VxWorks Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Wind River VxWorks
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring VxWorks skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 - 177
Rank change year-on-year - - +92
Permanent jobs citing VxWorks 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.058% - 0.060%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.58% - 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £49,000 - -
25th Percentile £49,375 - £73,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £76,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.38%
75th Percentile £71,875 - £79,000
90th Percentile £73,000 - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £76,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -1.32% +71.38%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

VxWorks falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 344 574 719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.89% 13.31% 21.70%
Number of salaries quoted 301 327 546
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,813 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £46,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £81,250 £77,500
South East median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -

VxWorks
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VxWorks relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

VxWorks job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

VxWorks
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VxWorks.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VxWorks

VxWorks
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 VxWorks within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 November 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 - 2 £60,000 - 8
VxWorks
South East

VxWorks
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SpaceWire
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Validation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Verification Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Validation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ECSS