Software Engineering Jobs in Reading

Software Engineering
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 19 28
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 -9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 30 146 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 5.80% 8.53% 8.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.71% 9.68% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 30 75 95
10th Percentile £31,750 £43,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £47,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £91,250 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,750 £77,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 447 1,509 1,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 86.46% 88.19% 97.08%
Number of salaries quoted 241 911 794
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,995 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.65% -8.34% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Reading

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Reading

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Reading over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Reading

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (3.33%) CMS
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) Sitefinity
1 1 (3.33%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (6.67%) GitHub
4 2 (6.67%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.33%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Metadata
2 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Gradle
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Selenium
3 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Electronics
3 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Senior
3 6 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Graduate
4 5 (16.67%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Junior
4 5 (16.67%) Junior Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) PHP Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Scientific Software Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) Node.js
2 6 (20.00%) Flutter
2 6 (20.00%) React
3 4 (13.33%) Loki
4 3 (10.00%) .NET
5 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.33%) CSS
6 1 (3.33%) HTML
6 1 (3.33%) Kafka
6 1 (3.33%) REST
6 1 (3.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.00%) Hackathon
4 2 (6.67%) Acoustics
4 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Mac OS
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 8 (26.67%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (23.33%) Microservices
4 6 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (16.67%) Physics
6 4 (13.33%) DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.00%) Analytics
7 3 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (10.00%) Web Application Development
8 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) C++
1 15 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (36.67%) Go
2 11 (36.67%) SQL
3 8 (26.67%) C
3 8 (26.67%) C#
4 7 (23.33%) Java
5 6 (20.00%) Perl
5 6 (20.00%) Ruby
5 6 (20.00%) Rust
6 3 (10.00%) PHP
7 2 (6.67%) Bash
7 2 (6.67%) Fortran
7 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Degree
2 7 (23.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.67%) PhD
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (33.33%) Terraform
3 5 (16.67%) Grafana
3 5 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.33%) Argo
4 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) VMware