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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 549 540 1,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.00% 9.22% 14.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.54% 9.73% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 407 298 466
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £34,995
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +15.18% -2.61%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,872 £92,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% +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 5,757 5,550 6,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.93% 94.81% 93.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,892 3,034 3,849
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,500
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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +20 271 £60,000 -14.29% 51
Oxfordshire 0 178 £55,000 +4.76% 50
Buckinghamshire -24 100 £50,000 -13.04% 19
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 (5.28%) ArcGIS
1 29 (5.28%) GeoServer
2 6 (1.09%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.73%) Confluence
4 2 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) JBoss
5 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.18%) nginx
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.46%) OrCAD
2 5 (0.91%) Simulink
3 2 (0.36%) Stateflow
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (16.94%) Azure
2 81 (14.75%) AWS
3 16 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (1.82%) SaaS
5 8 (1.46%) GitHub
6 7 (1.28%) IaaS
7 6 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (1.09%) Power Platform
8 5 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (0.91%) Datadog
8 5 (0.91%) Serverless
9 4 (0.73%) Firebolt
10 3 (0.55%) GCP
11 2 (0.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.36%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.36%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.36%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.46%) Ethernet
2 18 (3.28%) Internet
3 13 (2.37%) Network Security
4 10 (1.82%) Wireless
5 7 (1.28%) VPN
6 5 (0.91%) Firewall
6 5 (0.91%) GPRS
6 5 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (0.91%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.55%) RS-485
8 2 (0.36%) Broadband
8 2 (0.36%) VoIP
9 1 (0.18%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.18%) MQTT
9 1 (0.18%) RS-232
9 1 (0.18%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.65%) GIS
3 29 (5.28%) QGIS
4 25 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.28%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.19%) MySQL
8 10 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.09%) CouchDB
9 6 (1.09%) Power BI
9 6 (1.09%) Redis
10 4 (0.73%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.36%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
13 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 42 (7.65%) Git
2 23 (4.19%) Selenium
3 22 (4.01%) Cypress.io
3 22 (4.01%) SoapUI
4 11 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.00%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.28%) Gradle
6 6 (1.09%) JIRA
7 5 (0.91%) Eclipse
7 5 (0.91%) GitLab
8 4 (0.73%) Subversion
9 3 (0.55%) gulp
9 3 (0.55%) PostCSS
9 3 (0.55%) rollup.js
9 3 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.55%) Vite
10 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.36%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (10.20%) Social Skills
2 34 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (5.65%) Electronics
4 26 (4.74%) Finance
5 22 (4.01%) Aerospace
6 15 (2.73%) Automotive
6 15 (2.73%) Health Technology
7 12 (2.19%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.64%) Law
10 9 (1.64%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.46%) Legal
12 7 (1.28%) Games
12 7 (1.28%) Retail
13 4 (0.73%) Aeronautics
14 2 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.18%) Marketing
15 1 (0.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 381 (69.40%) Software Engineer
2 176 (32.06%) Senior
3 135 (24.59%) Senior Software Engineer
4 97 (17.67%) Embedded Engineer
5 85 (15.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 71 (12.93%) Lead
7 58 (10.56%) Developer
8 43 (7.83%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 43 (7.83%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 39 (7.10%) Team Leader
10 35 (6.38%) C++ Software Engineer
11 33 (6.01%) Software Team Leader
12 31 (5.65%) Development Team Leader
12 31 (5.65%) Software Development Team Leader
13 22 (4.01%) Senior Developer
14 20 (3.64%) Lead Software Engineer
15 18 (3.28%) Full Stack Engineer
15 18 (3.28%) Graduate
15 18 (3.28%) Software Developer
16 17 (3.10%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (23.50%) .NET
2 91 (16.58%) React
3 46 (8.38%) .NET Core
4 39 (7.10%) CSS
5 29 (5.28%) Leaflet
5 29 (5.28%) OpenLayers
5 29 (5.28%) PostGIS
6 27 (4.92%) ASP.NET
7 22 (4.01%) Jest
8 18 (3.28%) AngularJS
9 17 (3.10%) Spring
10 16 (2.91%) WPF
11 15 (2.73%) Django
12 14 (2.55%) HTML
13 12 (2.19%) Vue
14 10 (1.82%) Blazor
14 10 (1.82%) Kafka
15 8 (1.46%) Spring Boot
16 7 (1.28%) Hibernate
16 7 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.10%) Algorithms
2 24 (4.37%) IoT
3 22 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (3.46%) Embedded Systems
5 15 (2.73%) FPGA
6 12 (2.19%) Life Science
7 11 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
9 9 (1.64%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.46%) PCIe
11 7 (1.28%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.09%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.09%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.09%) Hackathon
12 6 (1.09%) PropTech
13 5 (0.91%) Device Driver
13 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.91%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 86 (15.66%) Linux
2 46 (8.38%) Windows
3 20 (3.64%) Embedded Linux
4 12 (2.19%) Unix
5 5 (0.91%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.73%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (24.95%) Agile
2 96 (17.49%) Computer Science
3 71 (12.93%) DevOps
4 66 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (10.20%) Full Stack Development
6 49 (8.93%) Artificial Intelligence
6 49 (8.93%) Mentoring
7 48 (8.74%) Mathematics
8 45 (8.20%) Physics
9 42 (7.65%) Actionable Insight
10 32 (5.83%) Open Source
10 32 (5.83%) Web Development
11 31 (5.65%) Propensity Modelling
12 30 (5.46%) Software Testing
13 28 (5.10%) Machine Learning
14 27 (4.92%) Microservices
14 27 (4.92%) SDLC
15 26 (4.74%) Coaching
16 25 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
17 22 (4.01%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 155 (28.23%) Python
2 119 (21.68%) C#
3 90 (16.39%) JavaScript
4 87 (15.85%) C++
5 84 (15.30%) SQL
6 83 (15.12%) C
7 72 (13.11%) Java
8 56 (10.20%) TypeScript
9 24 (4.37%) Bash
10 17 (3.10%) Embedded C
11 15 (2.73%) PowerShell
12 14 (2.55%) MATLAB
12 14 (2.55%) T-SQL
13 13 (2.37%) Ruby
14 12 (2.19%) Fortran
15 10 (1.82%) VB.NET
16 9 (1.64%) Go
17 8 (1.46%) XAML
18 5 (0.91%) PHP
19 4 (0.73%) VB
Qualifications
1 179 (32.60%) Degree
2 72 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 46 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 41 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (6.19%) PhD
6 32 (5.83%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.37%) CISSP
8 9 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.46%) CISM
9 8 (1.46%) GIAC
9 8 (1.46%) GPEN
10 5 (0.91%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.91%) QA
2 13 (2.37%) NIST
3 8 (1.46%) GDPR
3 8 (1.46%) GRC
3 8 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.28%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.09%) NIST 800
6 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.36%) SLA
7 2 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.18%) JTAG
System Software
1 48 (8.74%) Docker
2 12 (2.19%) Firmware
3 8 (1.46%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.82%) Ansible
3 7 (1.28%) Terraform
4 6 (1.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (1.09%) Nessus
5 5 (0.91%) Suricata
6 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 48 (8.74%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.28%) ESRI
3 8 (1.46%) EMC
4 6 (1.09%) Qualys
5 5 (0.91%) Cisco
5 5 (0.91%) Juniper
5 5 (0.91%) Palo Alto
5 5 (0.91%) Splunk
5 5 (0.91%) YouTube
6 4 (0.73%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.73%) Renesas
7 3 (0.55%) Google
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle
8 2 (0.36%) IFS
8 2 (0.36%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.36%) SAP
8 2 (0.36%) VMware
9 1 (0.18%) Databricks
9 1 (0.18%) F5
9 1 (0.18%) RedGate