Software Engineering Jobs in Berkshire

Software Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 34 21
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 +17
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 258 244 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.40% 7.64% 9.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.72% 8.01% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 169 175 200
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,025 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,655 3,047 3,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.45% 95.43% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,840 1,654 1,982
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,100 £92,500 £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 Berkshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Berkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Berkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Berkshire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Reading +12 147 £60,000 -14.29% 31
Bracknell +6 53 £80,000 -11.11% 5
Newbury +2 6 £55,000 -21.43% 5
Hungerford - 6 £50,000 -
Windsor -3 5 - - 2
Crowthorne - 5 £35,000 - 1
Thatcham - 4 £50,000 - 2
Maidenhead +9 3 £47,500 -26.92%
Slough +11 1 £80,000 +14.29% 2
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (11.24%) ArcGIS
1 29 (11.24%) GeoServer
2 4 (1.55%) Confluence
3 2 (0.78%) Apache
3 2 (0.78%) JBoss
3 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (3.10%) OrCAD
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 74 (28.68%) Azure
2 60 (23.26%) AWS
3 15 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.71%) Serverless
5 6 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (1.94%) Datadog
7 4 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.55%) Firebolt
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.78%) AWS IoT
8 2 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.78%) GCP
8 2 (0.78%) GitHub
8 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.78%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.78%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.78%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.39%) IaaS
9 1 (0.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.04%) Ethernet
2 12 (4.65%) Network Security
3 10 (3.88%) Wireless
4 8 (3.10%) Internet
5 5 (1.94%) GPRS
6 4 (1.55%) Firewall
6 4 (1.55%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.55%) VPN
7 3 (1.16%) RS-485
8 1 (0.39%) MQTT
8 1 (0.39%) RS-232
8 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.79%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.02%) GIS
3 29 (11.24%) QGIS
4 24 (9.30%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.10%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.33%) Redis
7 5 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.55%) MySQL
9 3 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.16%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.16%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.78%) Power BI
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.39%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 38 (14.73%) Git
2 25 (9.69%) Selenium
3 24 (9.30%) Cypress.io
3 24 (9.30%) SoapUI
4 8 (3.10%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.94%) GitLab
5 5 (1.94%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.55%) JIRA
6 4 (1.55%) Subversion
7 3 (1.16%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.16%) JDeveloper
8 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.78%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.39%) Gradle
9 1 (0.39%) JUnit
9 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.39%) Sourcetree
General
1 24 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (7.75%) Finance
2 20 (7.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (3.88%) Electronics
3 10 (3.88%) Health Technology
3 10 (3.88%) Tech for Good
3 10 (3.88%) Telecoms
4 8 (3.10%) Retail
5 7 (2.71%) Aerospace
5 7 (2.71%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.33%) Legal
7 3 (1.16%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 165 (63.95%) Software Engineer
2 90 (34.88%) Senior
3 68 (26.36%) Senior Software Engineer
4 43 (16.67%) Lead
5 31 (12.02%) Embedded Engineer
6 30 (11.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 28 (10.85%) Development Team Leader
7 28 (10.85%) Software Development Team Leader
7 28 (10.85%) Software Team Leader
7 28 (10.85%) Team Leader
8 26 (10.08%) Developer
9 23 (8.91%) C++ Software Engineer
10 20 (7.75%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 20 (7.75%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 12 (4.65%) Research Engineer
11 12 (4.65%) Research Software Engineer
12 11 (4.26%) Senior Developer
13 10 (3.88%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (3.88%) Principal Software Engineer
13 10 (3.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (32.95%) .NET
2 68 (26.36%) React
3 34 (13.18%) .NET Core
4 29 (11.24%) Leaflet
4 29 (11.24%) OpenLayers
4 29 (11.24%) PostGIS
5 27 (10.47%) CSS
6 23 (8.91%) Jest
7 19 (7.36%) ASP.NET
8 14 (5.43%) Django
9 10 (3.88%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.88%) Blazor
10 8 (3.10%) Spring
10 8 (3.10%) Vue
10 8 (3.10%) Web Services
11 6 (2.33%) Qt
12 5 (1.94%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.94%) Flask
12 5 (1.94%) SQLAlchemy
12 5 (1.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.04%) IoT
3 11 (4.26%) Algorithms
3 11 (4.26%) FPGA
4 8 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.10%) PCIe
5 5 (1.94%) Hackathon
6 4 (1.55%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.16%) Arduino
7 3 (1.16%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.16%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (1.16%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.78%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (18.22%) Linux
2 30 (11.63%) Windows
3 20 (7.75%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (2.71%) Unix
5 4 (1.55%) Kali Linux
5 4 (1.55%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (33.72%) Agile
2 59 (22.87%) DevOps
3 50 (19.38%) Actionable Insight
4 48 (18.60%) Computer Science
5 30 (11.63%) Propensity Modelling
6 29 (11.24%) Web Development
7 28 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (8.53%) Artificial Intelligence
9 21 (8.14%) Machine Learning
9 21 (8.14%) Mentoring
10 17 (6.59%) Containerisation
11 16 (6.20%) Multithreading
11 16 (6.20%) Physics
12 15 (5.81%) Application Security
12 15 (5.81%) CI/CD
12 15 (5.81%) Microservices
13 14 (5.43%) Clean Code
13 14 (5.43%) Unit Testing
14 13 (5.04%) Mathematics
14 13 (5.04%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 70 (27.13%) C#
1 70 (27.13%) Python
2 64 (24.81%) JavaScript
3 57 (22.09%) SQL
4 37 (14.34%) TypeScript
5 36 (13.95%) C++
6 34 (13.18%) C
7 21 (8.14%) Java
8 14 (5.43%) Bash
9 12 (4.65%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.71%) Fortran
10 7 (2.71%) Ruby
11 6 (2.33%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.94%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.94%) Go
13 4 (1.55%) Perl
13 4 (1.55%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.39%) Haskell
14 1 (0.39%) PHP
14 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (33.72%) Degree
2 54 (20.93%) Security Cleared
3 43 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.65%) CISSP
6 10 (3.88%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.49%) PhD
8 8 (3.10%) CISM
8 8 (3.10%) GIAC
8 8 (3.10%) GPEN
9 7 (2.71%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.55%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.65%) QA
2 10 (3.88%) NIST
3 8 (3.10%) GRC
4 6 (2.33%) GDPR
4 6 (2.33%) NIST 800
5 4 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (1.55%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) JTAG
System Software
1 38 (14.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (12.79%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.10%) Ansible
2 8 (3.10%) Terraform
3 6 (2.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 6 (2.33%) Nessus
4 4 (1.55%) Suricata
5 1 (0.39%) Grafana
5 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (11.24%) ESRI
1 29 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.10%) EMC
3 6 (2.33%) Qualys
4 4 (1.55%) Cisco
4 4 (1.55%) Juniper
4 4 (1.55%) Oracle
4 4 (1.55%) Palo Alto
4 4 (1.55%) Splunk
5 2 (0.78%) IFS
5 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.39%) Databricks
6 1 (0.39%) Google
6 1 (0.39%) SAP