Software Engineering Job Trends in Basingstoke

Software Engineering
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 37 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -31
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 20 20 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 5.52% 3.31% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.99% 4.91% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 15 19 7
10th Percentile £65,050 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £79,375 £44,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +9.09% -24.14%
75th Percentile - £74,375 £59,375
90th Percentile £96,000 £76,000 £75,750
Hampshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basingstoke.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 286 407 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 79.01% 67.27% 92.49%
Number of salaries quoted 251 302 171
10th Percentile £30,000 £43,660 £28,500
25th Percentile £49,875 £50,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £64,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +34.74% -14.41%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Basingstoke

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.00%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (5.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) MinIO
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) Snyk
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Billing
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Software Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Software Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Architect
6 1 (5.00%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Head of Development
6 1 (5.00%) Head of Software Development
6 1 (5.00%) Perl Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (5.00%) Flask
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile
1 6 (30.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Presales
3 4 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (15.00%) AI
4 3 (15.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.00%) Performance Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.00%) Conversational UI
5 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (10.00%) Microservices
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.00%) User Stories
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (10.00%) Python
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) C++
2 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (5.00%) Perl
2 1 (5.00%) Swift
2 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (5.00%) Black Duck
1 1 (5.00%) UiPath
1 1 (5.00%) VMware