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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 8 32
Rank change year-on-year -75 +24 -21
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 106 576 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.99% 13.41% 6.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 15.93% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 82 300 159
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £45,360
25th Percentile £46,688 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.72%
75th Percentile £83,438 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £106,250
South East median annual salary £69,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -

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 3,108 3,615 3,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.57% 84.17% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,584 1,733 2,208
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,911 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £56,525 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.62% +2.77% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £70,406
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 11 November 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 11 November 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
Oxfordshire -15 39 £70,000 +16.67% 66
Berkshire -87 37 £80,000 +9.59% 70
Buckinghamshire -51 30 £43,750 -12.50% 27
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 12 (11.32%) IIS
2 3 (2.83%) CMS
3 2 (1.89%) Confluence
4 1 (0.94%) ArchestrA
4 1 (0.94%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.94%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.81%) Azure
2 17 (16.04%) AWS
3 14 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.66%) GCP
4 6 (5.66%) GitHub
4 6 (5.66%) Serverless
5 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (3.77%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.89%) SaaS
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.94%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.94%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.94%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) Firewall
2 3 (2.83%) DNS
2 3 (2.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.94%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.94%) Modbus
3 1 (0.94%) Profibus
3 1 (0.94%) RS-232
3 1 (0.94%) RS-485
3 1 (0.94%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 9 (8.49%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.77%) Power BI
4 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.89%) MySQL
6 1 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Git
2 2 (1.89%) GitLab
2 2 (1.89%) JIRA
3 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.94%) NUnit
3 1 (0.94%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (17.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.55%) Finance
3 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.72%) Aerospace
4 5 (4.72%) Games
5 4 (3.77%) Aviation
6 3 (2.83%) Agriculture
6 3 (2.83%) Military
6 3 (2.83%) Multimedia
6 3 (2.83%) Retail
6 3 (2.83%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.89%) Back Office
7 2 (1.89%) Law
7 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.89%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.94%) Automotive
8 1 (0.94%) Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Electronics
8 1 (0.94%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (50.94%) Software Engineer
2 19 (17.92%) Lead
2 19 (17.92%) Senior
3 13 (12.26%) Developer
3 13 (12.26%) IT Engineer
3 13 (12.26%) IT Support
3 13 (12.26%) IT Support Engineer
3 13 (12.26%) Software Support Engineer
3 13 (12.26%) Support Engineer
4 10 (9.43%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) Software Team Leader
5 9 (8.49%) Team Leader
6 8 (7.55%) Engineering Manager
6 8 (7.55%) Software Developer
6 8 (7.55%) Software Engineering Manager
6 8 (7.55%) Software Manager
7 7 (6.60%) Development Team Leader
7 7 (6.60%) Software Development Team Leader
8 6 (5.66%) Lead Software Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.70%) .NET
2 14 (13.21%) .NET Framework
2 14 (13.21%) ASP.NET
3 12 (11.32%) Entity Framework
3 12 (11.32%) WinForms
4 8 (7.55%) React
5 3 (2.83%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (2.83%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (2.83%) XML
6 2 (1.89%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.89%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.89%) Blazor
6 2 (1.89%) Spring
6 2 (1.89%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.94%) CSS3
7 1 (0.94%) HTML5
7 1 (0.94%) Kafka
7 1 (0.94%) Qt
7 1 (0.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Cloud Native
1 6 (5.66%) IoT
2 5 (4.72%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.83%) e-Learning
4 3 (2.83%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.83%) Smart Energy
4 3 (2.83%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.89%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.94%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.94%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.94%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.94%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.94%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.09%) Windows
2 5 (4.72%) Linux
3 4 (3.77%) Unix
4 1 (0.94%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.30%) Agile
2 28 (26.42%) DevOps
3 25 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (20.75%) Computer Science
5 17 (16.04%) SDLC
6 14 (13.21%) CI/CD
7 11 (10.38%) Data Management
7 11 (10.38%) Propensity Modelling
8 10 (9.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (7.55%) Mathematics
10 7 (6.60%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (6.60%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.60%) Physics
10 7 (6.60%) Scrum
10 7 (6.60%) Software Testing
10 7 (6.60%) TDD
11 6 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (5.66%) Data Science
11 6 (5.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (33.02%) SQL
2 27 (25.47%) C#
3 22 (20.75%) Python
4 14 (13.21%) C++
5 13 (12.26%) T-SQL
6 7 (6.60%) Bash
6 7 (6.60%) C
7 6 (5.66%) Java
7 6 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.77%) Fortran
8 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.83%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.83%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.83%) Ruby
10 2 (1.89%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.94%) Go
11 1 (0.94%) PHP
11 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (24.53%) Degree
2 16 (15.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (13.21%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.72%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.72%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.77%) PhD
6 3 (2.83%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) QA
2 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.83%) ECSS
3 2 (1.89%) GDPR
3 2 (1.89%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.89%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.94%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.94%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 3 (2.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (5.66%) Terraform
2 5 (4.72%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.83%) Ansible
4 2 (1.89%) Grafana
4 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (11.32%) Sage
1 12 (11.32%) Xamarin
2 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.66%) Google
4 5 (4.72%) Zoho
5 1 (0.94%) EMC
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle
5 1 (0.94%) Rockwell
5 1 (0.94%) Rollbar
5 1 (0.94%) Siemens
5 1 (0.94%) VMware