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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 52 21
Rank change year-on-year +42 -31 -1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 450 156 485
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 8.08% 4.65% 7.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.22% 4.95% 8.85%
Number of salaries quoted 330 128 390
10th Percentile £48,375 £40,000 £37,400
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -10.16%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £74,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -11.54%

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 4,012 3,149 5,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.04% 93.92% 84.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,704 1,232 3,901
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +18 206 £65,000 - 35
Buckinghamshire +52 138 £75,000 +25.00% 18
Berkshire +35 106 £63,750 -3.77% 41
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 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.22%) ArchestrA
2 1 (0.22%) CMS
2 1 (0.22%) Kinematics
Applications
1 2 (0.44%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.44%) EPLAN
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 63 (14.00%) AWS
2 59 (13.11%) SaaS
3 53 (11.78%) Azure
4 25 (5.56%) GCP
5 12 (2.67%) GitHub
6 7 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (1.56%) Serverless
7 5 (1.11%) Figma
8 3 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (0.67%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.67%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.44%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.44%) PaaS
9 2 (0.44%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.44%) Prefect
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.67%) Broadband
1 3 (0.67%) DHCP
1 3 (0.67%) DNS
1 3 (0.67%) Firewall
2 2 (0.44%) Modbus
3 1 (0.22%) Internet
3 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.22%) SpaceWire
3 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.44%) MySQL
3 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (4.89%) Git
2 7 (1.56%) Postman
2 7 (1.56%) Yeoman
3 5 (1.11%) SpecFlow
4 4 (0.89%) GitLab
5 3 (0.67%) JIRA
5 3 (0.67%) MLflow
5 3 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.22%) JUnit
7 1 (0.22%) Subversion
7 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (10.22%) Manufacturing
2 28 (6.22%) Social Skills
3 16 (3.56%) Public Sector
4 12 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (2.67%) Electronics
4 12 (2.67%) Finance
5 10 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.11%) Games
7 5 (1.11%) Telecoms
8 4 (0.89%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.44%) Law
9 2 (0.44%) Retail
10 1 (0.22%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.22%) Automotive
10 1 (0.22%) Aviation
10 1 (0.22%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 317 (70.44%) Software Engineer
2 127 (28.22%) Senior
3 90 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 55 (12.22%) Lead
5 50 (11.11%) Embedded Engineer
6 48 (10.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 45 (10.00%) Developer
8 40 (8.89%) C# Software Engineer
9 37 (8.22%) Python Engineer
10 36 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
11 35 (7.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 35 (7.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 35 (7.78%) Python Software Engineer
12 34 (7.56%) C++ Software Engineer
12 34 (7.56%) Senior Developer
13 27 (6.00%) Principal Software Engineer
14 25 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (4.67%) .NET Software Engineer
16 20 (4.44%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 20 (4.44%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (20.00%) .NET
2 19 (4.22%) React
3 17 (3.78%) REST
4 12 (2.67%) .NET Framework
4 12 (2.67%) WPF
5 9 (2.00%) ASP.NET
5 9 (2.00%) RESTful
6 8 (1.78%) .NET Core
6 8 (1.78%) Django
7 7 (1.56%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.33%) Blazor
8 6 (1.33%) Entity Framework
8 6 (1.33%) Node.js
8 6 (1.33%) TensorFlow
8 6 (1.33%) WebSockets
9 5 (1.11%) Middleware
9 5 (1.11%) Twisted
9 5 (1.11%) Web Services
10 4 (0.89%) SOAP
10 4 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (3.78%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.33%) Client/Server
3 15 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
3 15 (3.33%) IoT
3 15 (3.33%) Smart Energy
4 12 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.22%) Life Science
5 10 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.33%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (1.11%) Robotics
7 5 (1.11%) SCADA
7 5 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (1.11%) Virtual Team
8 4 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (0.89%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.89%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.89%) Private Cloud
8 4 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.00%) Linux
2 8 (1.78%) Android
3 3 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.22%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 48 (10.67%) Agile
3 43 (9.56%) Test Automation
4 39 (8.67%) CI/CD
5 35 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (7.56%) Computer Science
7 32 (7.11%) Mentoring
8 31 (6.89%) AI
9 29 (6.44%) Containerisation
10 26 (5.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (5.56%) Code Quality
12 22 (4.89%) DevOps
12 22 (4.89%) TDD
13 21 (4.67%) Machine Learning
14 19 (4.22%) Event-Driven
15 17 (3.78%) Storage Management
16 16 (3.56%) Decision-Making
16 16 (3.56%) Roadmaps
17 15 (3.33%) Energy Management
18 14 (3.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 87 (19.33%) C#
2 72 (16.00%) Python
3 57 (12.67%) C++
4 23 (5.11%) C
4 23 (5.11%) SQL
5 21 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.00%) Java
7 16 (3.56%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.89%) Rust
9 4 (0.89%) Ruby
10 3 (0.67%) Bash
10 3 (0.67%) Go
10 3 (0.67%) PHP
10 3 (0.67%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.44%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.22%) F#
12 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 66 (14.67%) Degree
2 45 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.22%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.89%) PhD
7 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.67%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (0.67%) HNC
7 3 (0.67%) HND
8 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.44%) NVQ Level 3
8 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.89%) QA
2 3 (0.67%) GDPR
2 3 (0.67%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.22%) ECSS
4 1 (0.22%) MISRA
4 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (5.78%) Docker
2 17 (3.78%) Firmware
3 16 (3.56%) Hyper-V
3 16 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.89%) KVM
5 5 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.67%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.56%) Terraform
3 3 (0.67%) Ansible
3 3 (0.67%) Grafana
3 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (3.56%) VMware
2 13 (2.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.67%) Allen-Bradley
3 3 (0.67%) Siemens
3 3 (0.67%) Wonderware
4 2 (0.44%) Databricks
4 2 (0.44%) Google
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle
4 2 (0.44%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.22%) NVIDIA