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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 46 39
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 -21
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 17 12 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 5.00% 2.03% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.83% 3.29% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12 11 14
10th Percentile £71,550 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £87,188 £70,625 £42,173
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £72,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% +38.10% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £75,000 £60,313
90th Percentile £99,000 £80,000 £87,375
Hampshire median annual salary £61,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% -

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 249 365 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 73.24% 61.66% 86.85%
Number of salaries quoted 218 255 274
10th Percentile £30,000 £44,190 £30,263
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +27.55% -10.91%
75th Percentile £75,188 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £72,850
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,961 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.65% +11.92% -9.09%

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 9 February 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) Pinecone
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.88%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Billing
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Software Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Software Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Software Manager
5 1 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Head of Development
5 1 (5.88%) Head of Software Development
5 1 (5.88%) Perl Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
1 1 (5.88%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
1 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Agile
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
2 4 (23.53%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
3 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 3 (17.65%) Performance Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Presales
3 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
4 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.88%) Coaching
5 1 (5.88%) High Availability
5 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.88%) Microservices
5 1 (5.88%) Mobile Development
5 1 (5.88%) Secure Coding
5 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.88%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) C++
2 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
2 1 (5.88%) Perl
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Swift
2 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes