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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 8 25
Rank change year-on-year -104 +17 -20
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 102 611 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.60% 12.69% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 15.55% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 80 372 204
10th Percentile £50,848 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £49,688 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.44% +12.92%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £97,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £63,250
% change year-on-year +21.74% -9.09% +5.42%

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 3,539 3,930 3,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.14% 81.62% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,466 2,105 2,494
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -18 45 £70,000 +16.67% 32
Berkshire -97 44 £80,000 +14.29% 102
Buckinghamshire -73 13 £60,000 +20.00% 48
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.84%) Confluence
2 6 (5.88%) CMS
3 1 (0.98%) ArchestrA
3 1 (0.98%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.98%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (6.86%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.49%) AWS
2 15 (14.71%) Azure
3 12 (11.76%) GCP
4 6 (5.88%) Serverless
5 5 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.94%) GitHub
7 3 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.98%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.98%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.98%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) Firewall
2 3 (2.94%) DNS
2 3 (2.94%) VPN
3 2 (1.96%) MQTT
3 2 (1.96%) WAN
4 1 (0.98%) Modbus
4 1 (0.98%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.96%) Metadata
4 2 (1.96%) MySQL
4 2 (1.96%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.98%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (7.84%) JIRA
2 7 (6.86%) GitLab
3 6 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 6 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 6 (5.88%) Maven
3 6 (5.88%) Selenium
3 6 (5.88%) SonarQube
3 6 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.94%) Git
5 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.98%) NUnit
5 1 (0.98%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (19.61%) Finance
2 15 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.82%) Aerospace
3 9 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.86%) Aviation
4 7 (6.86%) Banking
4 7 (6.86%) Military
5 6 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.88%) Tech for Good
6 5 (4.90%) Games
6 5 (4.90%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.94%) Agriculture
7 3 (2.94%) Multimedia
7 3 (2.94%) Retail
8 2 (1.96%) Advertising
8 2 (1.96%) Back Office
8 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Law
9 1 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 50 (49.02%) Software Engineer
2 19 (18.63%) Lead
3 11 (10.78%) Developer
4 10 (9.80%) Senior
4 10 (9.80%) Systems Engineer
5 9 (8.82%) Software Manager
6 8 (7.84%) Development Team Leader
6 8 (7.84%) Engineering Manager
6 8 (7.84%) Software Development Team Leader
6 8 (7.84%) Software Engineering Manager
6 8 (7.84%) Software Team Leader
6 8 (7.84%) Team Leader
7 7 (6.86%) Software Developer
8 6 (5.88%) Ruby Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Lead Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.69%) React
2 12 (11.76%) Spring
3 10 (9.80%) .NET
3 10 (9.80%) CSS
3 10 (9.80%) HTML
4 8 (7.84%) Kafka
4 8 (7.84%) Ruby on Rails
4 8 (7.84%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.86%) XML
6 6 (5.88%) Hibernate
6 6 (5.88%) JPA
6 6 (5.88%) Redux
7 4 (3.92%) ASP.NET
7 4 (3.92%) Loki
8 3 (2.94%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.96%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.96%) gRPC
9 2 (1.96%) Node.js
9 2 (1.96%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.86%) e-Learning
1 7 (6.86%) Product Ownership
1 7 (6.86%) Reference Data
2 6 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.90%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.90%) IoT
4 3 (2.94%) Hackathon
4 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.94%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.96%) Acoustics
5 2 (1.96%) Clustering
5 2 (1.96%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.98%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.78%) Linux
2 5 (4.90%) Unix
3 3 (2.94%) Android
4 2 (1.96%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.98%) Windows
5 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (34.31%) Agile
2 24 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 22 (21.57%) DevOps
4 16 (15.69%) SDLC
4 16 (15.69%) TDD
5 13 (12.75%) Propensity Modelling
6 11 (10.78%) Computer Science
6 11 (10.78%) Containerisation
6 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (9.80%) Clean Code
7 10 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (9.80%) Microservices
8 9 (8.82%) Mathematics
9 8 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (7.84%) Collaborative Culture
9 8 (7.84%) Front End Development
9 8 (7.84%) Mentoring
9 8 (7.84%) Migration
9 8 (7.84%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (7.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.39%) SQL
2 26 (25.49%) Python
3 15 (14.71%) Java
4 13 (12.75%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.80%) Bash
6 8 (7.84%) C++
6 8 (7.84%) Ruby
7 7 (6.86%) C#
7 7 (6.86%) PL/SQL
8 6 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.90%) C
9 5 (4.90%) Fortran
9 5 (4.90%) Go
10 3 (2.94%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.96%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.96%) Rust
12 1 (0.98%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.98%) Swift
12 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.71%) Degree
3 6 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.90%) PhD
5 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.94%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) QA
2 7 (6.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.94%) GDPR
3 3 (2.94%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.94%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.98%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.98%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 13 (12.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.80%) Terraform
3 5 (4.90%) Ansible
3 5 (4.90%) Grafana
3 5 (4.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.98%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (5.88%) Solace
2 3 (2.94%) Google
2 3 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.98%) Databricks
3 1 (0.98%) Oracle
3 1 (0.98%) Rockwell
3 1 (0.98%) Rollbar
3 1 (0.98%) Siemens
3 1 (0.98%) VMware