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

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -35 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 160 519 583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.75% 7.69% 9.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.08% 9.03% 10.07%
Number of salaries quoted 132 388 329
10th Percentile £40,250 £37,500 £40,796
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -10.16% +11.30%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 3,150 5,748 5,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.56% 85.18% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 3,995 3,143
10th Percentile £28,800 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,875 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -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 7 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 7 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
Oxfordshire -10 67 £65,000 +18.18% 77
Berkshire -40 64 £67,500 +12.50% 106
Buckinghamshire -17 29 £60,000 +14.28% 64
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 13 (8.13%) Confluence
2 5 (3.13%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.63%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Simulink
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 46 (28.75%) AWS
2 35 (21.88%) Azure
3 24 (15.00%) GCP
4 12 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.75%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (3.75%) GitHub
6 6 (3.75%) Slack
6 6 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.50%) Serverless
8 3 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.88%) IaaS
8 3 (1.88%) SaaS
9 2 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.25%) Azure API Management
9 2 (1.25%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.25%) MQTT
1 2 (1.25%) WAN
2 1 (0.63%) Broadband
2 1 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.88%) MySQL
1 19 (11.88%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.50%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.63%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.38%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.88%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.25%) Metadata
7 2 (1.25%) Power BI
7 2 (1.25%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.63%) Big Data
8 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.63%) GIS
8 1 (0.63%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 39 (24.38%) Git
2 19 (11.88%) JIRA
3 15 (9.38%) Selenium
4 14 (8.75%) GitLab
5 9 (5.63%) Visual Studio
6 8 (5.00%) Cypress.io
6 8 (5.00%) SoapUI
7 6 (3.75%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.75%) Cucumber
7 6 (3.75%) Maven
7 6 (3.75%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.25%) Moq
8 2 (1.25%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.63%) Babel
9 1 (0.63%) CMake
9 1 (0.63%) Gradle
9 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 18 (11.25%) Manufacturing
1 18 (11.25%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.63%) Retail
3 16 (10.00%) Finance
4 11 (6.88%) Electronics
5 9 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.75%) Banking
7 4 (2.50%) Advertising
7 4 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.50%) Aviation
7 4 (2.50%) Military
7 4 (2.50%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.25%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.63%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (64.38%) Software Engineer
2 40 (25.00%) Senior
3 22 (13.75%) Lead
4 21 (13.13%) Senior Software Engineer
5 15 (9.38%) Developer
6 10 (6.25%) Development Team Leader
6 10 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
6 10 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 10 (6.25%) Software Development Team Leader
6 10 (6.25%) Software Team Leader
6 10 (6.25%) Team Leader
7 9 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
7 9 (5.63%) Principal Software Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.38%) Software Developer
9 6 (3.75%) Graduate
9 6 (3.75%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 5 (3.13%) Java Engineer
10 5 (3.13%) Junior
10 5 (3.13%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (27.50%) React
2 38 (23.75%) .NET
3 24 (15.00%) CSS
3 24 (15.00%) HTML
4 14 (8.75%) Node.js
5 12 (7.50%) Spring
5 12 (7.50%) Web Services
6 11 (6.88%) Laravel
7 10 (6.25%) Jest
7 10 (6.25%) LAMP
8 9 (5.63%) AngularJS
8 9 (5.63%) Kafka
8 9 (5.63%) Redux
9 8 (5.00%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.38%) Spring Boot
11 6 (3.75%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (3.75%) Flask
11 6 (3.75%) Flutter
11 6 (3.75%) Hibernate
11 6 (3.75%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.25%) Algorithms
2 13 (8.13%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 9 (5.63%) Product Ownership
6 8 (5.00%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.75%) Molecular Biology
8 4 (2.50%) e-Learning
8 4 (2.50%) IoT
8 4 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.50%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.88%) Hackathon
9 3 (1.88%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.88%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.25%) Acoustics
10 2 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.25%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.88%) Linux
2 11 (6.88%) Unix
3 5 (3.13%) Android
3 5 (3.13%) Windows
4 3 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (32.50%) Agile
2 36 (22.50%) DevOps
3 35 (21.88%) Computer Science
4 32 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 27 (16.88%) Mathematics
7 22 (13.75%) Microservices
8 21 (13.13%) Artificial Intelligence
9 20 (12.50%) Design Patterns
10 18 (11.25%) Containerisation
10 18 (11.25%) OOP
11 17 (10.63%) MVC
11 17 (10.63%) Physics
11 17 (10.63%) SDLC
12 14 (8.75%) Clean Code
12 14 (8.75%) Collaborative Working
12 14 (8.75%) Machine Learning
12 14 (8.75%) Propensity Modelling
12 14 (8.75%) Software Testing
13 13 (8.13%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 67 (41.88%) Python
2 56 (35.00%) JavaScript
3 52 (32.50%) SQL
4 41 (25.63%) C#
5 33 (20.63%) C++
6 28 (17.50%) Java
7 27 (16.88%) TypeScript
8 19 (11.88%) C
9 16 (10.00%) PHP
10 15 (9.38%) Go
11 12 (7.50%) Bash
11 12 (7.50%) Ruby
12 10 (6.25%) Fortran
13 9 (5.63%) Rust
14 6 (3.75%) Perl
14 6 (3.75%) VB.NET
15 4 (2.50%) MATLAB
15 4 (2.50%) PL/SQL
15 4 (2.50%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (30.00%) Degree
2 22 (13.75%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 15 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (6.88%) PhD
7 10 (6.25%) DV Cleared
8 7 (4.38%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.25%) QA
2 4 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.63%) CDISC
3 1 (0.63%) GDPR
3 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (22.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (23.13%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.75%) Terraform
3 6 (3.75%) Kustomize
4 5 (3.13%) Grafana
4 5 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.25%) Ansible
5 2 (1.25%) Argo
6 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (6.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.75%) Epicor
2 6 (3.75%) Sawtooth Software
2 6 (3.75%) Solace
3 3 (1.88%) Google
4 2 (1.25%) Apple
5 1 (0.63%) Databricks
5 1 (0.63%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle
5 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.63%) VMware