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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 65 15
Rank change year-on-year +53 -50 +7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 456 138 604
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 8.02% 4.11% 8.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.21% 4.43% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 334 113 476
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 4,066 3,116 5,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.53% 92.85% 82.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,815 1,197 3,991
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +18 208 £65,000 - 41
Buckinghamshire +60 140 £75,000 +25.00% 23
Berkshire +41 108 £62,500 -5.66% 43
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 (0.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 2 (0.44%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.44%) EPLAN
1 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 79 (17.32%) AWS
2 66 (14.47%) Azure
3 64 (14.04%) SaaS
4 29 (6.36%) GCP
5 14 (3.07%) GitHub
6 9 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (1.54%) Serverless
8 5 (1.10%) Figma
8 5 (1.10%) PaaS
9 4 (0.88%) Firebase
9 4 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.66%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.66%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.44%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.44%) Cloud Run
11 2 (0.44%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.44%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.44%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.66%) Broadband
1 3 (0.66%) DHCP
1 3 (0.66%) DNS
1 3 (0.66%) Firewall
2 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.22%) HTTP
3 1 (0.22%) Internet
3 1 (0.22%) Modbus
3 1 (0.22%) MQTT
3 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.22%) SpaceWire
3 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.44%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (4.39%) Git
2 9 (1.97%) Postman
3 8 (1.75%) Yeoman
4 6 (1.32%) GitLab
5 5 (1.10%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.88%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.66%) JIRA
8 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.44%) JUnit
8 2 (0.44%) MLflow
9 1 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 56 (12.28%) Manufacturing
2 36 (7.89%) Social Skills
3 19 (4.17%) Finance
4 14 (3.07%) Aerospace
5 13 (2.85%) Electronics
6 12 (2.63%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.10%) Games
11 4 (0.88%) Law
12 3 (0.66%) Automotive
13 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.44%) Retail
14 1 (0.22%) Aeronautics
14 1 (0.22%) Aviation
14 1 (0.22%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.22%) Military
14 1 (0.22%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 345 (75.66%) Software Engineer
2 119 (26.10%) Senior
3 96 (21.05%) Senior Software Engineer
4 58 (12.72%) C# Software Engineer
5 54 (11.84%) Embedded Engineer
6 53 (11.62%) Lead
7 52 (11.40%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 43 (9.43%) Python Engineer
9 41 (8.99%) Python Software Engineer
10 39 (8.55%) C++ Software Engineer
11 36 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
12 30 (6.58%) .NET Software Engineer
13 29 (6.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 29 (6.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 29 (6.36%) Lead Software Engineer
14 26 (5.70%) Principal Software Engineer
15 24 (5.26%) Developer
16 22 (4.82%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 22 (4.82%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
17 19 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (21.93%) .NET
2 22 (4.82%) React
3 18 (3.95%) REST
4 17 (3.73%) WPF
5 14 (3.07%) .NET Framework
6 11 (2.41%) RESTful
7 10 (2.19%) Django
8 8 (1.75%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.75%) WebSockets
9 7 (1.54%) .NET Core
9 7 (1.54%) Node.js
10 6 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (1.10%) Blazor
11 5 (1.10%) JSON
11 5 (1.10%) Playwright
11 5 (1.10%) Twisted
11 5 (1.10%) Web Services
12 4 (0.88%) ASP.NET
12 4 (0.88%) SOAP
12 4 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (3.95%) Client/Server
2 18 (3.95%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.07%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.85%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (2.63%) IoT
5 12 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.63%) Smart Energy
6 9 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.97%) Life Science
7 7 (1.54%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.32%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.10%) SCADA
9 5 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.10%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.88%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.80%) Linux
2 4 (0.88%) Android
2 4 (0.88%) Windows
3 1 (0.22%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (13.16%) Agile
2 53 (11.62%) Full-Stack Development
3 49 (10.75%) Test Automation
4 41 (8.99%) CI/CD
5 40 (8.77%) Computer Science
5 40 (8.77%) Mentoring
5 40 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (7.68%) AI
7 31 (6.80%) Containerisation
7 31 (6.80%) DevOps
8 28 (6.14%) TDD
9 27 (5.92%) Code Quality
9 27 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (5.04%) Event-Driven
11 21 (4.61%) Machine Learning
12 18 (3.95%) Design Patterns
12 18 (3.95%) Microservices
13 16 (3.51%) Roadmaps
14 14 (3.07%) Collaborative Culture
14 14 (3.07%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (24.34%) C#
2 76 (16.67%) Python
3 67 (14.69%) C++
4 29 (6.36%) C
5 25 (5.48%) SQL
6 23 (5.04%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.61%) JavaScript
8 15 (3.29%) Java
9 14 (3.07%) Rust
10 6 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.88%) Bash
12 3 (0.66%) Go
12 3 (0.66%) PHP
12 3 (0.66%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.44%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.22%) Ruby
14 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 86 (18.86%) Degree
2 59 (12.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.19%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.19%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.54%) PhD
4 7 (1.54%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.88%) AWS Certification
5 4 (0.88%) Azure Certification
5 4 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.88%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (0.66%) HNC
6 3 (0.66%) HND
7 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.44%) NVQ Level 3
7 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.99%) QA
2 3 (0.66%) GDPR
2 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.22%) ECSS
4 1 (0.22%) MISRA
4 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (5.92%) Docker
2 20 (4.39%) Firmware
3 17 (3.73%) Hyper-V
3 17 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.07%) KVM
5 6 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.97%) Terraform
3 3 (0.66%) Ansible
3 3 (0.66%) Grafana
3 3 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.73%) VMware
3 5 (1.10%) Salesforce
4 3 (0.66%) Allen-Bradley
4 3 (0.66%) Siemens
4 3 (0.66%) Wonderware
5 2 (0.44%) Databricks
5 2 (0.44%) Google
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle
6 1 (0.22%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.22%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.22%) Sparx