Software Engineering Jobs in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 21 19
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 161 520 584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.33% 7.72% 9.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 9.06% 10.04%
Number of salaries quoted 136 389 330
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,796
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%

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 2,806 5,737 5,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.88% 85.18% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 4,015 3,158
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,833 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 May 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 2 May 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
Berkshire -39 66 £67,500 +12.50% 100
Oxfordshire -1 64 £65,000 +18.18% 80
Buckinghamshire -5 31 £60,000 +11.63% 63
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 7 (4.35%) Confluence
2 4 (2.48%) CMS
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.62%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.62%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Simulink
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 44 (27.33%) AWS
2 32 (19.88%) Azure
3 18 (11.18%) GCP
4 12 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.59%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (4.35%) GitHub
8 6 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.73%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (3.73%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.73%) Slack
8 6 (3.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.11%) SaaS
10 4 (2.48%) IaaS
10 4 (2.48%) Serverless
11 3 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.24%) Firebase
12 2 (1.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.24%) MQTT
1 2 (1.24%) WAN
2 1 (0.62%) Broadband
2 1 (0.62%) FTP
2 1 (0.62%) HTTP
2 1 (0.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.42%) MySQL
2 16 (9.94%) NoSQL
3 15 (9.32%) SQL Server
4 12 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.59%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.48%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.24%) Metadata
8 2 (1.24%) Power BI
8 2 (1.24%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.62%) Big Data
9 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.62%) GIS
9 1 (0.62%) Redis
9 1 (0.62%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 41 (25.47%) Git
2 14 (8.70%) JIRA
3 9 (5.59%) Selenium
3 9 (5.59%) Visual Studio
4 8 (4.97%) Cypress.io
4 8 (4.97%) GitLab
4 8 (4.97%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.24%) Moq
5 2 (1.24%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.62%) Babel
6 1 (0.62%) CMake
6 1 (0.62%) Gradle
6 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.62%) Vite
6 1 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 19 (11.80%) Manufacturing
2 18 (11.18%) Retail
2 18 (11.18%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.45%) Finance
4 11 (6.83%) Electronics
5 10 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.48%) Advertising
6 4 (2.48%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.48%) Aviation
6 4 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.48%) Legal
6 4 (2.48%) Military
7 3 (1.86%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.62%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.62%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (62.73%) Software Engineer
2 44 (27.33%) Senior
3 24 (14.91%) Senior Software Engineer
4 22 (13.66%) Lead
5 16 (9.94%) Developer
6 10 (6.21%) Development Team Leader
6 10 (6.21%) Embedded Engineer
6 10 (6.21%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 10 (6.21%) Principal Engineer
6 10 (6.21%) Principal Software Engineer
6 10 (6.21%) Software Development Team Leader
6 10 (6.21%) Software Team Leader
6 10 (6.21%) Team Leader
7 7 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 7 (4.35%) Software Developer
8 6 (3.73%) Graduate
8 6 (3.73%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 5 (3.11%) Java Engineer
9 5 (3.11%) Junior
9 5 (3.11%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (24.84%) .NET
1 40 (24.84%) React
2 20 (12.42%) CSS
2 20 (12.42%) HTML
3 14 (8.70%) Node.js
4 12 (7.45%) Web Services
5 11 (6.83%) Laravel
6 10 (6.21%) AngularJS
6 10 (6.21%) Jest
6 10 (6.21%) LAMP
7 8 (4.97%) ASP.NET
8 7 (4.35%) Flutter
9 6 (3.73%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (3.73%) Django
9 6 (3.73%) Flask
9 6 (3.73%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (3.73%) Spring
10 5 (3.11%) REST
10 5 (3.11%) RESTful
10 5 (3.11%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.04%) Algorithms
2 14 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.45%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (6.83%) Data Structures
4 11 (6.83%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.73%) IoT
5 6 (3.73%) Molecular Biology
5 6 (3.73%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.11%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.48%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.48%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.86%) Hackathon
8 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.86%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.24%) Acoustics
9 2 (1.24%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.36%) Linux
2 11 (6.83%) Unix
3 8 (4.97%) Android
4 6 (3.73%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.11%) Windows
6 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (31.06%) Agile
2 36 (22.36%) Computer Science
3 32 (19.88%) DevOps
4 30 (18.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (16.77%) CI/CD
5 27 (16.77%) Mathematics
6 23 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 21 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
8 18 (11.18%) OOP
9 17 (10.56%) Microservices
9 17 (10.56%) MVC
9 17 (10.56%) Physics
10 15 (9.32%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (9.32%) Mentoring
11 14 (8.70%) Machine Learning
11 14 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (8.70%) Propensity Modelling
11 14 (8.70%) Software Testing
12 13 (8.07%) Open Source
13 12 (7.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 67 (41.61%) Python
2 51 (31.68%) JavaScript
3 46 (28.57%) SQL
4 43 (26.71%) C#
5 34 (21.12%) C++
6 27 (16.77%) TypeScript
7 23 (14.29%) Java
8 20 (12.42%) C
9 19 (11.80%) Go
10 16 (9.94%) PHP
11 15 (9.32%) Ruby
12 12 (7.45%) Bash
13 10 (6.21%) Fortran
13 10 (6.21%) Rust
14 7 (4.35%) Perl
14 7 (4.35%) VB.NET
15 4 (2.48%) MATLAB
15 4 (2.48%) PL/SQL
15 4 (2.48%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (30.43%) Degree
2 22 (13.66%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.94%) Master's Degree
3 16 (9.94%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (6.83%) PhD
5 10 (6.21%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.35%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.59%) QA
2 4 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) CDISC
System Software
1 30 (18.63%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (21.12%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.32%) Terraform
3 6 (3.73%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.48%) Grafana
4 4 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.24%) Ansible
5 2 (1.24%) Argo
5 2 (1.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.35%) Epicor
3 6 (3.73%) Sawtooth Software
4 3 (1.86%) Google
4 3 (1.86%) Oracle
5 2 (1.24%) Apple
5 2 (1.24%) VMware
6 1 (0.62%) Databricks
6 1 (0.62%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.62%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.62%) Salesforce