Software Engineering Jobs in the Thames Valley

Software Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 22 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 595 499 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.37% 8.76% 15.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.03% 9.25% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 440 284 472
10th Percentile £37,400 £41,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +12.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,750 £92,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +11.30% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,935 5,395 6,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.47% 94.67% 93.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,951 2,996 3,893
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 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 +26 295 £60,000 -14.29% 39
Oxfordshire +3 194 £55,000 +4.76% 46
Buckinghamshire -18 106 £50,000 -13.04% 25
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 29 (4.87%) ArcGIS
1 29 (4.87%) GeoServer
2 6 (1.01%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.67%) Confluence
4 2 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.17%) nginx
5 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.34%) OrCAD
2 5 (0.84%) Simulink
3 2 (0.34%) Stateflow
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (15.80%) Azure
2 85 (14.29%) AWS
3 16 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (1.85%) SaaS
5 8 (1.34%) GitHub
6 7 (1.18%) IaaS
7 6 (1.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (1.01%) Power Platform
8 5 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (0.84%) Datadog
9 4 (0.67%) Firebolt
9 4 (0.67%) Serverless
10 3 (0.50%) GCP
11 2 (0.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.34%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.34%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.34%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.34%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.19%) Ethernet
1 19 (3.19%) Internet
2 16 (2.69%) Network Security
3 10 (1.68%) Wireless
4 7 (1.18%) VPN
5 5 (0.84%) Firewall
5 5 (0.84%) GPRS
5 5 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.50%) Broadband
6 3 (0.50%) RS-485
7 1 (0.17%) HTTP
7 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.17%) MQTT
7 1 (0.17%) RS-232
7 1 (0.17%) RTP
7 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.38%) GIS
3 29 (4.87%) QGIS
4 26 (4.37%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.02%) MySQL
8 8 (1.34%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.01%) CouchDB
10 6 (1.01%) Power BI
10 6 (1.01%) Redis
11 4 (0.67%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.17%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.17%) Crystal Reports
13 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 41 (6.89%) Git
2 24 (4.03%) Selenium
3 23 (3.87%) Cypress.io
3 23 (3.87%) SoapUI
4 11 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.85%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.18%) Gradle
6 6 (1.01%) GitLab
6 6 (1.01%) JIRA
7 5 (0.84%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.67%) Subversion
9 3 (0.50%) gulp
9 3 (0.50%) PostCSS
9 3 (0.50%) rollup.js
9 3 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.50%) Vite
10 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.34%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.34%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 58 (9.75%) Social Skills
2 36 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (5.71%) Electronics
4 27 (4.54%) Finance
5 23 (3.87%) Aerospace
6 15 (2.52%) Automotive
6 15 (2.52%) Health Technology
7 11 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 11 (1.85%) Public Sector
8 10 (1.68%) Law
8 10 (1.68%) Tech for Good
8 10 (1.68%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.34%) Legal
9 8 (1.34%) Retail
10 7 (1.18%) Games
11 4 (0.67%) Aeronautics
12 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.17%) Marketing
14 1 (0.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 413 (69.41%) Software Engineer
2 191 (32.10%) Senior
3 148 (24.87%) Senior Software Engineer
4 104 (17.48%) Embedded Engineer
5 92 (15.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 80 (13.45%) Lead
7 62 (10.42%) Developer
8 47 (7.90%) Team Leader
