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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 39 21
Rank change year-on-year +19 -18 +20
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 256 223 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.31% 7.22% 9.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.69% 7.55% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 169 160 206
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £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 £77,500 £91,250 £71,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £81,875
South East median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% +4.55%

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 2,642 2,955 3,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 85.81% 95.63% 91.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,789 1,604 1,937
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,825 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% +3.45% +5.45%
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,250
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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +8 148 £59,000 -13.24% 28
Bracknell +6 50 £80,000 -13.51% 5
Hungerford - 6 £50,000 -
Newbury -2 5 £55,000 -21.43% 5
Windsor -3 5 - -
Crowthorne - 5 £35,000 -
Thatcham - 4 £50,000 - 5
Maidenhead +15 2 £47,500 -
Slough +13 1 £80,000 +14.29% 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 29 (11.33%) ArcGIS
1 29 (11.33%) GeoServer
2 4 (1.56%) Confluence
3 2 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) JBoss
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (3.13%) OrCAD
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 72 (28.13%) Azure
2 63 (24.61%) AWS
3 13 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (1.95%) Datadog
5 5 (1.95%) Serverless
6 4 (1.56%) Firebolt
7 2 (0.78%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (0.78%) AWS IoT
7 2 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.78%) GCP
7 2 (0.78%) GitHub
7 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.78%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.78%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.78%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.39%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.39%) IaaS
8 1 (0.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.08%) Ethernet
1 13 (5.08%) Network Security
2 10 (3.91%) Wireless
3 9 (3.52%) Internet
4 5 (1.95%) Firewall
4 5 (1.95%) GPRS
4 5 (1.95%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (1.95%) VPN
5 3 (1.17%) RS-485
6 1 (0.39%) MQTT
6 1 (0.39%) RS-232
6 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.89%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.11%) GIS
3 29 (11.33%) QGIS
4 22 (8.59%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.34%) 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%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (14.45%) Git
2 22 (8.59%) Cypress.io
2 22 (8.59%) Selenium
2 22 (8.59%) SoapUI
3 9 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.73%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.56%) GitLab
5 4 (1.56%) JIRA
5 4 (1.56%) Subversion
6 3 (1.17%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.78%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.78%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.39%) Gradle
8 1 (0.39%) JUnit
8 1 (0.39%) Sourcetree
General
1 28 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (8.20%) Finance
3 19 (7.42%) Social Skills
4 10 (3.91%) Electronics
4 10 (3.91%) Telecoms
5 9 (3.52%) Aerospace
5 9 (3.52%) Health Technology
5 9 (3.52%) Tech for Good
6 7 (2.73%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.73%) Retail
7 6 (2.34%) Legal
8 2 (0.78%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 166 (64.84%) Software Engineer
2 89 (34.77%) Senior
3 67 (26.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 44 (17.19%) Lead
5 31 (12.11%) Embedded Engineer
5 31 (12.11%) Software Team Leader
5 31 (12.11%) Team Leader
6 30 (11.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 29 (11.33%) Development Team Leader
7 29 (11.33%) Software Development Team Leader
8 25 (9.77%) Developer
9 23 (8.98%) C++ Software Engineer
10 20 (7.81%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 20 (7.81%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 13 (5.08%) Research Engineer
11 13 (5.08%) Research Software Engineer
12 11 (4.30%) Senior Developer
13 10 (3.91%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) Principal Software Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (33.59%) .NET
2 65 (25.39%) React
3 35 (13.67%) .NET Core
4 29 (11.33%) Leaflet
4 29 (11.33%) OpenLayers
4 29 (11.33%) PostGIS
5 27 (10.55%) CSS
6 22 (8.59%) ASP.NET
6 22 (8.59%) Jest
7 14 (5.47%) Django
8 10 (3.91%) Blazor
9 9 (3.52%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.13%) Vue
11 7 (2.73%) Web Services
12 6 (2.34%) Qt
13 5 (1.95%) FastAPI
13 5 (1.95%) Flask
13 5 (1.95%) Spring
13 5 (1.95%) SQLAlchemy
14 4 (1.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.08%) IoT
3 11 (4.30%) FPGA
4 10 (3.91%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.13%) PCIe
6 5 (1.95%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.95%) Hackathon
6 5 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.56%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.17%) Arduino
8 3 (1.17%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (0.78%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.78%) Mixed Reality
9 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.39%) Analogue Electronics
10 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 46 (17.97%) Linux
2 26 (10.16%) Windows
3 20 (7.81%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (2.73%) Unix
5 5 (1.95%) Kali Linux
6 4 (1.56%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (33.20%) Agile
2 58 (22.66%) DevOps
3 50 (19.53%) Computer Science
4 44 (17.19%) Actionable Insight
5 29 (11.33%) Propensity Modelling
5 29 (11.33%) Web Development
6 27 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (8.98%) Artificial Intelligence
8 21 (8.20%) Machine Learning
9 20 (7.81%) Physics
10 19 (7.42%) Mentoring
11 16 (6.25%) Application Security
12 15 (5.86%) Mathematics
12 15 (5.86%) Open Source
13 14 (5.47%) CI/CD
13 14 (5.47%) Containerisation
13 14 (5.47%) Multithreading
14 13 (5.08%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (5.08%) OWASP
14 13 (5.08%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (27.73%) Python
2 69 (26.95%) C#
3 62 (24.22%) JavaScript
4 55 (21.48%) SQL
5 37 (14.45%) C++
6 35 (13.67%) TypeScript
7 32 (12.50%) C
8 22 (8.59%) Java
9 14 (5.47%) PowerShell
10 13 (5.08%) Bash
11 7 (2.73%) Fortran
12 6 (2.34%) Go
12 6 (2.34%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.95%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.95%) Ruby
14 4 (1.56%) Perl
14 4 (1.56%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.78%) Haskell
15 2 (0.78%) Rust
16 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 87 (33.98%) Degree
2 53 (20.70%) Security Cleared
3 42 (16.41%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.08%) CISSP
6 10 (3.91%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.52%) PhD
8 8 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.13%) CISM
8 8 (3.13%) GIAC
8 8 (3.13%) GPEN
9 5 (1.95%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.69%) QA
2 11 (4.30%) NIST
3 8 (3.13%) GRC
4 6 (2.34%) GDPR
4 6 (2.34%) NIST 800
5 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) JTAG
System Software
1 35 (13.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.52%) Ansible
3 7 (2.73%) Terraform
4 6 (2.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (2.34%) Nessus
5 5 (1.95%) Suricata
6 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (11.72%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.33%) ESRI
3 8 (3.13%) EMC
4 6 (2.34%) Qualys
5 5 (1.95%) Cisco
5 5 (1.95%) Juniper
5 5 (1.95%) Palo Alto
5 5 (1.95%) Splunk
6 4 (1.56%) Oracle
7 2 (0.78%) IFS
7 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.39%) Databricks
8 1 (0.39%) Google
8 1 (0.39%) SAP