4 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.64%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.21%) GIS
7 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (4.67%) Git
2 8 (1.70%) GitLab
2 8 (1.70%) Postman
2 8 (1.70%) Yeoman
3 6 (1.27%) Eclipse
3 6 (1.27%) Eclipse RCP
4 4 (0.85%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.85%) JIRA
4 4 (0.85%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.64%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.64%) JUnit
5 3 (0.64%) PetaLinux
5 3 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.42%) Subversion
6 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.21%) MLflow
7 1 (0.21%) Storybook
7 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 83 (17.62%) Manufacturing
2 56 (11.89%) Social Skills
3 25 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (5.31%) Finance
4 23 (4.88%) Aerospace
5 15 (3.18%) Electronics
6 10 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (1.49%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.06%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.85%) Automotive
9 4 (0.85%) Digital Health
9 4 (0.85%) Health Technology
9 4 (0.85%) Law
10 3 (0.64%) Banking
10 3 (0.64%) Games
11 1 (0.21%) Marketing
11 1 (0.21%) Retail
11 1 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 358 (76.01%) Software Engineer
2 99 (21.02%) Senior
3 86 (18.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 66 (14.01%) Embedded Engineer
5 64 (13.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 62 (13.16%) C# Software Engineer
7 53 (11.25%) Lead
8 51 (10.83%) Python Engineer
9 49 (10.40%) Python Software Engineer
10 36 (7.64%) C++ Software Engineer
11 35 (7.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 35 (7.43%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 32 (6.79%) Lead Software Engineer
13 27 (5.73%) .NET Software Engineer
13 27 (5.73%) Principal Engineer
14 22 (4.67%) Principal Software Engineer
15 18 (3.82%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 18 (3.82%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
16 17 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
17 16 (3.40%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (18.68%) .NET
2 34 (7.22%) React
3 20 (4.25%) REST
4 18 (3.82%) Django
5 17 (3.61%) WPF
6 12 (2.55%) .NET Framework
6 12 (2.55%) Node.js
7 10 (2.12%) RESTful
8 9 (1.91%) Vue
9 8 (1.70%) WebSockets
10 7 (1.49%) .NET Core
10 7 (1.49%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.49%) ASP.NET
10 7 (1.49%) JSON
10 7 (1.49%) pgvector
11 6 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (1.27%) Blazor
12 5 (1.06%) OAuth2
12 5 (1.06%) Swagger
12 5 (1.06%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.10%) Cloud Native
1 24 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (4.25%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.76%) AI Agents
4 13 (2.76%) Client/Server
5 12 (2.55%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (2.34%) Embedded Systems
6 11 (2.34%) Life Science
7 10 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.91%) IoT
8 9 (1.91%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.27%) Smart Energy
10 5 (1.06%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.06%) SCADA
10 5 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.85%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.49%) Linux
2 5 (1.06%) Windows
3 4 (0.85%) Debian
4 3 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (0.64%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (15.92%) Agile
2 69 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (14.23%) Test Automation
4 65 (13.80%) AI
5 58 (12.31%) Full-Stack Development
6 57 (12.10%) CI/CD
7 54 (11.46%) Mentoring
8 46 (9.77%) DevOps
9 40 (8.49%) Computer Science
10 39 (8.28%) Containerisation
11 31 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (6.58%) Design Patterns
12 29 (6.16%) Code Quality
12 29 (6.16%) Machine Learning
12 29 (6.16%) TDD
13 25 (5.31%) Event-Driven
14 23 (4.88%) Microservices
14 23 (4.88%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (4.46%) Open Source
16 20 (4.25%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 123 (26.11%) C#
2 100 (21.23%) Python
3 81 (17.20%) C++
4 38 (8.07%) C
5 36 (7.64%) TypeScript
6 29 (6.16%) JavaScript
7 25 (5.31%) Java
8 20 (4.25%) SQL
9 18 (3.82%) Rust
10 11 (2.34%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.49%) Bash
12 4 (0.85%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.85%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.64%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.64%) PHP
13 3 (0.64%) Ruby
14 2 (0.42%) Delphi
14 2 (0.42%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.42%) Pascal
15 1 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 88 (18.68%) Degree
2 64 (13.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.03%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.55%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.49%) PhD
7 5 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.64%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (0.64%) HNC
8 3 (0.64%) HND
9 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.42%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.07%) QA
2 5 (1.06%) MISRA
3 3 (0.64%) ECSS
3 3 (0.64%) GDPR
3 3 (0.64%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (8.28%) Docker
2 24 (5.10%) Firmware
3 13 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.55%) Hyper-V
5 10 (2.12%) KVM
6 6 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.97%) Terraform
3 6 (1.27%) Ansible
4 4 (0.85%) Podman
5 3 (0.64%) Grafana
5 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (5.10%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.76%) VMware
3 6 (1.27%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.06%) New Relic
5 3 (0.64%) Allen-Bradley
5 3 (0.64%) Databricks
5 3 (0.64%) Google
5 3 (0.64%) Siemens
5 3 (0.64%) Wonderware
5 3 (0.64%) Xilinx
6 1 (0.21%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.21%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.21%) Sage
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx