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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 35 23
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 260 248 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.39% 7.80% 9.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.70% 8.20% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 174 180 194
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,969 £40,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £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 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +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 2,681 3,026 3,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.51% 95.22% 91.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,875 1,674 2,003
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,995 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £81,650
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +8.91%

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 23 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 23 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 +5 146 £60,000 -14.29% 26
Bracknell +9 57 £80,000 -8.57% 3
Newbury +10 9 £56,250 -19.64% 5
Hungerford - 6 £50,000 - 1
Windsor -5 5 - - 3
Crowthorne - 5 £35,000 - 1
Maidenhead +5 3 £47,500 -20.83% 1
Thatcham - 2 - - 1
Slough +9 1 £80,000 +14.29% 6
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 (11.15%) ArcGIS
1 29 (11.15%) GeoServer
2 4 (1.54%) Confluence
3 3 (1.15%) Apache
4 2 (0.77%) JBoss
4 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.69%) OrCAD
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 73 (28.08%) Azure
2 61 (23.46%) AWS
3 15 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.46%) Serverless
5 6 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (1.92%) Datadog
7 4 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (1.54%) AWS IoT
7 4 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.54%) Firebolt
8 2 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.77%) GitHub
8 2 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.77%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.77%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.77%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.77%) SaaS
9 1 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.38%) GCP
9 1 (0.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.62%) Ethernet
2 10 (3.85%) Network Security
3 8 (3.08%) Internet
3 8 (3.08%) Wireless
4 5 (1.92%) GPRS
5 3 (1.15%) RS-485
6 2 (0.77%) Firewall
6 2 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.77%) VPN
7 1 (0.38%) MQTT
7 1 (0.38%) RS-232
7 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.69%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (11.92%) GIS
3 29 (11.15%) QGIS
4 27 (10.38%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.31%) Redis
7 5 (1.92%) MySQL
7 5 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.15%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.77%) Power BI
10 1 (0.38%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (15.00%) Git
2 28 (10.77%) Selenium
3 27 (10.38%) Cypress.io
3 27 (10.38%) SoapUI
4 8 (3.08%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.92%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.54%) GitLab
6 4 (1.54%) JIRA
6 4 (1.54%) Subversion
7 3 (1.15%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.15%) JDeveloper
8 2 (0.77%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.77%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.38%) Gradle
9 1 (0.38%) JUnit
9 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.38%) Sourcetree
General
1 22 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (8.08%) Finance
3 20 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.23%) Health Technology
4 11 (4.23%) Tech for Good
5 10 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.46%) Electronics
7 8 (3.08%) Retail
8 7 (2.69%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.69%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.31%) Legal
10 3 (1.15%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 163 (62.69%) Software Engineer
2 86 (33.08%) Senior
3 65 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 42 (16.15%) Lead
5 30 (11.54%) Developer
6 28 (10.77%) Development Team Leader
6 28 (10.77%) Software Development Team Leader
6 28 (10.77%) Software Team Leader
6 28 (10.77%) Team Leader
7 27 (10.38%) Embedded Engineer
8 26 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 24 (9.23%) C++ Software Engineer
10 17 (6.54%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 17 (6.54%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 12 (4.62%) Research Engineer
11 12 (4.62%) Research Software Engineer
11 12 (4.62%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.23%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.85%) Principal Software Engineer
13 10 (3.85%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (33.46%) .NET
2 70 (26.92%) React
3 34 (13.08%) .NET Core
4 29 (11.15%) Leaflet
4 29 (11.15%) OpenLayers
4 29 (11.15%) PostGIS
5 27 (10.38%) CSS
6 24 (9.23%) Jest
7 19 (7.31%) ASP.NET
8 14 (5.38%) Django
9 11 (4.23%) AngularJS
9 11 (4.23%) Blazor
9 11 (4.23%) Spring
10 8 (3.08%) Vue
11 6 (2.31%) REST
11 6 (2.31%) Web Services
12 5 (1.92%) Flask
12 5 (1.92%) Kafka
12 5 (1.92%) Qt
12 5 (1.92%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (5.38%) IoT
3 11 (4.23%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.46%) FPGA
5 8 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.69%) PCIe
7 5 (1.92%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.15%) Arduino
9 3 (1.15%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.15%) Raspberry Pi
10 2 (0.77%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.77%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.77%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.38%) Analogue Electronics
11 1 (0.38%) Mixed Reality
Operating Systems
1 46 (17.69%) Linux
2 33 (12.69%) Windows
3 17 (6.54%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (2.69%) Unix
5 4 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.77%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (35.77%) Agile
2 58 (22.31%) DevOps
3 50 (19.23%) Actionable Insight
4 46 (17.69%) Computer Science
5 33 (12.69%) Propensity Modelling
6 29 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (11.15%) Web Development
7 21 (8.08%) Artificial Intelligence
7 21 (8.08%) Mentoring
8 20 (7.69%) Machine Learning
9 18 (6.92%) Microservices
10 17 (6.54%) Containerisation
10 17 (6.54%) Multithreading
11 15 (5.77%) Clean Code
12 14 (5.38%) CI/CD
12 14 (5.38%) Unit Testing
13 13 (5.00%) Full Stack Development
13 13 (5.00%) Mathematics
13 13 (5.00%) Open Source
13 13 (5.00%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 73 (28.08%) C#
2 70 (26.92%) Python
3 68 (26.15%) JavaScript
4 59 (22.69%) SQL
5 41 (15.77%) TypeScript
6 37 (14.23%) C++
7 35 (13.46%) C
8 23 (8.85%) Java
9 14 (5.38%) Bash
10 10 (3.85%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.69%) Fortran
11 7 (2.69%) Ruby
12 6 (2.31%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.92%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.92%) Go
14 4 (1.54%) Perl
14 4 (1.54%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.15%) PHP
16 1 (0.38%) Haskell
16 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (33.46%) Degree
2 54 (20.77%) Security Cleared
3 43 (16.54%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.85%) CISSP
5 10 (3.85%) Master's Degree
6 9 (3.46%) PhD
7 8 (3.08%) CISM
7 8 (3.08%) GIAC
7 8 (3.08%) GPEN
8 5 (1.92%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.00%) QA
2 8 (3.08%) GRC
2 8 (3.08%) NIST
3 6 (2.31%) GDPR
3 6 (2.31%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) JTAG
System Software
1 42 (16.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.69%) Ansible
2 7 (2.69%) Terraform
3 6 (2.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 6 (2.31%) Nessus
4 2 (0.77%) Suricata
5 1 (0.38%) Grafana
5 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (11.15%) ESRI
2 27 (10.38%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.69%) EMC
4 6 (2.31%) Qualys
5 4 (1.54%) Oracle
6 2 (0.77%) Cisco
6 2 (0.77%) IFS
6 2 (0.77%) Juniper
6 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.77%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.77%) Splunk
7 1 (0.38%) Google
7 1 (0.38%) SAP