9 45 (7.56%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 45 (7.56%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 38 (6.39%) Software Team Leader
11 35 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
12 34 (5.71%) Development Team Leader
12 34 (5.71%) Software Development Team Leader
13 25 (4.20%) Senior Developer
14 20 (3.36%) Lead Software Engineer
15 19 (3.19%) Graduate
16 18 (3.03%) Full Stack Engineer
16 18 (3.03%) Graduate Software Engineer
16 18 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (22.02%) .NET
2 91 (15.29%) React
3 46 (7.73%) .NET Core
4 39 (6.55%) CSS
5 29 (4.87%) Leaflet
5 29 (4.87%) OpenLayers
5 29 (4.87%) PostGIS
6 27 (4.54%) ASP.NET
7 23 (3.87%) Jest
8 19 (3.19%) WPF
9 17 (2.86%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.69%) Spring
11 15 (2.52%) Django
12 14 (2.35%) HTML
13 13 (2.18%) Vue
14 10 (1.68%) Blazor
14 10 (1.68%) Kafka
15 7 (1.18%) Spring Boot
16 6 (1.01%) Flask
16 6 (1.01%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.55%) Algorithms
2 25 (4.20%) IoT
3 23 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (3.19%) Embedded Systems
5 15 (2.52%) FPGA
6 13 (2.18%) Life Science
7 11 (1.85%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.68%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
9 8 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (1.34%) PCIe
10 7 (1.18%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.01%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.01%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.01%) Hackathon
11 6 (1.01%) PropTech
12 5 (0.84%) Device Driver
12 5 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.84%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 95 (15.97%) Linux
2 47 (7.90%) Windows
3 20 (3.36%) Embedded Linux
4 17 (2.86%) Unix
5 5 (0.84%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (23.36%) Agile
2 105 (17.65%) Computer Science
3 70 (11.76%) DevOps
4 66 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (10.42%) Full Stack Development
6 56 (9.41%) Artificial Intelligence
7 54 (9.08%) Mathematics
8 52 (8.74%) Physics
9 49 (8.24%) Mentoring
10 39 (6.55%) Actionable Insight
11 35 (5.88%) Open Source
11 35 (5.88%) Software Testing
12 34 (5.71%) Propensity Modelling
13 33 (5.55%) Machine Learning
14 32 (5.38%) SDLC
14 32 (5.38%) Web Development
15 27 (4.54%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (4.37%) Coaching
16 26 (4.37%) Microservices
17 23 (3.87%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 161 (27.06%) Python
2 126 (21.18%) C#
3 99 (16.64%) C++
4 92 (15.46%) JavaScript
5 91 (15.29%) C
6 86 (14.45%) SQL
7 73 (12.27%) Java
8 59 (9.92%) TypeScript
9 27 (4.54%) Bash
10 18 (3.03%) Embedded C
11 17 (2.86%) Fortran
12 15 (2.52%) PowerShell
13 14 (2.35%) MATLAB
13 14 (2.35%) T-SQL
14 11 (1.85%) Ruby
15 10 (1.68%) VB.NET
15 10 (1.68%) XAML
16 8 (1.34%) Go
17 7 (1.18%) Embedded C++
18 5 (0.84%) PHP
Qualifications
1 191 (32.10%) Degree
2 78 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 46 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 40 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (6.55%) PhD
6 37 (6.22%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.18%) CISSP
8 9 (1.51%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.34%) CISM
9 8 (1.34%) GIAC
9 8 (1.34%) GPEN
10 5 (0.84%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.52%) QA
2 13 (2.18%) NIST
3 8 (1.34%) GDPR
3 8 (1.34%) GRC
3 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.01%) NIST 800
6 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.34%) SLA
7 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 50 (8.40%) Docker
2 12 (2.02%) Firmware
3 8 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (7.23%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.68%) Ansible
3 7 (1.18%) Terraform
4 6 (1.01%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (1.01%) Nessus
5 5 (0.84%) Suricata
6 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (9.08%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.87%) ESRI
3 8 (1.34%) EMC
4 6 (1.01%) Qualys
5 5 (0.84%) Cisco
5 5 (0.84%) Juniper
5 5 (0.84%) Palo Alto
5 5 (0.84%) Splunk
5 5 (0.84%) YouTube
6 4 (0.67%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.67%) Renesas
7 3 (0.50%) Google
8 2 (0.34%) IFS
8 2 (0.34%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.34%) SAP
8 2 (0.34%) VMware
9 1 (0.17%) Databricks
9 1 (0.17%) F5
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle
9 1 (0.17%) RedGate