Software Engineering Jobs in the South West

Software Engineering
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 10 21 10
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,317 689 1,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.18% 10.42% 16.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.30% 11.03% 17.54%
Number of salaries quoted 988 403 742
10th Percentile £35,475 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,450 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% +4.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,607 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,079 6,247 8,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 80.87% 94.48% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5,787 3,513 4,997
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,505 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,897
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +9.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the South West.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the South West 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
Bristol +11 464 £57,500 -12.01% 89
Gloucestershire +11 329 £55,000 -15.38% 51
Dorset +24 216 £57,500 +15.00% 35
Wiltshire +18 130 £55,000 -21.43% 16
Devon +28 92 £45,000 - 24
Somerset +10 50 £55,000 -3.84% 19
Cornwall -12 8 £80,000 +190.91% 2
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 77 (5.85%) Confluence
2 29 (2.20%) Apache
3 27 (2.05%) ArcGIS
3 27 (2.05%) GeoServer
4 22 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.15%) CMS
7 1 (0.076%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.076%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (1.44%) Simulink
2 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 1 (0.076%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 232 (17.62%) AWS
2 187 (14.20%) Azure
3 44 (3.34%) GCP
4 41 (3.11%) Serverless
5 32 (2.43%) OpenShift
6 29 (2.20%) SaaS
7 27 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (0.91%) npm
10 11 (0.84%) GitHub
11 9 (0.68%) Amazon S3
11 9 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (0.68%) Power Platform
12 8 (0.61%) Azure Functions
13 6 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.38%) Azure Storage
15 4 (0.30%) Azure Pipelines
15 4 (0.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.82%) AMQP
2 13 (0.99%) Internet
3 10 (0.76%) HTTP
3 10 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (0.61%) Bluetooth
4 8 (0.61%) DNS
4 8 (0.61%) Network Security
4 8 (0.61%) SMTP
4 8 (0.61%) Wireless
5 5 (0.38%) Ethernet
5 5 (0.38%) RS-232
6 4 (0.30%) ZigBee
7 2 (0.15%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.15%) 5G
8 1 (0.076%) OFDM
8 1 (0.076%) PPP
8 1 (0.076%) RS-422
8 1 (0.076%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.076%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (4.40%) SQL Server
3 32 (2.43%) MySQL
4 30 (2.28%) Big Data
5 28 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 27 (2.05%) GIS
6 27 (2.05%) QGIS
7 23 (1.75%) Hadoop
8 18 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
9 11 (0.84%) SQLite
10 9 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.61%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.46%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.46%) Power BI
13 5 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.38%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.30%) Flink
Development Applications
1 168 (12.76%) Git
2 113 (8.58%) Visual Studio
3 96 (7.29%) JIRA
4 79 (6.00%) Bitbucket
5 59 (4.48%) Sourcetree
6 46 (3.49%) Jenkins
7 27 (2.05%) LabVIEW
8 25 (1.90%) Subversion
9 23 (1.75%) GitLab
10 17 (1.29%) Rational Rhapsody
11 11 (0.84%) Eclipse
12 9 (0.68%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.68%) NetBeans
12 9 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
12 9 (0.68%) Storybook
13 7 (0.53%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
13 7 (0.53%) Selenium
14 6 (0.46%) MSTest
14 6 (0.46%) NUnit
General
1 140 (10.63%) Social Skills
2 106 (8.05%) Finance
3 86 (6.53%) Aerospace
4 80 (6.07%) Presentation Skills
5 74 (5.62%) Manufacturing
6 72 (5.47%) Games
7 66 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (3.42%) Electronics
9 45 (3.42%) Retail
10 40 (3.04%) Marketing
11 36 (2.73%) Automotive
12 34 (2.58%) Banking
13 28 (2.13%) Aviation
14 24 (1.82%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.44%) Public Sector
16 17 (1.29%) Military
17 15 (1.14%) Law
18 14 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 14 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 946 (71.83%) Software Engineer
2 409 (31.06%) Senior
3 320 (24.30%) Senior Software Engineer
4 231 (17.54%) Embedded Engineer
5 227 (17.24%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 216 (16.40%) Developer
7 100 (7.59%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 98 (7.44%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 86 (6.53%) Lead
