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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 12 33
Rank change year-on-year -25 +21 -25
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 11 40 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 3.99% 8.79% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 12.01% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11 37 9
10th Percentile £61,250 - £34,500
25th Percentile £70,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £83,125 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £66,750 £73,500
Hampshire median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +22.73% -4.35% -4.17%

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 256 333 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 92.75% 73.19% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 223 222 202
10th Percentile £31,000 £40,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -5.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,900 £87,500 £84,550
Hampshire median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering 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 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Basingstoke

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 3 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
1 3 (27.27%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (9.09%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) MinIO
3 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Robot Framework
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
1 3 (27.27%) Snyk
2 2 (18.18%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Billing
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 4 (36.36%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Applications Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Software Manager
5 1 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Head of Development
5 1 (9.09%) Head of Software Development
5 1 (9.09%) Perl Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Low-Code
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Presales
4 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) Conversational UI
4 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) User Stories
5 3 (27.27%) Application Security
5 3 (27.27%) Business Process Analysis
5 3 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
5 3 (27.27%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (27.27%) Secrets Management
5 3 (27.27%) Storage Management
5 3 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) C++
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
2 1 (9.09%) Perl
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Swift
2 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (27.27%) Black Duck
1 3 (27.27%) UiPath
1 3 (27.27%) VMware