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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 20 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,280 724 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.11% 10.78% 16.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.09% 11.39% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 968 411 734
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 £68,750 £77,715 £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 7,953 6,358 8,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.43% 94.64% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5,709 3,497 5,044
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,538
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,750 £37,908
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% +8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £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 29 May 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 29 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 +8 456 £57,500 -12.01% 99
Gloucestershire +10 321 £55,000 -13.73% 35
Dorset +25 209 £57,500 +15.00% 31
Wiltshire +15 124 £55,000 -21.43% 13
Devon +27 87 £45,000 - 26
Somerset +2 48 £55,000 -1.96% 23
Cornwall -7 8 £80,000 +190.91% 1
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 81 (6.33%) Confluence
2 28 (2.19%) Apache
3 27 (2.11%) ArcGIS
3 27 (2.11%) GeoServer
4 21 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.31%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.078%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (1.48%) Simulink
2 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.16%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 1 (0.078%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 233 (18.20%) AWS
2 184 (14.38%) Azure
3 43 (3.36%) GCP
4 41 (3.20%) Serverless
5 31 (2.42%) OpenShift
6 29 (2.27%) SaaS
7 26 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (0.94%) npm
10 11 (0.86%) GitHub
11 9 (0.70%) Amazon S3
11 9 (0.70%) Power Platform
12 8 (0.63%) Azure Functions
12 8 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.39%) Azure Storage
15 4 (0.31%) Azure Pipelines
15 4 (0.31%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.80%) AMQP
2 13 (1.02%) Internet
3 10 (0.78%) HTTP
3 10 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (0.63%) Bluetooth
4 8 (0.63%) DNS
4 8 (0.63%) SMTP
4 8 (0.63%) Wireless
5 6 (0.47%) Network Security
6 5 (0.39%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.39%) RS-232
7 4 (0.31%) ZigBee
8 2 (0.16%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.16%) 5G
9 1 (0.078%) OFDM
9 1 (0.078%) PPP
9 1 (0.078%) RS-422
9 1 (0.078%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.078%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 32 (2.50%) MySQL
4 29 (2.27%) Big Data
4 29 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 27 (2.11%) GIS
5 27 (2.11%) QGIS
6 22 (1.72%) Hadoop
7 17 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
8 11 (0.86%) SQLite
9 9 (0.70%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.63%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.47%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.47%) Power BI
12 5 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.39%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.31%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 173 (13.52%) Git
2 116 (9.06%) Visual Studio
3 99 (7.73%) JIRA
4 83 (6.48%) Bitbucket
5 59 (4.61%) Sourcetree
6 46 (3.59%) Jenkins
7 25 (1.95%) Subversion
8 24 (1.88%) GitLab
8 24 (1.88%) LabVIEW
9 18 (1.41%) Rational Rhapsody
10 11 (0.86%) Eclipse
11 9 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.70%) Storybook
12 8 (0.63%) NetBeans
12 8 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
13 7 (0.55%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
13 7 (0.55%) Selenium
14 6 (0.47%) NUnit
14 6 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 139 (10.86%) Social Skills
2 106 (8.28%) Finance
3 84 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
4 82 (6.41%) Aerospace
5 76 (5.94%) Games
6 69 (5.39%) Manufacturing
7 66 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (3.44%) Electronics
8 44 (3.44%) Retail
9 40 (3.13%) Marketing
10 39 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (2.66%) Banking
12 33 (2.58%) Automotive
13 28 (2.19%) Aviation
14 24 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.48%) Public Sector
16 16 (1.25%) Military
17 15 (1.17%) Law
18 14 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 14 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 912 (71.25%) Software Engineer
2 394 (30.78%) Senior
3 309 (24.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 224 (17.50%) Developer
5 220 (17.19%) Embedded Engineer
6 216 (16.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 94 (7.34%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 92 (7.19%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 81 (6.33%) Lead
10 79 (6.17%) C++ Software Engineer
11 73 (5.70%) 3D Developer
11 73 (5.70%) Games Developer