10 81 (6.15%) C++ Software Engineer
11 69 (5.24%) 3D Developer
11 69 (5.24%) Games Developer
11 69 (5.24%) Unity 3D Developer
12 59 (4.48%) Senior Developer
13 55 (4.18%) Software Developer
14 54 (4.10%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 53 (4.02%) Lead Software Engineer
16 44 (3.34%) Java Engineer
17 38 (2.89%) Embedded C++ Engineer
17 38 (2.89%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (12.98%) .NET
2 170 (12.91%) React
3 99 (7.52%) AngularJS
4 77 (5.85%) Node.js
5 75 (5.69%) .NET Core
6 72 (5.47%) CSS
7 69 (5.24%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 67 (5.09%) Spring
9 62 (4.71%) Spring Boot
10 54 (4.10%) REST
11 53 (4.02%) HTML
12 49 (3.72%) Vue
13 45 (3.42%) .NET Framework
14 31 (2.35%) Swagger
15 30 (2.28%) ASP.NET
16 29 (2.20%) RESTful
17 28 (2.13%) Kafka
17 28 (2.13%) Laravel
18 27 (2.05%) Leaflet
18 27 (2.05%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 69 (5.24%) Virtual Reality
2 59 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 34 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
5 31 (2.35%) Mobile App
6 26 (1.97%) Algorithms
7 23 (1.75%) IoT
8 21 (1.59%) GNSS
8 21 (1.59%) Product Ownership
9 20 (1.52%) Private Cloud
10 17 (1.29%) Robotics
11 15 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
13 12 (0.91%) FPGA
14 11 (0.84%) Cyberattack
14 11 (0.84%) Driving Licence
15 10 (0.76%) Device Driver
15 10 (0.76%) Hackathon
15 10 (0.76%) PMI
16 9 (0.68%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 219 (16.63%) Linux
2 115 (8.73%) Windows
3 64 (4.86%) Embedded Linux
4 33 (2.51%) Ubuntu
5 24 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.67%) Android
7 20 (1.52%) Debian
8 18 (1.37%) CentOS
8 18 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.68%) Unix
10 5 (0.38%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.23%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 2 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.076%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.076%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (26.88%) Agile
2 215 (16.32%) DevOps
3 188 (14.27%) Scrum
4 184 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (8.88%) CI/CD
6 114 (8.66%) UML
7 105 (7.97%) Full Stack Development
8 103 (7.82%) Design Patterns
9 102 (7.74%) SDLC
10 94 (7.14%) Microservices
11 88 (6.68%) Computer Science
11 88 (6.68%) Cybersecurity
12 78 (5.92%) Actionable Insight
13 72 (5.47%) Mentoring
14 69 (5.24%) Use Case
15 65 (4.94%) Web Development
16 63 (4.78%) Continuous Integration
17 61 (4.63%) Open Source
18 59 (4.48%) Containerisation
19 58 (4.40%) OO
Programming Languages
1 336 (25.51%) Python
2 272 (20.65%) C#
3 267 (20.27%) Java
4 239 (18.15%) JavaScript
5 216 (16.40%) C++
6 192 (14.58%) C
7 88 (6.68%) TypeScript
8 87 (6.61%) Bash
9 84 (6.38%) SQL
10 64 (4.86%) Embedded C
10 64 (4.86%) Rust
11 39 (2.96%) Ada
11 39 (2.96%) PHP
12 27 (2.05%) MATLAB
13 20 (1.52%) Perl
14 17 (1.29%) Go
15 16 (1.21%) Shell Script
15 16 (1.21%) T-SQL
16 10 (0.76%) Swift
17 8 (0.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 389 (29.54%) Security Cleared
2 237 (18.00%) Degree
3 187 (14.20%) SC Cleared
4 108 (8.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 99 (7.52%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.06%) ISTQB
8 10 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.53%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.15%) HND
12 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (1.52%) QA
2 19 (1.44%) Def Stans
3 18 (1.37%) IEC 61508
4 12 (0.91%) PMO
5 10 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 7 (0.53%) MISRA
7 6 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.46%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.46%) TickIT
8 4 (0.30%) MISRA C
9 3 (0.23%) DO-254
10 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.076%) AQAP
11 1 (0.076%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.076%) SEPA
11 1 (0.076%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (6.53%) Docker
2 23 (1.75%) Firmware
3 17 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.30%) NFS
5 4 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 92 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 49 (3.72%) Terraform
3 44 (3.34%) Ansible
4 18 (1.37%) Puppet
5 11 (0.84%) Grafana
6 9 (0.68%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (0.38%) Functional Safety
7 5 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.30%) Nagios
Vendors
1 139 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.13%) ESRI
3 27 (2.05%) Xamarin
4 26 (1.97%) Google
5 21 (1.59%) Red Hat
6 18 (1.37%) SaltStack
7 16 (1.21%) Oracle
8 12 (0.91%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.61%) SAP
10 6 (0.46%) Twitter
11 5 (0.38%) VMware
12 4 (0.30%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.30%) Teradata
13 3 (0.23%) Cognizant
13 3 (0.23%) Coverity
13 3 (0.23%) Samsung
13 3 (0.23%) SmartStream
14 2 (0.15%) IBM
14 2 (0.15%) Xilinx
14 2 (0.15%) Zoho