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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 28 37
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 -29
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 19 26 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 5.43% 4.73% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.48% 6.90% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15 24 6
10th Percentile £64,650 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £74,750 £43,913 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.00% -9.09% -25.42%
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £60,313
90th Percentile £96,000 £75,000 £79,375
Hampshire median annual salary £65,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.07% +0.87% -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 293 377 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 83.71% 68.55% 91.92%
Number of salaries quoted 258 272 173
10th Percentile £30,000 £44,000 £27,100
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £67,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.07% +42.11% -17.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,813 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 17 November 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 3 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
1 3 (15.79%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (5.26%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.79%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) MinIO
3 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Robot Framework
1 3 (15.79%) Selenium
1 3 (15.79%) Snyk
2 2 (10.53%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Billing
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Software Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Software Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Applications Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Engineering Manager
4 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Software Manager
6 1 (5.26%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Head of Development
6 1 (5.26%) Head of Software Development
6 1 (5.26%) Perl Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (15.79%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (15.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Agile
1 8 (42.11%) DevOps
2 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) Presales
4 4 (21.05%) Strategic Thinking
4 4 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
4 4 (21.05%) User Stories
5 3 (15.79%) AI
5 3 (15.79%) ArchiMate
5 3 (15.79%) Data Integration
5 3 (15.79%) Data Management
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Robotic Process Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Security Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Software Delivery
5 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (15.79%) Use Case
5 3 (15.79%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) C#
2 1 (5.26%) C++
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
2 1 (5.26%) Perl
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Swift
2 1 (5.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Ansible
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (15.79%) Black Duck
1 3 (15.79%) UiPath
1 3 (15.79%) VMware