Software Engineering Jobs in Berkshire

Software Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 21 38
Rank change year-on-year -42 +17 -16
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 62 256 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.84% 8.36% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 9.70% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 60 170 170
10th Percentile £39,500 £43,750 £47,453
25th Percentile £50,848 £47,500 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £94,063 £77,188 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,499 2,639 2,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.76% 86.13% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 541 1,805 1,631
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £93,750
South East median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Berkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Berkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Berkshire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -17 29 £60,000 - 73
Bracknell +4 14 £90,000 +12.50% 17
Maidenhead -21 3 £70,000 +47.37% 25
Windsor -27 2 - - 5
Slough -28 2 £60,000 -25.00% 8
Wokingham - 1 £65,000 - 8
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (1.61%) CMS
1 1 (1.61%) Confluence
1 1 (1.61%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.61%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.35%) Azure
2 11 (17.74%) AWS
3 7 (11.29%) GCP
4 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.06%) GitHub
5 3 (4.84%) Serverless
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.23%) Azure API Management
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.23%) Firebase
6 2 (3.23%) IaaS
6 2 (3.23%) SaaS
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.61%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) NoSQL
2 7 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.23%) Metadata
4 2 (3.23%) MySQL
4 2 (3.23%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Git
2 8 (12.90%) Selenium
3 7 (11.29%) Cypress.io
3 7 (11.29%) SoapUI
4 5 (8.06%) Visual Studio
5 3 (4.84%) JIRA
6 1 (1.61%) GitLab
6 1 (1.61%) Gradle
6 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (12.90%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.84%) Electronics
3 3 (4.84%) Finance
4 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Retail
5 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (56.45%) Software Engineer
2 17 (27.42%) Senior
3 14 (22.58%) Lead
4 10 (16.13%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Development Team Leader
5 9 (14.52%) Software Development Team Leader
5 9 (14.52%) Software Team Leader
5 9 (14.52%) Team Leader
6 7 (11.29%) Developer
7 6 (9.68%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Principal Software Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Senior Developer
8 5 (8.06%) Graduate
8 5 (8.06%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Junior
8 5 (8.06%) Junior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (4.84%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (27.42%) React
2 15 (24.19%) .NET
3 10 (16.13%) Node.js
4 9 (14.52%) Jest
5 5 (8.06%) Flutter
6 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.45%) CSS
6 4 (6.45%) HTML
6 4 (6.45%) Loki
7 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.23%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (3.23%) CSS3
8 2 (3.23%) HTML5
8 2 (3.23%) Kafka
8 2 (3.23%) React Native
8 2 (3.23%) Redux
8 2 (3.23%) REST
8 2 (3.23%) Web Services
9 1 (1.61%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Algorithms
2 8 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.68%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.84%) Hackathon
6 2 (3.23%) Acoustics
6 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.61%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.61%) Clustering
7 1 (1.61%) CUDA
7 1 (1.61%) FPGA
7 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.61%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.97%) Linux
2 10 (16.13%) Unix
3 3 (4.84%) Android
3 3 (4.84%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.84%) Windows
4 2 (3.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.87%) Computer Science
2 20 (32.26%) Agile
3 17 (27.42%) Mathematics
4 14 (22.58%) Physics
5 13 (20.97%) DevOps
5 13 (20.97%) Propensity Modelling
6 11 (17.74%) CI/CD
7 10 (16.13%) SDLC
7 10 (16.13%) Software Testing
8 9 (14.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (12.90%) Open Source
9 8 (12.90%) Parallel Programming
9 8 (12.90%) Performance Analysis
10 7 (11.29%) Machine Learning
10 7 (11.29%) Microservices
11 6 (9.68%) Fintech
11 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (8.06%) Mentoring
12 5 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.71%) C++
2 22 (35.48%) Python
3 21 (33.87%) SQL
4 20 (32.26%) C#
5 16 (25.81%) C
6 13 (20.97%) JavaScript
7 11 (17.74%) TypeScript
8 10 (16.13%) Bash
8 10 (16.13%) Fortran
8 10 (16.13%) Go
9 7 (11.29%) Java
10 5 (8.06%) Perl
10 5 (8.06%) Ruby
10 5 (8.06%) Rust
11 3 (4.84%) PHP
12 1 (1.61%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (46.77%) Degree
2 11 (17.74%) Security Cleared
3 10 (16.13%) Master's Degree
3 10 (16.13%) PhD
3 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
4 8 (12.90%) DV Cleared
5 7 (11.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.23%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.61%) GDPR
1 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.61%) QA
1 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (25.81%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (27.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.52%) Terraform
3 5 (8.06%) Grafana
3 5 (8.06%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.61%) Argo
4 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) Google
3 2 (3.23%) Apple
4 1 (1.61%) VMware