Software Engineering Job Trends in Hampshire

Software Engineering
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 15 6
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 649 166 559
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 12.45% 8.39% 15.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.95% 9.43% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 429 73 355
10th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% -8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,615 1,760 2,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 69.35% 88.98% 77.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,584 1,087 1,912
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
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 Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Hampshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Hampshire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Portsmouth +14 141 £65,000 -7.14% 19
Fareham -1 140 £65,000 - 21
Southampton +16 122 £75,000 +15.38% 20
Farnborough +5 74 £75,000 +36.36% 26
Romsey +11 28 £63,750 - 6
Andover - 23 £35,000 - 5
Gosport - 14 £65,000 -
Eastleigh +11 11 £65,000 +18.18%
Winchester - 10 £80,000 - 4
Basingstoke +2 9 £70,000 -12.50% 4
Aldershot - 9 £50,000 -
Yateley -7 4 £29,000 -58.57% 4
Liss - 4 £35,000 -
Petersfield - 4 £60,000 -
Waterlooville - 4 £75,000 - 2
Hook - 3 £67,500 - 4
Fordingbridge - 3 £52,500 -
Southsea - 2 £67,950 -
Fleet +3 1 - -
Havant - 1 £57,500 -
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (1.23%) Apache
2 2 (0.31%) CMS
2 2 (0.31%) IIS
2 2 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (0.31%) WordPress
3 1 (0.15%) Confluence
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (1.08%) CATIA
2 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Simulink
5 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 58 (8.94%) Azure
2 43 (6.63%) AWS
3 23 (3.54%) Serverless
4 15 (2.31%) GCP
5 13 (2.00%) GitHub
6 10 (1.54%) Azure Functions
6 10 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (0.77%) SaaS
9 4 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.62%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.46%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (0.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.31%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (0.31%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.31%) Google Gemini
11 2 (0.31%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.39%) Wireless
2 10 (1.54%) ATM
2 10 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.23%) Firewall
4 6 (0.92%) 5G
4 6 (0.92%) DNS
4 6 (0.92%) MQTT
4 6 (0.92%) Wireshark
5 5 (0.77%) VPN
6 4 (0.62%) WAN
7 3 (0.46%) DHCP
7 3 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.46%) LAN
7 3 (0.46%) VLAN
8 2 (0.31%) Network Security
8 2 (0.31%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.15%) BGP
9 1 (0.15%) Broadband
9 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.15%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (2.47%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.31%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.08%) Redis
5 6 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.62%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.31%) MySQL
9 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 57 (8.78%) Git
2 17 (2.62%) Rational DOORS
3 15 (2.31%) Visual Studio Code
4 14 (2.16%) GitLab
4 14 (2.16%) JIRA
5 6 (0.92%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.77%) CMake
7 4 (0.62%) Apache Continuum
8 3 (0.46%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.15%) ESLint
10 1 (0.15%) GDB
10 1 (0.15%) Storybook
10 1 (0.15%) Subversion
10 1 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 71 (10.94%) Social Skills
2 58 (8.94%) Aviation
3 57 (8.78%) Electronics
4 39 (6.01%) Aerospace
5 36 (5.55%) Finance
6 33 (5.08%) Military
7 19 (2.93%) Aeronautics
8 17 (2.62%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (1.54%) Automotive
10 10 (1.54%) Games
10 10 (1.54%) Public Sector
11 9 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.31%) Law
15 1 (0.15%) Advertising
15 1 (0.15%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 435 (67.03%) Software Engineer
2 122 (18.80%) Senior
3 92 (14.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 78 (12.02%) Embedded Engineer
5 72 (11.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 67 (10.32%) Principal Engineer
7 53 (8.17%) Lead
8 51 (7.86%) C++ Software Engineer
8 51 (7.86%) Principal Software Engineer
9 40 (6.16%) Lead Software Engineer
10 34 (5.24%) Developer
11 27 (4.16%) Engineering Manager
11 27 (4.16%) Software Engineering Manager
11 27 (4.16%) Software Manager
11 27 (4.16%) Systems Engineer
12 21 (3.24%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 17 (2.62%) Software Developer
14 16 (2.47%) C++ Programmer
14 16 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (2.47%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.08%) .NET
2 28 (4.31%) React
3 22 (3.39%) CSS
3 22 (3.39%) Terraform
4 19 (2.93%) Node.js
5 18 (2.77%) HTML
6 17 (2.62%) AngularJS
7 14 (2.16%) JSON
7 14 (2.16%) XML
8 11 (1.69%) ASP.NET
9 10 (1.54%) Kafka
9 10 (1.54%) REST
10 7 (1.08%) Unreal Engine
10 7 (1.08%) Vue
11 6 (0.92%) Django
11 6 (0.92%) WebSockets
12 5 (0.77%) Yocto
13 4 (0.62%) ASP.NET Core
13 4 (0.62%) ASP.NET Web API
13 4 (0.62%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.25%) Robotics
2 50 (7.70%) Algorithms
3 24 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
4 23 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 20 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.85%) Data Structures
6 12 (1.85%) Driving Licence
7 11 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.23%) PMI
9 7 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.08%) IoT
10 6 (0.92%) Acoustics
11 5 (0.77%) FPGA
12 4 (0.62%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.62%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.46%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.46%) Cyber Warfare
13 3 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.46%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 75 (11.56%) Linux
2 28 (4.31%) Windows
3 9 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.31%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (15.72%) AI
2 90 (13.87%) CI/CD
3 86 (13.25%) Agile
4 64 (9.86%) DevOps
4 64 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (8.47%) Computer Science
6 51 (7.86%) Technical Leadership
7 42 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (5.70%) Software Architecture
9 35 (5.39%) SDLC
10 32 (4.93%) DevSecOps
11 31 (4.78%) Full-Stack Development
12 29 (4.47%) Data Science
12 29 (4.47%) Mentoring
13 28 (4.31%) Test Automation
14 27 (4.16%) Containerisation
15 23 (3.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (3.54%) Microservices
16 22 (3.39%) Systems Engineering
17 21 (3.24%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 148 (22.80%) C++
2 110 (16.95%) Python
3 58 (8.94%) C#
4 55 (8.47%) JavaScript
5 44 (6.78%) TypeScript
6 33 (5.08%) C
7 31 (4.78%) SQL
8 25 (3.85%) Java
9 19 (2.93%) Rust
10 18 (2.77%) Go
11 11 (1.69%) Ada
12 6 (0.92%) PHP
13 5 (0.77%) Embedded C++
14 4 (0.62%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.31%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.15%) Bash
16 1 (0.15%) Embedded C
16 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 132 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 101 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 90 (13.87%) Degree
4 31 (4.78%) DV Cleared
5 26 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.47%) HNC
7 16 (2.47%) Master's Degree
8 14 (2.16%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.23%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.08%) Chartered Engineer
12 5 (0.77%) HND
13 3 (0.46%) CEH
13 3 (0.46%) CISA
13 3 (0.46%) CISM
13 3 (0.46%) CISSP
14 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.54%) GDPR
1 10 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 12207
1 10 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 6 (0.92%) NIST
2 6 (0.92%) NIST 800
3 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.77%) PCI DSS
3 5 (0.77%) QA
4 3 (0.46%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.46%) GRC
4 3 (0.46%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.31%) AUTOSAR
5 2 (0.31%) MISRA
5 2 (0.31%) MISRA C
System Software
1 67 (10.32%) Docker
2 13 (2.00%) Firmware
3 4 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.31%) Ansible
3 3 (0.46%) Argo
3 3 (0.46%) Grafana
3 3 (0.46%) Istio
3 3 (0.46%) Kustomize
3 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.31%) Nagios
4 2 (0.31%) Podman
4 2 (0.31%) Puppet
5 1 (0.15%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.93%) Oracle
3 10 (1.54%) Google
4 8 (1.23%) IBM
5 3 (0.46%) VMware
6 2 (0.31%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.31%) Foundry
6 2 (0.31%) Palantir
6 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.31%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.15%) NVIDIA