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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 178 485 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.44% 7.40% 9.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 8.62% 10.49%
Number of salaries quoted 129 355 338
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,796
25th Percentile £52,000 £46,250 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.30% -8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,500 £89,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +4.17%

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 2,583 5,626 5,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.42% 85.85% 94.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,192 3,985 3,141
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -4.72% -3.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,725 £82,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,509 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.02% -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 April 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 April 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 -16 92 £67,500 +12.50% 119
Oxfordshire -6 48 £62,500 +13.64% 68
Buckinghamshire +9 38 £60,000 +14.28% 43
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 (3.93%) Confluence
2 2 (1.12%) Apache
2 2 (1.12%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Simulink
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 71 (39.89%) AWS
2 37 (20.79%) Azure
3 31 (17.42%) Amazon S3
4 29 (16.29%) Serverless
5 28 (15.73%) GitHub
6 25 (14.04%) Amazon SQS
6 25 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (12.36%) Amazon Kinesis
8 17 (9.55%) GCP
9 12 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (5.62%) SaaS
11 6 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.37%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.37%) IaaS
11 6 (3.37%) Slack
11 6 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.25%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (2.25%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) FTP
1 2 (1.12%) HTTP
1 2 (1.12%) MQTT
1 2 (1.12%) WAN
2 1 (0.56%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.22%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (14.61%) DynamoDB
3 23 (12.92%) Redis
4 22 (12.36%) MySQL
4 22 (12.36%) NoSQL
5 18 (10.11%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.06%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.93%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.12%) Power BI
9 1 (0.56%) Big Data
9 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.56%) GIS
9 1 (0.56%) Metadata
9 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.56%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 48 (26.97%) Git
2 22 (12.36%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.43%) JIRA
4 13 (7.30%) Selenium
5 11 (6.18%) Cypress.io
5 11 (6.18%) SoapUI
5 11 (6.18%) Visual Studio
6 7 (3.93%) GitLab
7 2 (1.12%) Moq
7 2 (1.12%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.56%) Babel
8 1 (0.56%) CMake
8 1 (0.56%) Gradle
8 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.56%) Vite
8 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 25 (14.04%) Advertising
2 24 (13.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (11.80%) Marketing
4 19 (10.67%) Retail
5 17 (9.55%) Social Skills
6 16 (8.99%) Manufacturing
7 11 (6.18%) Electronics
8 10 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (3.93%) Finance
10 6 (3.37%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.81%) Legal
12 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.12%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.56%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.56%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (64.61%) Software Engineer
2 51 (28.65%) Senior
3 30 (16.85%) Senior Software Engineer
4 24 (13.48%) Lead
5 19 (10.67%) Developer
6 13 (7.30%) Principal Engineer
6 13 (7.30%) Principal Software Engineer
6 13 (7.30%) Software Team Leader
6 13 (7.30%) Team Leader
7 11 (6.18%) Development Team Leader
7 11 (6.18%) Software Development Team Leader
8 9 (5.06%) Junior
8 9 (5.06%) Junior Software Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Embedded Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.37%) Graduate
11 6 (3.37%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (38.20%) React
2 44 (24.72%) .NET
3 35 (19.66%) AngularJS
4 34 (19.10%) Node.js
5 26 (14.61%) REST
6 21 (11.80%) CSS
6 21 (11.80%) HTML
6 21 (11.80%) Tailwind CSS
7 13 (7.30%) Jest
8 12 (6.74%) Web Services
9 11 (6.18%) Flutter
9 11 (6.18%) Laravel
10 10 (5.62%) LAMP
11 8 (4.49%) ASP.NET
12 7 (3.93%) RESTful
13 6 (3.37%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (3.37%) Django
13 6 (3.37%) Flask
13 6 (3.37%) Kafka
13 6 (3.37%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.36%) Algorithms
2 21 (11.80%) Blog
2 21 (11.80%) Digital Media
3 15 (8.43%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.74%) Data Structures
4 12 (6.74%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (6.18%) Public Cloud
6 8 (4.49%) IoT
6 8 (4.49%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.37%) Molecular Biology
7 6 (3.37%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.81%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.12%) Robotics
11 1 (0.56%) CUDA
11 1 (0.56%) Learning Management System
11 1 (0.56%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.22%) Linux
2 10 (5.62%) Unix
3 8 (4.49%) Android
3 8 (4.49%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.37%) Windows
5 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (46.63%) Agile
2 61 (34.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 37 (20.79%) Computer Science
4 36 (20.22%) DevOps
4 36 (20.22%) Scrum
5 33 (18.54%) E-Commerce
6 30 (16.85%) CI/CD
7 27 (15.17%) Continuous Delivery
7 27 (15.17%) Mathematics
8 25 (14.04%) User Experience
9 24 (13.48%) Artificial Intelligence
9 24 (13.48%) Microservices
10 22 (12.36%) Design Patterns
10 22 (12.36%) Epics
11 19 (10.67%) Physics
12 18 (10.11%) MVC
13 17 (9.55%) Machine Learning
13 17 (9.55%) Mentoring
13 17 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (8.99%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 74 (41.57%) Python
2 58 (32.58%) JavaScript
3 51 (28.65%) C#
4 50 (28.09%) TypeScript
5 40 (22.47%) SQL
6 36 (20.22%) C++
7 27 (15.17%) Java
8 22 (12.36%) C
9 19 (10.67%) Go
10 18 (10.11%) PHP
11 17 (9.55%) Ruby
12 11 (6.18%) Rust
13 10 (5.62%) Bash
13 10 (5.62%) Perl
14 9 (5.06%) Fortran
15 7 (3.93%) VB.NET
16 4 (2.25%) MATLAB
16 4 (2.25%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.56%) Embedded C
17 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (30.34%) Degree
2 22 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.80%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.99%) Master's Degree
5 11 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.62%) PhD
7 8 (4.49%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.49%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CBAP
8 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.74%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.56%) CDISC
System Software
1 56 (31.46%) Docker
2 4 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (32.02%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.30%) Terraform
3 6 (3.37%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.25%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.56%) Argo
5 1 (0.56%) Grafana
5 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.93%) Epicor
3 6 (3.37%) Sawtooth Software
4 5 (2.81%) Oracle
5 4 (2.25%) VMware
6 2 (1.12%) Apple
6 2 (1.12%) Google
7 1 (0.56%) Databricks
7 1 (0.56%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.56%) Salesforce