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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 39 20
Rank change year-on-year +29 -19 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 440 162 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 8.01% 5.60% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.02% 6.03% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 313 132 390
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,524
Median % change year-on-year - +13.00% -7.96%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £87,750
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 3,994 2,685 5,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.67% 92.78% 84.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,585 1,219 4,042
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 26 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 26 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 - 41
Buckinghamshire +27 132 £73,750 +22.92% 17
Berkshire +24 106 £65,000 - 22
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 (12.05%) AWS
2 48 (10.91%) Azure
2 48 (10.91%) SaaS
3 24 (5.45%) GCP
4 11 (2.50%) GitHub
5 6 (1.36%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.14%) Figma
6 5 (1.14%) Serverless
7 3 (0.68%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.45%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (0.45%) Prefect
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon S3
9 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 25 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.91%) 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 (5.00%) Git
2 5 (1.14%) Postman
2 5 (1.14%) 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 (7.95%) Manufacturing
2 27 (6.14%) Social Skills
3 15 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (3.18%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.50%) Electronics
5 11 (2.50%) Finance
6 10 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (1.36%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.36%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.14%) Games
9 4 (0.91%) Tech for Good
10 3 (0.68%) Aviation
11 2 (0.45%) Automotive
11 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.45%) Law
11 2 (0.45%) Military
11 2 (0.45%) Retail
12 1 (0.23%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 303 (68.86%) Software Engineer
2 126 (28.64%) Senior
3 88 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 50 (11.36%) Developer
5 46 (10.45%) Embedded Engineer
6 44 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 44 (10.00%) Lead
7 40 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 40 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 39 (8.86%) Principal Engineer
9 36 (8.18%) Senior Developer
10 35 (7.95%) Python Engineer
11 33 (7.50%) C++ Software Engineer
11 33 (7.50%) Python Software Engineer
12 30 (6.82%) Principal Software Engineer
13 28 (6.36%) C# Software Engineer
14 21 (4.77%) Software Developer
15 19 (4.32%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 19 (4.32%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
16 17 (3.86%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (17.27%) .NET
2 16 (3.64%) React
3 15 (3.41%) REST
4 12 (2.73%) ASP.NET
5 11 (2.50%) .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 (1.14%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.14%) Twisted
8 5 (1.14%) Web Services
8 5 (1.14%) 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 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (4.55%) IoT
2 20 (4.55%) Smart Energy
3 13 (2.95%) Client/Server
4 12 (2.73%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.73%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.36%) Life Science
8 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.14%) Robotics
8 5 (1.14%) SCADA
8 5 (1.14%) 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 (5.91%) Linux
2 8 (1.82%) Android
3 5 (1.14%) Windows
4 2 (0.45%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (13.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 37 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (8.18%) Agile
4 33 (7.50%) Test Automation
5 32 (7.27%) Computer Science
6 31 (7.05%) CI/CD
7 30 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (5.68%) AI
9 22 (5.00%) Containerisation
10 21 (4.77%) Code Quality
10 21 (4.77%) Mentoring
11 20 (4.55%) Energy Management
11 20 (4.55%) Storage Management
12 19 (4.32%) TDD
13 18 (4.09%) Roadmaps
14 17 (3.86%) DevOps
14 17 (3.86%) Machine Learning
15 14 (3.18%) Microservices
15 14 (3.18%) Software Testing
16 13 (2.95%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (16.82%) C#
1 74 (16.82%) Python
2 61 (13.86%) C++
3 32 (7.27%) SQL
4 23 (5.23%) C
5 21 (4.77%) Java
6 19 (4.32%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.18%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.95%) Rust
9 4 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.91%) PHP
9 4 (0.91%) Ruby
10 3 (0.68%) Go
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 (13.18%) Degree
2 41 (9.32%) 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 (8.18%) 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 (5.23%) Docker
2 16 (3.64%) Firmware
3 14 (3.18%) Hyper-V
3 14 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.95%) KVM
5 5 (1.14%) 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 (3.18%) 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