Developer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Developer salary in the Thames Valley is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 897 958 1,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.33% 15.59% 19.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.08% 17.33% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 777 729 929
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,373 5,528 6,493
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.94% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,571 3,223 4,190
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £28,725
25th Percentile £36,500 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the Thames Valley

Developer
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 Developer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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 -2 452 £65,000 +8.33% 51
Buckinghamshire -2 239 £55,000 - 26
Oxfordshire +5 206 £57,500 -4.17% 26
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 387 (43.14%) JavaScript
2 367 (40.91%) C#
3 309 (34.45%) .NET
4 295 (32.89%) Agile
5 265 (29.54%) Azure
6 246 (27.42%) React
7 198 (22.07%) SQL
8 186 (20.74%) Docker
9 182 (20.29%) TypeScript
10 179 (19.96%) HTML
11 172 (19.18%) CSS
12 170 (18.95%) DevOps
13 165 (18.39%) Git
14 163 (18.17%) Microsoft
15 162 (18.06%) Degree
16 161 (17.95%) Full Stack Development
17 158 (17.61%) Kubernetes
18 155 (17.28%) SQL Server
19 151 (16.83%) AWS
20 145 (16.16%) Computer Science
21 132 (14.72%) Artificial Intelligence
22 121 (13.49%) Propensity Modelling
22 121 (13.49%) AngularJS
23 118 (13.15%) ASP.NET
23 118 (13.15%) Java
24 115 (12.82%) Microservices
25 110 (12.26%) TDD
26 106 (11.82%) .NET Core
27 104 (11.59%) Security Cleared
28 102 (11.37%) MVC

Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 44 (4.91%) CMS
2 29 (3.23%) OpenStack
3 24 (2.68%) Headless CMS
3 24 (2.68%) Kentico
4 23 (2.56%) IIS
5 21 (2.34%) SharePoint
6 19 (2.12%) Sitecore CMS
6 19 (2.12%) Umbraco
7 12 (1.34%) JBoss
8 11 (1.23%) IBM Domino
8 11 (1.23%) nginx
8 11 (1.23%) Red Hat Fuse
9 10 (1.11%) Apache
9 10 (1.11%) WordPress
10 4 (0.45%) Confluence
11 3 (0.33%) SAS
12 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.22%) Joomla!
13 1 (0.11%) Drupal
13 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (2.01%) Dynamics AX
3 9 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.22%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 265 (29.54%) Azure
2 151 (16.83%) AWS
3 83 (9.25%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (6.35%) Dynamics 365
4 57 (6.35%) Power Platform
5 49 (5.46%) Serverless
6 41 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (3.34%) SaaS
8 19 (2.12%) Kontent
9 18 (2.01%) GitHub
10 16 (1.78%) Power Automate
11 13 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (1.34%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (0.78%) WhatsApp
15 6 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (0.56%) Amazon S3
16 5 (0.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.11%) DNS
1 10 (1.11%) Firewall
1 10 (1.11%) Internet
1 10 (1.11%) SSL
2 4 (0.45%) MQTT
2 4 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.45%) VPN
3 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (17.28%) SQL Server
2 99 (11.04%) NoSQL
3 71 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (7.80%) Relational Database
5 50 (5.57%) MySQL
6 40 (4.46%) Power BI
7 30 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (2.23%) Data Lake
8 20 (2.23%) MongoDB
9 19 (2.12%) Power Query
10 15 (1.67%) OLTP
10 15 (1.67%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.11%) Redis
13 9 (1.00%) Oracle Database 11g
14 7 (0.78%) EDRMS
15 6 (0.67%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 165 (18.39%) Git
2 52 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 40 (4.46%) Cypress.io
4 37 (4.12%) Selenium
5 35 (3.90%) Visual Studio
6 25 (2.79%) JIRA
7 24 (2.68%) NUnit
8 17 (1.90%) JUnit
9 11 (1.23%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.11%) MorphX
10 10 (1.11%) Vite
11 9 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (0.78%) gulp
12 7 (0.78%) PostCSS
12 7 (0.78%) rollup.js
13 6 (0.67%) GitLab
13 6 (0.67%) JMeter
13 6 (0.67%) Mockito
14 5 (0.56%) Bugzilla
14 5 (0.56%) MSTest
General
1 90 (10.03%) Social Skills
2 51 (5.69%) Public Sector
3 36 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (4.01%) Marketing
4 34 (3.79%) Finance
5 29 (3.23%) Law
6 26 (2.90%) Retail
6 26 (2.90%) Tech for Good
7 15 (1.67%) Back Office
8 11 (1.23%) Games
9 10 (1.11%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.00%) Banking
11 8 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.89%) Police
12 7 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.67%) Legal
13 6 (0.67%) Local Government
13 6 (0.67%) Multimedia
14 5 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (34.45%) .NET
2 246 (27.42%) React
3 179 (19.96%) HTML
4 172 (19.18%) CSS
5 121 (13.49%) AngularJS
6 118 (13.15%) ASP.NET
7 106 (11.82%) .NET Core
8 87 (9.70%) .NET Framework
9 85 (9.48%) Node.js
10 67 (7.47%) Web Services
11 65 (7.25%) ASP.NET MVC
12 61 (6.80%) HTML5
13 60 (6.69%) RESTful
14 59 (6.58%) REST
15 52 (5.80%) Spring
15 52 (5.80%) Vue
16 51 (5.69%) CSS3
16 51 (5.69%) Spring Boot
17 49 (5.46%) XML
18 44 (4.91%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.45%) Mobile App
4 20 (2.23%) Algorithms
5 19 (2.12%) Mainframe
6 15 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.34%) e-Learning
8 11 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.23%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.11%) IoT
10 8 (0.89%) BBC
10 8 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (0.89%) Social Media
11 7 (0.78%) Animation
11 7 (0.78%) Client/Server
11 7 (0.78%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.78%) NHS
12 6 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.56%) Linux
2 17 (1.90%) Windows
3 13 (1.45%) Android
3 13 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (32.89%) Agile
2 170 (18.95%) DevOps
3 161 (17.95%) Full Stack Development
4 145 (16.16%) Computer Science
5 132 (14.72%) Artificial Intelligence
6 121 (13.49%) Propensity Modelling
7 115 (12.82%) Microservices
8 110 (12.26%) TDD
9 102 (11.37%) MVC
10 95 (10.59%) Scrum
11 90 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
12 83 (9.25%) Front End Development
13 70 (7.80%) Software Engineering
14 69 (7.69%) BDD
15 68 (7.58%) Kanban
16 67 (7.47%) Web Development
17 66 (7.36%) CI/CD
18 58 (6.47%) CRM
19 53 (5.91%) Unit Testing
20 46 (5.13%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 387 (43.14%) JavaScript
2 367 (40.91%) C#
3 198 (22.07%) SQL
4 182 (20.29%) TypeScript
5 118 (13.15%) Java
6 97 (10.81%) Python
7 82 (9.14%) PHP
8 36 (4.01%) T-SQL
9 31 (3.46%) PL/SQL
10 29 (3.23%) C++
11 24 (2.68%) C
12 19 (2.12%) COBOL
13 16 (1.78%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.23%) Go
14 11 (1.23%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.78%) Ruby
15 7 (0.78%) Scala
15 7 (0.78%) XAML
16 6 (0.67%) Fortran
17 5 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 162 (18.06%) Degree
2 104 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 83 (9.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 51 (5.69%) SC Cleared
5 39 (4.35%) CTC Cleared
6 16 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.45%) PhD
8 12 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.11%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.79%) WCAG
2 27 (3.01%) QA
3 4 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 186 (20.74%) Docker
2 21 (2.34%) Hyper-V
3 8 (0.89%) Firmware
4 4 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 158 (17.61%) Kubernetes
2 39 (4.35%) Ansible
3 24 (2.68%) Terraform
4 5 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
4 5 (0.56%) Kibana
5 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 163 (18.17%) Microsoft
2 46 (5.13%) Oracle
3 29 (3.23%) WSO2
4 21 (2.34%) Xamarin
5 19 (2.12%) Optimizely
5 19 (2.12%) Sitecore
5 19 (2.12%) Unisys
6 12 (1.34%) Google
7 10 (1.11%) HP
7 10 (1.11%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.00%) Facebook
8 9 (1.00%) IBM
8 9 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.89%) Apple
9 8 (0.89%) Sony
9 8 (0.89%) Yahoo!
10 7 (0.78%) Adobe
11 4 (0.45%) BMC
11 4 (0.45%) Remedy
11 4 (0.45%) Telerik