Software Manager Jobs in the Thames Valley

Software Manager
South East > Thames Valley

The median Software Manager salary in the Thames Valley is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 230 229
Rank change year-on-year +53 -1 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 3 14 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.088% 0.21% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.22% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 20
10th Percentile £78,250 - £51,250
25th Percentile £79,375 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £67,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £86,875 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £112,500 -
South East median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,845 6,336 5,333
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.75% 94.68% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,251 4,430 3,144
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,183 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Software Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in the Thames Valley

Software Manager
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Software Manager in the Thames Valley

Software Manager
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 Manager within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 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 +44 2 £85,000 -19.05% 16
Buckinghamshire +32 1 £82,500 -17.50%
Software Manager
South East

Software Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Software Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Software Manager in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Scorecard
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) AWS

Software Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Propensity Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Scorecard
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft