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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 101 8
Rank change year-on-year +85 -93 +20
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 488 106 605
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.50% 2.76% 12.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.14% 3.05% 15.54%
Number of salaries quoted 349 81 333
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,982 £40,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%

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 5,340 3,473 3,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.13% 90.35% 83.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,813 1,462 1,891
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,275 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,625 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +23 212 £65,000 -7.14% 201
Berkshire +79 171 £80,000 -3.03% 139
Buckinghamshire +54 105 £77,500 +63.16% 44
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 (0.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.41%) Apache
2 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.20%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 23 (4.71%) Lightworks
2 4 (0.82%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 99 (20.29%) AWS
2 68 (13.93%) Azure
3 49 (10.04%) SaaS
4 27 (5.53%) GitHub
5 22 (4.51%) GCP
6 14 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (2.46%) Firebase
8 8 (1.64%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (1.64%) Serverless
9 7 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (1.43%) Cloud Run
10 6 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.02%) PaaS
12 4 (0.82%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.82%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.41%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.51%) Wireless
2 6 (1.23%) MQTT
3 5 (1.02%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.82%) HTTP
5 2 (0.41%) DHCP
5 2 (0.41%) DNS
5 2 (0.41%) Firewall
5 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.20%) NGN
6 1 (0.20%) SNMP
6 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.20%) VLAN
6 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 22 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.43%) Chroma
4 7 (1.43%) Pinecone
5 5 (1.02%) MySQL
6 2 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.20%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.20%) GIS
7 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (4.51%) Git
2 11 (2.25%) GitLab
3 7 (1.43%) Yeoman
4 6 (1.23%) Eclipse
4 6 (1.23%) Eclipse RCP
5 5 (1.02%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.02%) Postman
6 4 (0.82%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.82%) PetaLinux
7 3 (0.61%) JIRA
7 3 (0.61%) JUnit
7 3 (0.61%) MLflow
7 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.41%) Subversion
9 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.20%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.20%) Mocha
9 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.20%) Storybook
General
1 80 (16.39%) Manufacturing
2 67 (13.73%) Social Skills
3 36 (7.38%) Aerospace
4 31 (6.35%) Finance
5 24 (4.92%) Electronics
6 21 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (2.66%) Health Technology
8 9 (1.84%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.64%) Automotive
10 6 (1.23%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.23%) Retail
11 5 (1.02%) Banking
12 4 (0.82%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.82%) Law
13 3 (0.61%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.41%) Aviation
14 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.20%) Games
15 1 (0.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 384 (78.69%) Software Engineer
2 114 (23.36%) Senior
3 97 (19.88%) Senior Software Engineer
4 80 (16.39%) C# Software Engineer
5 66 (13.52%) Embedded Engineer
6 65 (13.32%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 58 (11.89%) Python Engineer
7 58 (11.89%) Python Software Engineer
8 45 (9.22%) C++ Software Engineer
9 39 (7.99%) Lead
10 31 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (6.15%) AWS Software Engineer
12 26 (5.33%) Lead Software Engineer
13 25 (5.12%) .NET Software Engineer
14 19 (3.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 18 (3.69%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 18 (3.69%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
16 17 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 17 (3.48%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 16 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (16.39%) .NET
2 36 (7.38%) React
3 25 (5.12%) WPF
4 19 (3.89%) Node.js
5 15 (3.07%) Django
6 14 (2.87%) React Native
7 12 (2.46%) Terraform
7 12 (2.46%) Vue
8 10 (2.05%) REST
9 9 (1.84%) RESTful
10 7 (1.43%) .NET Core
10 7 (1.43%) ASP.NET
10 7 (1.43%) pgvector
11 6 (1.23%) JSON
11 6 (1.23%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.02%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.02%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.02%) Blazor
12 5 (1.02%) Spring
12 5 (1.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.71%) Distributed Computing
2 22 (4.51%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.10%) Embedded Systems
4 17 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.87%) AI Agents
6 13 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.05%) Life Science
10 8 (1.64%) NHS
10 8 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.43%) Robotics
12 5 (1.02%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.02%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.82%) FPGA
13 4 (0.82%) IoT
13 4 (0.82%) Verilog
13 4 (0.82%) VHDL
13 4 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.79%) Linux
2 7 (1.43%) Debian
3 6 (1.23%) Android
3 6 (1.23%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.23%) Windows
4 4 (0.82%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.61%) Gentoo
5 3 (0.61%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (17.01%) AI
2 68 (13.93%) Agile
3 64 (13.11%) CI/CD
3 64 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (11.07%) Mentoring
5 52 (10.66%) Test Automation
6 49 (10.04%) DevOps
6 49 (10.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (8.20%) Computer Science
8 34 (6.97%) Containerisation
9 31 (6.35%) Design Patterns
10 28 (5.74%) Machine Learning
10 28 (5.74%) Open Source
11 27 (5.53%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
11 27 (5.53%) Finite Element Analysis
12 25 (5.12%) Code Quality
12 25 (5.12%) Microservices
12 25 (5.12%) SDLC
13 23 (4.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (4.51%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 139 (28.48%) C#
2 108 (22.13%) Python
3 91 (18.65%) C++
4 39 (7.99%) TypeScript
5 38 (7.79%) Java
6 35 (7.17%) JavaScript
7 32 (6.56%) C
8 26 (5.33%) SQL
9 15 (3.07%) Rust
10 12 (2.46%) PHP
11 11 (2.25%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.05%) Bash
13 4 (0.82%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.61%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.61%) Ruby
14 3 (0.61%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.41%) Delphi
15 2 (0.41%) Pascal
16 1 (0.20%) Embedded C
16 1 (0.20%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 88 (18.03%) Degree
2 63 (12.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.12%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.07%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.87%) PhD
7 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.20%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.53%) QA
2 8 (1.64%) MISRA
3 4 (0.82%) ECSS
4 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 34 (6.97%) Docker
2 16 (3.28%) Firmware
3 7 (1.43%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.41%) KVM
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (5.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.02%) Ansible
3 4 (0.82%) Podman
4 2 (0.41%) Grafana
4 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (4.51%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.66%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.64%) Sage
4 5 (1.02%) New Relic
5 4 (0.82%) Thales
5 4 (0.82%) VMware
5 4 (0.82%) Xilinx
6 3 (0.61%) Google
6 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.20%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.20%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.20%) Databricks
7 1 (0.20%) Sparx