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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 41 20
Rank change year-on-year +25 -21 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 296 200 377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.10% 6.69% 10.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.79% 7.02% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 195 144 215
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,000
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 £78,750 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £80,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.73% +12.17% +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 2,743 2,848 3,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 84.30% 95.25% 91.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,809 1,572 1,980
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,775 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% +1.27% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,375
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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +16 172 £59,000 -9.23% 24
Bracknell +8 53 £80,000 -15.79% 3
Thatcham - 10 £45,000 - 3
Newbury -1 7 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Hungerford - 6 £50,000 -
Windsor -3 5 - - 1
Crowthorne - 5 £35,000 -
Maidenhead +22 2 £47,500 - 2
Slough +6 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 (9.80%) ArcGIS
1 29 (9.80%) GeoServer
2 4 (1.35%) Confluence
3 2 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) nginx
4 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.70%) OrCAD
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 76 (25.68%) Azure
2 69 (23.31%) AWS
3 13 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (1.69%) Datadog
6 4 (1.35%) Firebolt
6 4 (1.35%) SaaS
6 4 (1.35%) Serverless
7 2 (0.68%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (0.68%) AWS IoT
7 2 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.68%) GCP
7 2 (0.68%) GitHub
7 2 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.68%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.68%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.68%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.34%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.41%) Network Security
2 13 (4.39%) Ethernet
3 10 (3.38%) Wireless
4 9 (3.04%) Internet
5 5 (1.69%) Firewall
5 5 (1.69%) GPRS
5 5 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.69%) VPN
6 3 (1.01%) RS-485
7 1 (0.34%) MQTT
7 1 (0.34%) RS-232
7 1 (0.34%) RTP
7 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.15%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (10.47%) GIS
3 29 (9.80%) QGIS
4 23 (7.77%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.03%) Redis
7 3 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.01%) MySQL
7 3 (1.01%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.68%) Power BI
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (12.16%) Git
2 24 (8.11%) Selenium
3 23 (7.77%) Cypress.io
3 23 (7.77%) SoapUI
4 10 (3.38%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.70%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.35%) GitLab
6 4 (1.35%) JIRA
6 4 (1.35%) Subversion
7 2 (0.68%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.68%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.34%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.34%) Gradle
8 1 (0.34%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.34%) JUnit
8 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.34%) Sourcetree
General
1 32 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (7.43%) Finance
3 20 (6.76%) Social Skills
4 11 (3.72%) Electronics
5 10 (3.38%) Aerospace
5 10 (3.38%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.04%) Health Technology
6 9 (3.04%) Tech for Good
7 7 (2.36%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.36%) Retail
8 6 (2.03%) Legal
9 1 (0.34%) Marketing
9 1 (0.34%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 195 (65.88%) Software Engineer
2 100 (33.78%) Senior
3 78 (26.35%) Senior Software Engineer
4 56 (18.92%) Lead
5 43 (14.53%) Team Leader
6 38 (12.84%) Software Team Leader
7 34 (11.49%) Development Team Leader
7 34 (11.49%) Software Development Team Leader
8 32 (10.81%) Embedded Engineer
9 31 (10.47%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 25 (8.45%) Developer
11 22 (7.43%) C++ Software Engineer
12 20 (6.76%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 20 (6.76%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 15 (5.07%) Research Engineer
13 15 (5.07%) Research Software Engineer
14 11 (3.72%) Senior Developer
15 10 (3.38%) Lead Software Engineer
15 10 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (3.38%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (30.07%) .NET
2 65 (21.96%) React
3 36 (12.16%) .NET Core
4 29 (9.80%) Leaflet
4 29 (9.80%) OpenLayers
4 29 (9.80%) PostGIS
5 27 (9.12%) CSS
6 23 (7.77%) Jest
7 22 (7.43%) ASP.NET
8 14 (4.73%) Django
9 10 (3.38%) Blazor
10 8 (2.70%) AngularJS
10 8 (2.70%) Vue
11 6 (2.03%) Qt
11 6 (2.03%) Web Services
12 5 (1.69%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.69%) Flask
12 5 (1.69%) SQLAlchemy
13 4 (1.35%) Kafka
13 4 (1.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.76%) Algorithms
2 19 (6.42%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.07%) IoT
4 11 (3.72%) FPGA
5 8 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.70%) PCIe
6 5 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.69%) Hackathon
6 5 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.35%) Mixed Reality
7 4 (1.35%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.01%) Arduino
8 3 (1.01%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.01%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.68%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Analogue Electronics
Operating Systems
1 58 (19.59%) Linux
2 24 (8.11%) Windows
3 20 (6.76%) Embedded Linux
4 17 (5.74%) Unix
5 5 (1.69%) Kali Linux
6 4 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (29.73%) Agile
2 66 (22.30%) Computer Science
3 55 (18.58%) DevOps
4 39 (13.18%) Actionable Insight
5 34 (11.49%) Propensity Modelling
6 32 (10.81%) Physics
7 29 (9.80%) Web Development
8 27 (9.12%) Mathematics
9 26 (8.78%) Artificial Intelligence
10 24 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (7.77%) Open Source
12 22 (7.43%) Machine Learning
12 22 (7.43%) SDLC
12 22 (7.43%) Software Testing
13 19 (6.42%) Mentoring
14 17 (5.74%) Parallel Programming
14 17 (5.74%) Performance Analysis
15 16 (5.41%) Application Security
15 16 (5.41%) Full Stack Development
16 15 (5.07%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 82 (27.70%) Python
2 74 (25.00%) C#
3 65 (21.96%) JavaScript
4 57 (19.26%) SQL
5 45 (15.20%) C++
6 40 (13.51%) C
7 37 (12.50%) TypeScript
8 24 (8.11%) Java
9 20 (6.76%) Bash
10 17 (5.74%) Fortran
11 15 (5.07%) PowerShell
12 6 (2.03%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.69%) Embedded C
14 4 (1.35%) Go
14 4 (1.35%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.01%) Haskell
15 3 (1.01%) Rust
16 2 (0.68%) Ruby
17 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (33.45%) Degree
2 61 (20.61%) Security Cleared
3 40 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.76%) Master's Degree
5 19 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (6.42%) PhD
6 13 (4.39%) CISSP
7 8 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.70%) CISM
7 8 (2.70%) GIAC
7 8 (2.70%) GPEN
8 5 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.72%) NIST
2 9 (3.04%) QA
3 8 (2.70%) GRC
4 6 (2.03%) GDPR
4 6 (2.03%) NIST 800
5 5 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) JTAG
System Software
1 36 (12.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.38%) Ansible
3 7 (2.36%) Terraform
4 6 (2.03%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (2.03%) Nessus
5 5 (1.69%) Suricata
6 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.80%) ESRI
3 8 (2.70%) EMC
4 6 (2.03%) Qualys
5 5 (1.69%) Cisco
5 5 (1.69%) Juniper
5 5 (1.69%) Palo Alto
5 5 (1.69%) Splunk
6 2 (0.68%) IFS
6 2 (0.68%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.34%) Databricks
7 1 (0.34%) Google
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle
7 1 (0.34%) SAP