11 73 (5.70%) Unity 3D Developer
12 59 (4.61%) Senior Developer
13 57 (4.45%) Software Developer
14 53 (4.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 49 (3.83%) Lead Software Engineer
16 42 (3.28%) Java Engineer
17 38 (2.97%) Embedded C++ Engineer
17 38 (2.97%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (13.36%) .NET
2 170 (13.28%) React
3 98 (7.66%) AngularJS
4 77 (6.02%) Node.js
5 75 (5.86%) .NET Core
6 73 (5.70%) CSS
6 73 (5.70%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 65 (5.08%) Spring
8 60 (4.69%) Spring Boot
9 53 (4.14%) REST
10 52 (4.06%) HTML
11 49 (3.83%) Vue
12 45 (3.52%) .NET Framework
13 30 (2.34%) ASP.NET
13 30 (2.34%) Swagger
14 29 (2.27%) Laravel
15 28 (2.19%) Kafka
15 28 (2.19%) RESTful
16 27 (2.11%) Leaflet
16 27 (2.11%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 73 (5.70%) Virtual Reality
2 59 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
3 41 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 34 (2.66%) Embedded Systems
5 31 (2.42%) Mobile App
6 26 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 23 (1.80%) IoT
8 21 (1.64%) GNSS
8 21 (1.64%) Private Cloud
8 21 (1.64%) Product Ownership
9 17 (1.33%) Robotics
10 15 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
12 12 (0.94%) FPGA
13 11 (0.86%) Driving Licence
14 10 (0.78%) Device Driver
14 10 (0.78%) Hackathon
15 9 (0.70%) Client/Server
15 9 (0.70%) PMI
16 8 (0.63%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 217 (16.95%) Linux
2 114 (8.91%) Windows
3 64 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
4 32 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 24 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.72%) Android
7 19 (1.48%) Debian
8 17 (1.33%) CentOS
8 17 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.70%) Unix
10 5 (0.39%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.23%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 2 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.078%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.078%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (26.88%) Agile
2 215 (16.80%) DevOps
3 191 (14.92%) Scrum
4 177 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
5 118 (9.22%) CI/CD
5 118 (9.22%) UML
6 108 (8.44%) Design Patterns
7 105 (8.20%) Full Stack Development
8 99 (7.73%) SDLC
9 92 (7.19%) Microservices
10 88 (6.88%) Computer Science
11 86 (6.72%) Cybersecurity
12 79 (6.17%) Actionable Insight
13 73 (5.70%) Use Case
14 66 (5.16%) Web Development
15 64 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
16 62 (4.84%) Mentoring
16 62 (4.84%) Open Source
17 59 (4.61%) Containerisation
17 59 (4.61%) OO
Programming Languages
1 327 (25.55%) Python
2 276 (21.56%) C#
3 265 (20.70%) Java
4 237 (18.52%) JavaScript
5 212 (16.56%) C++
6 191 (14.92%) C
7 87 (6.80%) Bash
7 87 (6.80%) TypeScript
8 84 (6.56%) SQL
9 64 (5.00%) Embedded C
9 64 (5.00%) Rust
10 40 (3.13%) Ada
10 40 (3.13%) PHP
11 26 (2.03%) MATLAB
12 20 (1.56%) Perl
13 18 (1.41%) Go
14 16 (1.25%) Shell Script
14 16 (1.25%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.78%) Swift
16 8 (0.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 392 (30.63%) Security Cleared
2 240 (18.75%) Degree
3 189 (14.77%) SC Cleared
4 112 (8.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 97 (7.58%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.09%) ISTQB
8 9 (0.70%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.55%) 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 (0.16%) HND
12 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (1.64%) QA
2 17 (1.33%) Def Stans
3 16 (1.25%) IEC 61508
4 14 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 12 (0.94%) PMO
6 7 (0.55%) MISRA
7 6 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.47%) TickIT
8 5 (0.39%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.31%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.16%) DO-254
10 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.078%) AQAP
11 1 (0.078%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.078%) SEPA
11 1 (0.078%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (6.72%) Docker
2 23 (1.80%) Firmware
3 17 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.31%) NFS
5 4 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 90 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 48 (3.75%) Terraform
3 43 (3.36%) Ansible
4 17 (1.33%) Puppet
5 11 (0.86%) Grafana
6 9 (0.70%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.31%) Functional Safety
8 4 (0.31%) Nagios
Vendors
1 143 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.19%) ESRI
3 27 (2.11%) Xamarin
4 25 (1.95%) Google
5 20 (1.56%) Red Hat
6 17 (1.33%) Oracle
6 17 (1.33%) SaltStack
7 11 (0.86%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.63%) SAP
9 6 (0.47%) Twitter
10 5 (0.39%) VMware
11 4 (0.31%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.31%) Teradata
12 3 (0.23%) Cognizant
12 3 (0.23%) Coverity
12 3 (0.23%) Samsung
12 3 (0.23%) SmartStream
13 2 (0.16%) IBM
13 2 (0.16%) Xilinx
13 2 (0.16%) Zoho