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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 113 10
Rank change year-on-year +99 -103 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 472 99 613
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.61% 2.50% 12.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.39% 2.78% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 335 79 374
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,848 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £84,375 £91,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% -10.16%

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 5,029 3,555 3,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.47% 89.82% 81.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,581 1,482 2,135
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,220
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,625 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +22 205 £60,000 -14.29% 75
Berkshire +88 156 £75,000 -11.76% 63
Buckinghamshire +62 111 £75,000 +25.00% 20
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 4 (0.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.21%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 18 (3.81%) Lightworks
2 3 (0.64%) Simulink
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 97 (20.55%) AWS
2 73 (15.47%) Azure
3 49 (10.38%) SaaS
4 27 (5.72%) GCP
5 25 (5.30%) GitHub
6 13 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (2.54%) Firebase
8 8 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (1.48%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (1.48%) Cloud Run
10 6 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.27%) Serverless
11 5 (1.06%) PaaS
12 4 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.64%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.64%) Figma
14 2 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (0.42%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.39%) Wireless
2 5 (1.06%) MQTT
3 4 (0.85%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.64%) DHCP
4 3 (0.64%) DNS
4 3 (0.64%) Firewall
5 2 (0.42%) HTTP
5 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.21%) Broadband
6 1 (0.21%) Internet
6 1 (0.21%) NGN
6 1 (0.21%) SNMP
6 1 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.21%) VLAN
6 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.48%) Chroma
3 7 (1.48%) Pinecone
4 5 (1.06%) MySQL
4 5 (1.06%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.21%) GIS
6 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (5.30%) Git
2 11 (2.33%) GitLab
3 7 (1.48%) Postman
3 7 (1.48%) Yeoman
4 6 (1.27%) Eclipse
4 6 (1.27%) Eclipse RCP
5 5 (1.06%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.85%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.85%) JIRA
7 3 (0.64%) JUnit
7 3 (0.64%) MLflow
7 3 (0.64%) PetaLinux
7 3 (0.64%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.64%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.42%) Subversion
9 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.21%) Storybook
9 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 87 (18.43%) Manufacturing
2 67 (14.19%) Social Skills
3 29 (6.14%) Aerospace
4 26 (5.51%) Finance
5 25 (5.30%) Electronics
6 24 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.48%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.27%) Automotive
8 6 (1.27%) Health Technology
8 6 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (0.85%) Digital Health
9 4 (0.85%) Law
9 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.64%) Banking
11 2 (0.42%) Aviation
11 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.42%) Retail
12 1 (0.21%) Games
12 1 (0.21%) Marketing
12 1 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 369 (78.18%) Software Engineer
2 104 (22.03%) Senior
3 92 (19.49%) Senior Software Engineer
4 71 (15.04%) C# Software Engineer
5 66 (13.98%) Embedded Engineer
6 64 (13.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 54 (11.44%) Python Engineer
8 52 (11.02%) Python Software Engineer
9 45 (9.53%) Lead
10 40 (8.47%) C++ Software Engineer
11 28 (5.93%) Lead Software Engineer
12 26 (5.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 26 (5.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 24 (5.08%) .NET Software Engineer
14 21 (4.45%) Principal Engineer
15 20 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
15 20 (4.24%) Principal Software Engineer
16 19 (4.03%) AWS Software Engineer
17 18 (3.81%) Senior Embedded Engineer
17 18 (3.81%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (16.74%) .NET
2 35 (7.42%) React
3 26 (5.51%) WPF
4 18 (3.81%) Django
5 16 (3.39%) REST
6 15 (3.18%) Node.js
7 14 (2.97%) Terraform
8 11 (2.33%) React Native
8 11 (2.33%) Vue
9 10 (2.12%) RESTful
10 8 (1.69%) .NET Framework
11 7 (1.48%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.48%) JSON
11 7 (1.48%) pgvector
12 6 (1.27%) .NET Core
12 6 (1.27%) AngularJS
12 6 (1.27%) Blazor
12 6 (1.27%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.27%) TensorFlow
12 6 (1.27%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.66%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.39%) Embedded Systems
4 16 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.18%) Distributed Computing
6 13 (2.75%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.33%) Life Science
8 10 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.91%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (1.69%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.27%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.06%) IoT
12 5 (1.06%) Robotics
12 5 (1.06%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.85%) NHS
13 4 (0.85%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.47%) Linux
2 7 (1.48%) Debian
3 5 (1.06%) Windows
4 3 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (0.64%) Gentoo
4 3 (0.64%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.42%) Android
5 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (15.89%) Agile
1 75 (15.89%) AI
2 70 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (12.92%) CI/CD
4 59 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 52 (11.02%) Mentoring
6 51 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (9.96%) DevOps
8 44 (9.32%) Computer Science
9 40 (8.47%) Containerisation
10 33 (6.99%) Design Patterns
11 32 (6.78%) Machine Learning
12 28 (5.93%) Code Quality
13 27 (5.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (5.30%) Open Source
15 24 (5.08%) TDD
16 23 (4.87%) SDLC
17 22 (4.66%) Event-Driven
18 21 (4.45%) Microservices
19 19 (4.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 130 (27.54%) C#
2 107 (22.67%) Python
3 82 (17.37%) C++
4 39 (8.26%) TypeScript
5 34 (7.20%) C
6 31 (6.57%) JavaScript
7 30 (6.36%) Java
8 22 (4.66%) SQL
9 13 (2.75%) Rust
10 11 (2.33%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.12%) Bash
12 4 (0.85%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.85%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.64%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.64%) PHP
13 3 (0.64%) Ruby
14 2 (0.42%) Delphi
14 2 (0.42%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.42%) Pascal
15 1 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 92 (19.49%) Degree
2 65 (13.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (4.87%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.18%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.75%) PhD
7 5 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.21%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.21%) HNC
9 1 (0.21%) HND
9 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.63%) QA
2 6 (1.27%) MISRA
3 4 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.64%) ECSS
4 3 (0.64%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (8.69%) Docker
2 18 (3.81%) Firmware
3 8 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.48%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.06%) KVM
6 4 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (5.72%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.27%) Ansible
3 4 (0.85%) Podman
4 3 (0.64%) Grafana
4 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (5.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.54%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.69%) VMware
4 7 (1.48%) Sage
5 5 (1.06%) New Relic
6 3 (0.64%) Databricks
6 3 (0.64%) Google
6 3 (0.64%) NVIDIA
6 3 (0.64%) Thales
6 3 (0.64%) Xilinx
7 1 (0.21%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (0.21%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.21%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.21%) Siemens
7 1 (0.21%) Sparx
7 1 (0.21%) Wonderware