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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 38 19
Rank change year-on-year +24 -19 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 311 202 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.36% 6.88% 10.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.21% 7.22% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 206 144 217
10th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £43,400
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 £80,000 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £80,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +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 2,774 2,797 3,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.53% 95.27% 91.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,805 1,551 2,007
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £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 9 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 9 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 +21 181 £58,000 -10.77% 34
Bracknell +11 56 £80,000 -15.79% 2
Thatcham - 11 £47,500 - 3
Newbury 0 7 £50,000 -28.57% 8
Hungerford - 6 £50,000 -
Windsor -4 5 - -
Crowthorne - 5 £35,000 -
Maidenhead +21 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 28 (9.00%) ArcGIS
1 28 (9.00%) GeoServer
2 3 (0.96%) Confluence
3 2 (0.64%) Apache
4 1 (0.32%) nginx
4 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.57%) OrCAD
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 75 (24.12%) Azure
2 68 (21.86%) AWS
3 13 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (1.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (1.93%) SaaS
5 5 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (1.61%) Datadog
6 4 (1.29%) Firebolt
6 4 (1.29%) Serverless
7 2 (0.64%) GCP
7 2 (0.64%) GitHub
7 2 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.64%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.64%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.64%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.32%) AWS IoT
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.32%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.43%) Network Security
2 13 (4.18%) Ethernet
3 10 (3.22%) Wireless
4 8 (2.57%) Internet
5 5 (1.61%) Firewall
5 5 (1.61%) GPRS
5 5 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.61%) VPN
6 3 (0.96%) RS-485
7 1 (0.32%) MQTT
7 1 (0.32%) RS-232
7 1 (0.32%) RTP
7 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (9.65%) GIS
3 28 (9.00%) QGIS
4 25 (8.04%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.57%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.93%) Redis
7 3 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.96%) MySQL
7 3 (0.96%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.64%) Power BI
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (11.90%) Git
2 25 (8.04%) Selenium
3 24 (7.72%) Cypress.io
3 24 (7.72%) SoapUI
4 10 (3.22%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.89%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.29%) GitLab
7 3 (0.96%) JIRA
7 3 (0.96%) Subversion
8 2 (0.64%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.64%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.32%) Gradle
9 1 (0.32%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.32%) JUnit
9 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.32%) Sourcetree
General
1 35 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (7.07%) Finance
3 20 (6.43%) Social Skills
4 12 (3.86%) Electronics
5 10 (3.22%) Aerospace
5 10 (3.22%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.57%) Health Technology
6 8 (2.57%) Tech for Good
7 7 (2.25%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.25%) Retail
8 6 (1.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.32%) Marketing
9 1 (0.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 204 (65.59%) Software Engineer
2 98 (31.51%) Senior
3 77 (24.76%) Senior Software Engineer
4 63 (20.26%) Lead
5 50 (16.08%) Team Leader
6 44 (14.15%) Software Team Leader
7 38 (12.22%) Development Team Leader
7 38 (12.22%) Software Development Team Leader
8 34 (10.93%) Embedded Engineer
9 33 (10.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 24 (7.72%) Developer
11 20 (6.43%) C++ Software Engineer
11 20 (6.43%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 20 (6.43%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 17 (5.47%) Research Engineer
12 17 (5.47%) Research Software Engineer
13 12 (3.86%) Java Team Leader
14 11 (3.54%) Software Developer
15 10 (3.22%) Graduate
15 10 (3.22%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (28.62%) .NET
2 65 (20.90%) React
3 38 (12.22%) .NET Core
4 28 (9.00%) Leaflet
4 28 (9.00%) OpenLayers
4 28 (9.00%) PostGIS
5 27 (8.68%) CSS
6 24 (7.72%) Jest
7 21 (6.75%) ASP.NET
8 13 (4.18%) Django
9 9 (2.89%) Blazor
10 8 (2.57%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.25%) Vue
12 6 (1.93%) Web Services
13 5 (1.61%) FastAPI
13 5 (1.61%) Flask
13 5 (1.61%) Qt
13 5 (1.61%) SQLAlchemy
14 4 (1.29%) Kafka
14 4 (1.29%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.40%) Algorithms
2 19 (6.11%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (4.82%) IoT
4 11 (3.54%) FPGA
5 8 (2.57%) PCIe
6 7 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.93%) Mixed Reality
8 5 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.61%) Hackathon
8 5 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.29%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.96%) Arduino
10 3 (0.96%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.96%) Raspberry Pi
11 2 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.64%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.64%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.32%) Analogue Electronics
Operating Systems
1 59 (18.97%) Linux
2 22 (7.07%) Windows
3 20 (6.43%) Embedded Linux
4 19 (6.11%) Unix
5 5 (1.61%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.32%) Android
7 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (28.62%) Agile
2 69 (22.19%) Computer Science
3 53 (17.04%) DevOps
4 38 (12.22%) Propensity Modelling
5 37 (11.90%) Actionable Insight
6 35 (11.25%) Physics
7 30 (9.65%) Mathematics
8 29 (9.32%) Artificial Intelligence
8 29 (9.32%) Web Development
9 25 (8.04%) Open Source
10 24 (7.72%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (7.72%) SDLC
10 24 (7.72%) Software Testing
11 23 (7.40%) Machine Learning
12 19 (6.11%) Parallel Programming
12 19 (6.11%) Performance Analysis
13 18 (5.79%) Mentoring
14 17 (5.47%) Full Stack Development
15 16 (5.14%) Application Security
16 15 (4.82%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 84 (27.01%) Python
2 76 (24.44%) C#
3 68 (21.86%) JavaScript
4 56 (18.01%) SQL
5 47 (15.11%) C++
6 42 (13.50%) C
7 38 (12.22%) TypeScript
8 26 (8.36%) Java
9 22 (7.07%) Bash
10 19 (6.11%) Fortran
11 15 (4.82%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.93%) Embedded C
12 6 (1.93%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.29%) Go
14 3 (0.96%) Haskell
14 3 (0.96%) Rust
14 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.64%) Ruby
16 1 (0.32%) Perl
16 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 102 (32.80%) Degree
2 62 (19.94%) Security Cleared
3 38 (12.22%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.07%) Master's Degree
5 21 (6.75%) PhD
6 20 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.18%) CISSP
8 8 (2.57%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.57%) CISM
8 8 (2.57%) GIAC
8 8 (2.57%) GPEN
9 5 (1.61%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.32%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.54%) NIST
2 9 (2.89%) QA
3 8 (2.57%) GRC
4 6 (1.93%) GDPR
4 6 (1.93%) NIST 800
5 5 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) JTAG
System Software
1 37 (11.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.22%) Ansible
3 7 (2.25%) Terraform
4 6 (1.93%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (1.93%) Nessus
5 5 (1.61%) Suricata
6 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 47 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.00%) ESRI
3 8 (2.57%) EMC
4 6 (1.93%) Qualys
5 5 (1.61%) Cisco
5 5 (1.61%) Juniper
5 5 (1.61%) Palo Alto
5 5 (1.61%) Splunk
6 2 (0.64%) IFS
6 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.32%) Databricks
7 1 (0.32%) Google
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle
7 1 (0.32%) SAP