Software Engineer Jobs in the South West

Software Engineer
England > South West

The median Software Engineer salary in the South West is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 53 27
Rank change year-on-year +38 -26 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 908 348 771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.35% 5.18% 9.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.72% 5.82% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 682 168 339
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% +18.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 9,341 5,981 8,099
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.17% 89.03% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 6,857 3,682 5,184
10th Percentile £27,978 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bristol +40 330 £56,250 -11.76% 66
Gloucestershire +9 207 £62,500 - 29
Dorset +28 154 £57,500 +15.00% 22
Wiltshire +25 91 £55,000 - 10
Devon +43 67 £45,000 +16.13% 9
Somerset +27 38 £50,000 -20.00% 14
Cornwall -5 5 £80,000 +88.24%
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 903 (99.45%) Software Engineering
2 255 (28.08%) Security Cleared
3 253 (27.86%) Python
4 224 (24.67%) Agile
5 192 (21.15%) JavaScript
6 184 (20.26%) Java
7 180 (19.82%) C++
8 170 (18.72%) Linux
9 166 (18.28%) AWS
10 156 (17.18%) C
11 134 (14.76%) Azure
12 133 (14.65%) C#
13 125 (13.77%) React
14 104 (11.45%) .NET
15 102 (11.23%) Degree
16 93 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
17 91 (10.02%) DevOps
18 83 (9.14%) DV Cleared
19 80 (8.81%) AngularJS
20 77 (8.48%) Aerospace
20 77 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
20 77 (8.48%) Actionable Insight
21 76 (8.37%) Bash
22 74 (8.15%) Scrum
23 73 (8.04%) SC Cleared
24 71 (7.82%) Microservices
25 70 (7.71%) Git
26 69 (7.60%) Windows
27 66 (7.27%) SDLC
28 64 (7.05%) Node.js

Software Engineer Skill Set
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 28 (3.08%) Apache
2 27 (2.97%) ArcGIS
2 27 (2.97%) GeoServer
3 17 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.22%) CMS
4 2 (0.22%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (1.43%) Simulink
2 2 (0.22%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 166 (18.28%) AWS
2 134 (14.76%) Azure
3 34 (3.74%) Serverless
4 33 (3.63%) GCP
5 26 (2.86%) OpenShift
6 19 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (1.54%) npm
8 14 (1.54%) SaaS
9 12 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (0.88%) Azure Functions
10 8 (0.88%) GitHub
11 5 (0.55%) Azure Storage
12 4 (0.44%) OCI
13 3 (0.33%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.33%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.33%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.98%) AMQP
2 8 (0.88%) Wireless
3 5 (0.55%) Bluetooth
3 5 (0.55%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.55%) RS-232
4 2 (0.22%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.22%) 5G
4 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) Internet
5 1 (0.11%) OFDM
5 1 (0.11%) RS-422
5 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.11%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.11%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (4.19%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.97%) GIS
3 27 (2.97%) QGIS
4 22 (2.42%) Big Data
5 20 (2.20%) MySQL
6 18 (1.98%) Hadoop
7 17 (1.87%) Cloudera CDH
8 16 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.88%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.44%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.22%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.22%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.22%) Redis
13 2 (0.22%) SQLite
14 1 (0.11%) Apache Accumulo
14 1 (0.11%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 70 (7.71%) Git
2 36 (3.96%) Visual Studio
3 24 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.98%) LabVIEW
5 13 (1.43%) Subversion
6 12 (1.32%) JIRA
6 12 (1.32%) Rational Rhapsody
7 9 (0.99%) GitLab
7 9 (0.99%) Storybook
8 8 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.88%) NetBeans
9 7 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.77%) Maven
10 6 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.66%) Postman
10 6 (0.66%) Selenium
11 5 (0.55%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.55%) MSTest
11 5 (0.55%) NUnit
12 4 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
General
1 77 (8.48%) Aerospace
2 62 (6.83%) Social Skills
3 58 (6.39%) Manufacturing
4 49 (5.40%) Finance
5 35 (3.85%) Retail
6 33 (3.63%) Automotive
7 25 (2.75%) Aviation
8 24 (2.64%) Marketing
9 22 (2.42%) Electronics
10 19 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
12 16 (1.76%) Military
13 13 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.32%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.10%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.99%) Banking
16 9 (0.99%) Public Sector
16 9 (0.99%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.66%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (13.77%) React
2 104 (11.45%) .NET
3 80 (8.81%) AngularJS
4 64 (7.05%) Node.js
5 59 (6.50%) .NET Core
6 57 (6.28%) CSS
7 50 (5.51%) Spring Boot
8 48 (5.29%) Spring
9 39 (4.30%) REST
10 34 (3.74%) .NET Framework
11 32 (3.52%) Swagger
12 29 (3.19%) Vue
13 27 (2.97%) HTML
13 27 (2.97%) Leaflet
13 27 (2.97%) OpenLayers
13 27 (2.97%) PostGIS
14 26 (2.86%) OpenAPI
15 23 (2.53%) Qt
16 21 (2.31%) STL
17 20 (2.20%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (2.75%) Cloud Native
2 25 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
3 17 (1.87%) Product Ownership
4 14 (1.54%) Mobile App
5 12 (1.32%) GNSS
5 12 (1.32%) IoT
6 11 (1.21%) Algorithms
6 11 (1.21%) Driving Licence
6 11 (1.21%) FPGA
7 10 (1.10%) Device Driver
7 10 (1.10%) Hackathon
8 9 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
9 8 (0.88%) Robotics
10 6 (0.66%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.55%) Acoustics
11 5 (0.55%) Private Cloud
11 5 (0.55%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 170 (18.72%) Linux
2 69 (7.60%) Windows
3 64 (7.05%) Embedded Linux
4 24 (2.64%) Ubuntu
5 19 (2.09%) Debian
6 17 (1.87%) CentOS
6 17 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (1.54%) Android
8 13 (1.43%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.33%) Windows Embedded Compact
10 2 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 903 (99.45%) Software Engineering
2 224 (24.67%) Agile
3 93 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (10.02%) DevOps
5 77 (8.48%) Actionable Insight
5 77 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
6 74 (8.15%) Scrum
7 71 (7.82%) Microservices
8 66 (7.27%) SDLC
9 64 (7.05%) CI/CD
10 54 (5.95%) Full Stack Development
11 51 (5.62%) Collaborative Working
12 50 (5.51%) Web Development
13 49 (5.40%) Computer Science
14 48 (5.29%) Configuration Management
15 45 (4.96%) Unit Testing
16 42 (4.63%) OO
17 40 (4.41%) Multithreading
18 39 (4.30%) Containerisation
19 37 (4.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 253 (27.86%) Python
2 192 (21.15%) JavaScript
3 184 (20.26%) Java
4 180 (19.82%) C++
5 156 (17.18%) C
6 133 (14.65%) C#
7 76 (8.37%) Bash
8 60 (6.61%) Embedded C
9 58 (6.39%) Rust
10 54 (5.95%) TypeScript
11 41 (4.52%) SQL
12 34 (3.74%) Ada
13 21 (2.31%) MATLAB
14 19 (2.09%) Perl
15 14 (1.54%) PHP
16 10 (1.10%) Swift
17 9 (0.99%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.88%) Go
19 7 (0.77%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 255 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 102 (11.23%) Degree
3 83 (9.14%) DV Cleared
4 73 (8.04%) SC Cleared
5 36 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.33%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.22%) HND
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.31%) QA
2 12 (1.32%) PMO
3 9 (0.99%) Def Stans
4 7 (0.77%) MISRA
5 6 (0.66%) IEC 61508
6 5 (0.55%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.55%) TickIT
7 4 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.44%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.11%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 42 (4.63%) Docker
2 12 (1.32%) Firmware
3 9 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.08%) Terraform
3 22 (2.42%) Ansible
4 17 (1.87%) Puppet
5 4 (0.44%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.22%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 41 (4.52%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.97%) ESRI
3 23 (2.53%) Google
4 20 (2.20%) Red Hat
5 17 (1.87%) SaltStack
6 9 (0.99%) Oracle
7 8 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.44%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.44%) Xamarin
9 3 (0.33%) Samsung
9 3 (0.33%) SAP
9 3 (0.33%) SmartStream
10 2 (0.22%) Cognizant
10 2 (0.22%) Keysight
10 2 (0.22%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.22%) Zoho
11 1 (0.11%) Netlify
11 1 (0.11%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.11%) Veracode
11 1 (0.11%) VMware