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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 45 27
Rank change year-on-year +15 -18 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 13 10 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 3.89% 2.00% 6.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.53% 3.17% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 32
10th Percentile £78,750 £68,125 £40,000
25th Percentile - £71,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £73,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% +47.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £75,000 £56,375
90th Percentile - £82,000 £63,500
Hampshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%

All Process & 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 235 315 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 70.36% 63.00% 81.03%
Number of salaries quoted 205 237 336
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.94%

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 25 March 2026.

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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.69%) Pinecone
1 1 (7.69%) Weaviate
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Software Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
1 1 (7.69%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (7.69%) Agile
1 1 (7.69%) AI
1 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
1 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
1 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
1 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
1 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (7.69%) DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) LLM
1 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
1 1 (7.69%) Microservices
1 1 (7.69%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (7.69%) Presales
1 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (7.69%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (7.69%) Software Delivery
1 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (7.69%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes