Software Engineering Jobs in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 12 21
Rank change year-on-year -64 +9 -13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 136 674 493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.79% 9.53% 9.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 11.56% 9.76%
Number of salaries quoted 112 498 267
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,150
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £85,625 £73,438 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,250 £92,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +8.70%

All Process and 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 3,281 5,828 5,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.47% 82.41% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 3,842 2,978
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
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 the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 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 -58 60 £70,000 +16.67% 83
Oxfordshire -10 56 £67,500 +22.73% 79
Buckinghamshire -43 20 £56,250 +12.50% 33
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
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 9 (6.62%) Confluence
2 8 (5.88%) CMS
3 1 (0.74%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.74%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Simulink
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.74%) AWS
2 29 (21.32%) Azure
3 17 (12.50%) GCP
4 10 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (3.68%) GitHub
5 5 (3.68%) Serverless
6 4 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.94%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.47%) Azure API Management
8 2 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.47%) Firebase
8 2 (1.47%) IaaS
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (0.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.21%) DNS
1 3 (2.21%) Firewall
1 3 (2.21%) VPN
2 2 (1.47%) MQTT
2 2 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.24%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.41%) MySQL
3 6 (4.41%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.47%) Metadata
6 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.74%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 16 (11.76%) Git
1 16 (11.76%) JIRA
2 9 (6.62%) Selenium
2 9 (6.62%) Visual Studio
3 8 (5.88%) GitLab
4 6 (4.41%) Bitbucket
4 6 (4.41%) Cucumber
4 6 (4.41%) Maven
4 6 (4.41%) SonarQube
4 6 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.47%) Moq
5 2 (1.47%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.47%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.74%) CMake
6 1 (0.74%) Gradle
6 1 (0.74%) NUnit
6 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (16.18%) Finance
2 21 (15.44%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.82%) Retail
4 10 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.15%) Aerospace
6 7 (5.15%) Aviation
6 7 (5.15%) Banking
6 7 (5.15%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.15%) Military
6 7 (5.15%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.94%) Agriculture
7 4 (2.94%) Electronics
7 4 (2.94%) Games
8 3 (2.21%) Advertising
8 3 (2.21%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
Job Titles
1 78 (57.35%) Software Engineer
2 21 (15.44%) Lead
2 21 (15.44%) Senior
3 15 (11.03%) Developer
4 8 (5.88%) Development Team Leader
4 8 (5.88%) Embedded Engineer
4 8 (5.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 8 (5.88%) Software Developer
4 8 (5.88%) Software Development Team Leader
4 8 (5.88%) Software Team Leader
4 8 (5.88%) Team Leader
5 7 (5.15%) Ruby Engineer
5 7 (5.15%) Senior Developer
5 7 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (5.15%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (3.68%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (3.68%) Graduate
6 5 (3.68%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 5 (3.68%) Software Manager
7 4 (2.94%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.59%) React
2 22 (16.18%) .NET
3 16 (11.76%) CSS
3 16 (11.76%) HTML
4 13 (9.56%) Spring
5 10 (7.35%) AngularJS
5 10 (7.35%) ASP.NET
6 9 (6.62%) Kafka
6 9 (6.62%) Ruby on Rails
7 8 (5.88%) Node.js
7 8 (5.88%) Redux
7 8 (5.88%) Spring Boot
8 7 (5.15%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (5.15%) XML
9 6 (4.41%) Hibernate
9 6 (4.41%) JPA
10 5 (3.68%) Jest
10 5 (3.68%) Loki
10 5 (3.68%) Web Services
11 4 (2.94%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.29%) Algorithms
2 12 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.35%) Public Cloud
4 9 (6.62%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.15%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.15%) e-Learning
5 7 (5.15%) IoT
5 7 (5.15%) Reference Data
6 6 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.68%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.68%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.94%) Hackathon
9 3 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.21%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.47%) Acoustics
10 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.47%) Robotics
10 2 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.71%) Linux
2 7 (5.15%) Unix
3 5 (3.68%) Android
4 3 (2.21%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.21%) Windows
5 2 (1.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (35.29%) Agile
2 33 (24.26%) DevOps
3 29 (21.32%) Computer Science
4 27 (19.85%) CI/CD
5 23 (16.91%) Mathematics
6 19 (13.97%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (12.50%) TDD
8 15 (11.03%) SDLC
9 14 (10.29%) Clean Code
9 14 (10.29%) Containerisation
9 14 (10.29%) Mentoring
9 14 (10.29%) Microservices
10 13 (9.56%) Design Patterns
10 13 (9.56%) Physics
10 13 (9.56%) Propensity Modelling
11 12 (8.82%) Collaborative Culture
11 12 (8.82%) Front End Development
11 12 (8.82%) MVC
11 12 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (8.09%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.29%) SQL
2 44 (32.35%) Python
3 29 (21.32%) JavaScript
4 25 (18.38%) C#
5 21 (15.44%) Java
6 18 (13.24%) C++
7 14 (10.29%) TypeScript
8 11 (8.09%) Bash
9 10 (7.35%) Go
10 9 (6.62%) PHP
10 9 (6.62%) Ruby
11 8 (5.88%) C
12 7 (5.15%) PL/SQL
13 6 (4.41%) Fortran
14 3 (2.21%) MATLAB
14 3 (2.21%) PowerShell
15 2 (1.47%) Rust
16 1 (0.74%) MicroPython
16 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 38 (27.94%) Degree
2 21 (15.44%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (8.09%) Master's Degree
5 9 (6.62%) SC Cleared
6 7 (5.15%) PhD
7 6 (4.41%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.41%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (2.21%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) QA
2 7 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.21%) GDPR
3 3 (2.21%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.21%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) CDISC
System Software
1 21 (15.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.82%) Terraform
3 6 (4.41%) Grafana
3 6 (4.41%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.68%) Ansible
5 1 (0.74%) Argo
5 1 (0.74%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 11 (8.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.41%) Solace
3 4 (2.94%) Google
4 2 (1.47%) Apple
4 2 (1.47%) Oracle
5 1 (0.74%) Databricks
5 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.74%) Rollbar
5 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.74%) Sawtooth Software