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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 46 37
Rank change year-on-year +18 -9 -17
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 18 11 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 5.71% 1.77% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.63% 2.72% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 12
10th Percentile £63,150 £44,865 £41,619
25th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £44,942
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £73,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% +40.48% -30.00%
75th Percentile - £75,000 £61,875
90th Percentile £98,000 £82,000 £94,125
Hampshire median annual salary £60,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.20% +8.70% -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 236 405 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 74.92% 65.01% 90.55%
Number of salaries quoted 205 296 193
10th Percentile £29,750 £43,125 £31,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £49,694
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +20.74% -9.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £77,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £56,921 £52,000
% change year-on-year -12.16% +9.46% -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 11 January 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) MinIO
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) Pinecone
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Robot Framework
2 1 (5.56%) Selenium
2 1 (5.56%) Snyk
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Billing
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Architect
3 5 (27.78%) Software Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Software Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Applications Architect
6 1 (5.56%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Head of Development
6 1 (5.56%) Head of Software Development
6 1 (5.56%) Perl Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
1 1 (5.56%) Flask
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Agile
1 6 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Presales
3 4 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (11.11%) Microservices
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.11%) User Stories
6 1 (5.56%) ArchiMate
6 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
6 1 (5.56%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.11%) Python
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) C++
2 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
2 1 (5.56%) Perl
2 1 (5.56%) Swift
2 1 (5.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (5.56%) Black Duck
1 1 (5.56%) UiPath
1 1 (5.56%) VMware