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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 40 21
Rank change year-on-year +30 -19 -2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 441 160 478
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 7.99% 5.48% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.01% 5.91% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 314 132 387
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,547
Median % change year-on-year - +12.95% -9.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £88,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -8.00%

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 4,005 2,707 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.58% 92.77% 84.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,593 1,219 4,036
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +13 202 £65,000 - 46
Buckinghamshire +29 133 £73,750 +22.92% 17
Berkshire +27 106 £65,000 - 20
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 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.23%) ArchestrA
2 1 (0.23%) CMS
2 1 (0.23%) IIS
2 1 (0.23%) Kinematics
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.45%) EPLAN
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 53 (12.02%) AWS
2 48 (10.88%) Azure
2 48 (10.88%) SaaS
3 24 (5.44%) GCP
4 11 (2.49%) GitHub
5 5 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.13%) Figma
5 5 (1.13%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.13%) Serverless
6 3 (0.68%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.45%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (0.45%) Prefect
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.68%) Broadband
2 2 (0.45%) Modbus
2 2 (0.45%) SpaceWire
3 1 (0.23%) DHCP
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.23%) Internet
3 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.68%) Power BI
4 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.45%) MySQL
4 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (4.99%) Git
2 5 (1.13%) Postman
2 5 (1.13%) SpecFlow
3 4 (0.91%) GitLab
3 4 (0.91%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.68%) JIRA
4 3 (0.68%) MLflow
4 3 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.68%) Yeoman
5 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.23%) Subversion
6 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (7.94%) Manufacturing
2 26 (5.90%) Social Skills
3 14 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (3.17%) Public Sector
4 11 (2.49%) Electronics
4 11 (2.49%) Finance
5 10 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (1.36%) Aerospace
6 6 (1.36%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.13%) Games
8 4 (0.91%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.68%) Aviation
10 2 (0.45%) Automotive
10 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.45%) Law
10 2 (0.45%) Military
10 2 (0.45%) Retail
11 1 (0.23%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 305 (69.16%) Software Engineer
2 127 (28.80%) Senior
3 89 (20.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 50 (11.34%) Developer
5 47 (10.66%) Embedded Engineer
6 45 (10.20%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 44 (9.98%) Lead
8 41 (9.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 41 (9.30%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 39 (8.84%) Principal Engineer
10 36 (8.16%) Senior Developer
11 35 (7.94%) Python Engineer
12 33 (7.48%) C++ Software Engineer
12 33 (7.48%) Python Software Engineer
13 30 (6.80%) Principal Software Engineer
14 28 (6.35%) C# Software Engineer
15 21 (4.76%) Software Developer
16 19 (4.31%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 19 (4.31%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
17 17 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (17.46%) .NET
2 16 (3.63%) React
3 15 (3.40%) REST
4 12 (2.72%) ASP.NET
5 11 (2.49%) .NET Framework
6 7 (1.59%) .NET Core
6 7 (1.59%) Django
6 7 (1.59%) Entity Framework
6 7 (1.59%) WPF
7 6 (1.36%) Blazor
7 6 (1.36%) RESTful
7 6 (1.36%) TensorFlow
8 5 (1.13%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.13%) Twisted
8 5 (1.13%) Web Services
8 5 (1.13%) WebSockets
9 4 (0.91%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.91%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (0.91%) PyTorch
9 4 (0.91%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (4.54%) IoT
2 20 (4.54%) Smart Energy
3 13 (2.95%) Client/Server
3 13 (2.95%) Embedded Systems
4 12 (2.72%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.36%) Life Science
8 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.13%) Robotics
8 5 (1.13%) SCADA
8 5 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (0.91%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.91%) N-Tier
10 3 (0.68%) CUDA
10 3 (0.68%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.90%) Linux
2 8 (1.81%) Android
3 5 (1.13%) Windows
4 2 (0.45%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (14.06%) Full-Stack Development
2 36 (8.16%) Agile
2 36 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (7.48%) Test Automation
4 32 (7.26%) Computer Science
5 31 (7.03%) CI/CD
6 29 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (5.67%) AI
8 22 (4.99%) Containerisation
9 21 (4.76%) Code Quality
9 21 (4.76%) Mentoring
10 20 (4.54%) Energy Management
10 20 (4.54%) Storage Management
11 19 (4.31%) TDD
12 18 (4.08%) Roadmaps
13 17 (3.85%) DevOps
13 17 (3.85%) Machine Learning
14 14 (3.17%) Microservices
14 14 (3.17%) Software Testing
15 13 (2.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 73 (16.55%) C#
1 73 (16.55%) Python
2 61 (13.83%) C++
3 31 (7.03%) SQL
4 23 (5.22%) C
5 21 (4.76%) Java
6 19 (4.31%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.95%) Rust
9 4 (0.91%) PHP
9 4 (0.91%) Ruby
10 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.68%) Go
10 3 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.45%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.23%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 58 (13.15%) Degree
2 41 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.27%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.36%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.91%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.68%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.68%) HNC
6 3 (0.68%) HND
6 3 (0.68%) PhD
7 2 (0.45%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.45%) NVQ Level 3
7 2 (0.45%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.16%) QA
2 4 (0.91%) ECSS
3 3 (0.68%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.23%) MISRA
4 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (5.22%) Docker
2 16 (3.63%) Firmware
3 14 (3.17%) Hyper-V
3 14 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.95%) KVM
5 5 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.91%) Terraform
3 1 (0.23%) Ansible
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (3.17%) VMware
2 10 (2.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.68%) Allen-Bradley
3 3 (0.68%) Siemens
3 3 (0.68%) Wonderware
4 2 (0.45%) Databricks
4 2 (0.45%) Google
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle
5 1 (0.23%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.23%) Sage
5 1 (0.23%) Xamarin