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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 16 37
Rank change year-on-year -56 +21 -18
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 56 289 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.43% 9.00% 7.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 10.59% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 54 190 150
10th Percentile £36,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,848 £47,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,188 £91,250
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £97,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +13.04%

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 1,508 2,728 2,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.35% 84.93% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 544 1,807 1,581
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £38,183 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £75,313 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,625 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 30 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 30 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 -25 27 £60,000 - 190
Bracknell 0 11 £90,000 +12.50% 5
Maidenhead -23 4 £75,000 +57.89% 15
Windsor -27 2 - - 1
Wokingham - 1 £65,000 - 3
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 (1.79%) CMS
1 1 (1.79%) Confluence
1 1 (1.79%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.79%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.64%) AWS
2 10 (17.86%) Azure
3 7 (12.50%) GCP
4 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.14%) GitHub
6 3 (5.36%) Serverless
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.57%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.57%) Firebase
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.79%) IaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) DNS
1 1 (1.79%) Firewall
1 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
1 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.57%) Metadata
3 2 (3.57%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) Selenium
2 5 (8.93%) Visual Studio
3 4 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 4 (7.14%) SoapUI
4 3 (5.36%) JIRA
5 1 (1.79%) GitLab
5 1 (1.79%) Gradle
5 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Finance
4 2 (3.57%) Electronics
4 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Retail
5 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (51.79%) Software Engineer
2 15 (26.79%) Senior
3 13 (23.21%) Lead
4 7 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Development Team Leader
5 6 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Software Development Team Leader
5 6 (10.71%) Software Team Leader
5 6 (10.71%) Team Leader
6 5 (8.93%) Graduate
6 5 (8.93%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Junior
6 5 (8.93%) Junior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Architect
7 3 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Software Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.43%) .NET
2 11 (19.64%) React
3 8 (14.29%) Node.js
4 6 (10.71%) Jest
5 5 (8.93%) Loki
6 4 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET
7 3 (5.36%) CSS
7 3 (5.36%) HTML
8 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (3.57%) CSS3
8 2 (3.57%) HTML5
8 2 (3.57%) React Native
8 2 (3.57%) Redux
8 2 (3.57%) REST
8 2 (3.57%) Web Services
9 1 (1.79%) Kafka
9 1 (1.79%) OpenCV
9 1 (1.79%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Algorithms
2 7 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.71%) Public Cloud
4 4 (7.14%) Hackathon
5 3 (5.36%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.57%) Acoustics
6 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.79%) Clustering
7 1 (1.79%) CUDA
7 1 (1.79%) FPGA
7 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.43%) Linux
2 10 (17.86%) Unix
3 3 (5.36%) Android
3 3 (5.36%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.36%) Windows
4 2 (3.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.07%) Computer Science
2 17 (30.36%) Agile
2 17 (30.36%) Mathematics
3 14 (25.00%) Physics
4 11 (19.64%) DevOps
5 10 (17.86%) CI/CD
5 10 (17.86%) Propensity Modelling
5 10 (17.86%) SDLC
5 10 (17.86%) Software Testing
6 8 (14.29%) Open Source
6 8 (14.29%) Parallel Programming
6 8 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
7 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (10.71%) Clean Code
8 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (8.93%) Fintech
9 5 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) SQL
2 18 (32.14%) C++
2 18 (32.14%) Python
3 17 (30.36%) C#
4 11 (19.64%) Bash
4 11 (19.64%) C
5 10 (17.86%) Fortran
5 10 (17.86%) JavaScript
6 8 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 7 (12.50%) Go
7 7 (12.50%) Java
8 3 (5.36%) PHP
9 1 (1.79%) Perl
9 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.79%) Ruby
9 1 (1.79%) Rust
9 1 (1.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (50.00%) Degree
2 13 (23.21%) Security Cleared
3 10 (17.86%) Master's Degree
3 10 (17.86%) PhD
3 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 9 (16.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (14.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.57%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) GDPR
1 3 (5.36%) HIPAA
1 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.36%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (16.07%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.50%) Terraform
3 6 (10.71%) Grafana
3 6 (10.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.79%) Ansible
4 1 (1.79%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (3.57%) Apple