Software Engineering Jobs in Berkshire

Software Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 32 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 257 250 321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.34% 7.86% 9.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.65% 8.24% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 169 179 197
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,025 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £58,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,664 3,035 3,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.41% 95.41% 91.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,852 1,664 1,990
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £92,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +7 146 £60,000 -14.29% 21
Bracknell +7 53 £80,000 -8.57% 2
Newbury +3 8 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Hungerford - 6 £50,000 - 1
Windsor -5 5 - - 1
Crowthorne - 5 £35,000 - 1
Maidenhead +9 3 £47,500 -20.83%
Thatcham - 3 - - 2
Slough +10 1 £80,000 +14.29% 2
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 29 (11.28%) ArcGIS
1 29 (11.28%) GeoServer
2 4 (1.56%) Confluence
3 2 (0.78%) Apache
3 2 (0.78%) JBoss
3 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.72%) OrCAD
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 72 (28.02%) Azure
2 59 (22.96%) AWS
3 15 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.11%) Serverless
5 6 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (1.95%) Datadog
7 4 (1.56%) Firebolt
8 3 (1.17%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.17%) AWS IoT
8 3 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.78%) GitHub
9 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.78%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.78%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.78%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.78%) SaaS
10 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.39%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.39%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.67%) Ethernet
2 11 (4.28%) Network Security
3 9 (3.50%) Wireless
4 8 (3.11%) Internet
5 5 (1.95%) GPRS
6 3 (1.17%) Firewall
6 3 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (1.17%) RS-485
6 3 (1.17%) VPN
7 1 (0.39%) MQTT
7 1 (0.39%) RS-232
7 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.06%) GIS
3 29 (11.28%) QGIS
4 24 (9.34%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.11%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.33%) Redis
7 5 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.56%) MySQL
9 3 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.17%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.17%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.78%) Power BI
11 1 (0.39%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 38 (14.79%) Git
2 25 (9.73%) Selenium
3 24 (9.34%) Cypress.io
3 24 (9.34%) SoapUI
4 8 (3.11%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.95%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.56%) GitLab
6 4 (1.56%) JIRA
6 4 (1.56%) Subversion
7 3 (1.17%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.17%) JDeveloper
8 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.78%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.39%) Gradle
9 1 (0.39%) JUnit
9 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.39%) Sourcetree
General
1 23 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (8.17%) Finance
3 20 (7.78%) Social Skills
4 10 (3.89%) Electronics
4 10 (3.89%) Health Technology
4 10 (3.89%) Tech for Good
4 10 (3.89%) Telecoms
5 8 (3.11%) Retail
6 7 (2.72%) Aerospace
6 7 (2.72%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.33%) Legal
8 3 (1.17%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 163 (63.42%) Software Engineer
2 88 (34.24%) Senior
3 67 (26.07%) Senior Software Engineer
4 42 (16.34%) Lead
5 29 (11.28%) Developer
5 29 (11.28%) Embedded Engineer
6 28 (10.89%) Development Team Leader
6 28 (10.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 28 (10.89%) Software Development Team Leader
6 28 (10.89%) Software Team Leader
6 28 (10.89%) Team Leader
7 23 (8.95%) C++ Software Engineer
8 19 (7.39%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 19 (7.39%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 12 (4.67%) Research Engineer
9 12 (4.67%) Research Software Engineer
9 12 (4.67%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.28%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.89%) Principal Software Engineer
11 10 (3.89%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (33.07%) .NET
2 68 (26.46%) React
3 34 (13.23%) .NET Core
4 29 (11.28%) Leaflet
4 29 (11.28%) OpenLayers
4 29 (11.28%) PostGIS
5 27 (10.51%) CSS
6 23 (8.95%) Jest
7 19 (7.39%) ASP.NET
8 14 (5.45%) Django
9 10 (3.89%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.89%) Blazor
10 9 (3.50%) Spring
11 8 (3.11%) Vue
12 7 (2.72%) Web Services
13 5 (1.95%) Flask
13 5 (1.95%) Qt
13 5 (1.95%) REST
13 5 (1.95%) SQLAlchemy
13 5 (1.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.23%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (5.45%) IoT
3 11 (4.28%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.50%) FPGA
5 8 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.72%) PCIe
7 5 (1.95%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.17%) Arduino
9 3 (1.17%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.17%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.17%) Raspberry Pi
10 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.78%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.78%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.39%) Mixed Reality
Operating Systems
1 46 (17.90%) Linux
2 30 (11.67%) Windows
3 19 (7.39%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (2.72%) Unix
5 4 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.17%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (34.63%) Agile
2 58 (22.57%) DevOps
3 50 (19.46%) Actionable Insight
4 47 (18.29%) Computer Science
5 30 (11.67%) Propensity Modelling
6 29 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (11.28%) Web Development
7 21 (8.17%) Artificial Intelligence
7 21 (8.17%) Mentoring
8 20 (7.78%) Machine Learning
9 17 (6.61%) Containerisation
10 16 (6.23%) Microservices
10 16 (6.23%) Multithreading
11 15 (5.84%) Clean Code
11 15 (5.84%) Physics
12 14 (5.45%) Application Security
12 14 (5.45%) CI/CD
12 14 (5.45%) Mathematics
12 14 (5.45%) Unit Testing
13 13 (5.06%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 70 (27.24%) C#
1 70 (27.24%) Python
2 64 (24.90%) JavaScript
3 57 (22.18%) SQL
4 37 (14.40%) TypeScript
5 35 (13.62%) C++
6 34 (13.23%) C
7 22 (8.56%) Java
8 14 (5.45%) Bash
9 11 (4.28%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.72%) Fortran
10 7 (2.72%) Ruby
11 6 (2.33%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.95%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.95%) Go
13 4 (1.56%) Perl
13 4 (1.56%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.78%) PHP
15 1 (0.39%) Haskell
15 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (33.07%) Degree
2 54 (21.01%) Security Cleared
3 43 (16.73%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.28%) CISSP
6 10 (3.89%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.50%) PhD
8 8 (3.11%) CISM
8 8 (3.11%) GIAC
8 8 (3.11%) GPEN
9 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.06%) QA
2 9 (3.50%) NIST
3 8 (3.11%) GRC
4 6 (2.33%) GDPR
4 6 (2.33%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) JTAG
System Software
1 38 (14.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (12.45%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.72%) Ansible
2 7 (2.72%) Terraform
3 6 (2.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 6 (2.33%) Nessus
4 3 (1.17%) Suricata
5 1 (0.39%) Grafana
5 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (11.28%) ESRI
2 28 (10.89%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.72%) EMC
4 6 (2.33%) Qualys
5 4 (1.56%) Oracle
6 3 (1.17%) Cisco
6 3 (1.17%) Juniper
6 3 (1.17%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.17%) Splunk
7 2 (0.78%) IFS
7 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.39%) Google
8 1 (0.39%) SAP