Developer/Software Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Software Engineer/Developer
South West > Bristol

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in Bristol is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 162 196
Rank change year-on-year +19 +34 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 19 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.60% 0.077% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.083% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 19 0 2
10th Percentile £40,000 - £44,625
25th Percentile £70,097 - £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £91,934 - £70,938
90th Percentile - - £74,875
South West median annual salary £72,500 £56,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.89% +2.27% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 3,051 2,397 3,270
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.10% 92.62% 97.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,289 1,500 2,181
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,537 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,655 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% +8.55% +13.48%
75th Percentile £70,250 £74,250 £73,675
90th Percentile £86,500 £87,427 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured Developer/Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in Bristol

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in Bristol.

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in Bristol

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in Bristol

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Developer/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 Bristol region featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (84.21%) Software Engineering
2 12 (63.16%) Agile
2 12 (63.16%) Java
3 9 (47.37%) Mentoring
4 8 (42.11%) React
4 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 8 (42.11%) AWS
4 8 (42.11%) MVVM
4 8 (42.11%) Apple iOS
5 7 (36.84%) Spring
5 7 (36.84%) Design Patterns
5 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
5 7 (36.84%) Microservices
6 6 (31.58%) iOS Development
6 6 (31.58%) Swift
6 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
6 6 (31.58%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (31.58%) Code Quality
6 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (31.58%) Banking
6 6 (31.58%) Finance
6 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
6 6 (31.58%) Software Architecture
6 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 6 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (26.32%) Git
7 5 (26.32%) B2C
7 5 (26.32%) Maven
7 5 (26.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (26.32%) Innovative Thinking

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) OpenShift
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) npm
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Big Data
2 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
1 5 (26.32%) Maven
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (31.58%) Banking
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Retail
2 4 (21.05%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) React
2 7 (36.84%) Spring
2 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
3 4 (21.05%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (21.05%) AngularJS
3 4 (21.05%) Kafka
3 4 (21.05%) Node.js
3 4 (21.05%) RESTful
4 3 (15.79%) CSS
4 3 (15.79%) HTML
4 3 (15.79%) OpenAPI
4 3 (15.79%) REST
4 3 (15.79%) Swagger
5 2 (10.53%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (10.53%) CSS3
5 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
5 2 (10.53%) HTML5
5 2 (10.53%) SwiftUI
5 2 (10.53%) UIKit
5 2 (10.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Apple iOS
2 4 (21.05%) Android
3 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Software Engineering
2 12 (63.16%) Agile
3 9 (47.37%) Mentoring
4 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 8 (42.11%) MVVM
5 7 (36.84%) Design Patterns
5 7 (36.84%) Microservices
6 6 (31.58%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (31.58%) Code Quality
6 6 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (31.58%) iOS Development
6 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (31.58%) Software Architecture
6 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
7 5 (26.32%) B2C
7 5 (26.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (26.32%) Innovative Thinking
7 5 (26.32%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (26.32%) Secure Coding
8 4 (21.05%) Concurrent Programming
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
2 6 (31.58%) Swift
3 4 (21.05%) Kotlin
4 2 (10.53%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) Rust
4 2 (10.53%) SQL
5 1 (5.26%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft