Software Developer Jobs in Devon

Software Developer
South West > Devon

The median Software Developer salary in Devon is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 52 35
Rank change year-on-year +20 -17 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 48 19 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 5.76% 3.18% 6.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.11% 3.76% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 38 17 21
10th Percentile - £30,932 £17,275
25th Percentile £36,365 £35,500 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £57,813 £50,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £76,500 £59,000 £61,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Devon

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Devon. 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 Devon with a recognized job title 785 505 538
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 84.45% 91.81%
Number of salaries quoted 613 380 333
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,738 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,824 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,838
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -12.74% +22.23%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,829 £75,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Devon

Software Developer
Salary Trend in Devon

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in Devon.

Salary trend for Software Developer in Devon

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Devon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in Devon over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in Devon

Software Developer
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Devon region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Exeter +17 27 £40,000 -11.11% 7
Plymouth -2 8 £80,000 +100.00% 1
Torquay - 2 £47,500 -
Newton Abbot - 1 £50,000 -
Okehampton - 1 £47,500 -
Software Developer
South West

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Software Developer 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 Devon region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 18 (37.50%) SQL
2 16 (33.33%) Agile
3 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 12 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 12 (25.00%) PowerApps
4 12 (25.00%) Fire and Rescue
4 12 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (25.00%) DevOps
4 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 12 (25.00%) Java
5 11 (22.92%) JavaScript
5 11 (22.92%) .NET
5 11 (22.92%) Service Delivery
5 11 (22.92%) Manual Testing
5 11 (22.92%) Data Architecture
5 11 (22.92%) User Experience
6 10 (20.83%) MVC
6 10 (20.83%) C#
7 6 (12.50%) .NET Framework
7 6 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
8 5 (10.42%) SaaS
8 5 (10.42%) Entity Framework
8 5 (10.42%) VB.NET
9 4 (8.33%) HTML
9 4 (8.33%) PHP
9 4 (8.33%) MySQL
9 4 (8.33%) AWS
9 4 (8.33%) Degree
9 4 (8.33%) Web Development
9 4 (8.33%) Android

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 12 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 12 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 5 (10.42%) SaaS
3 4 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (4.17%) Azure
5 1 (2.08%) Azure App Service
5 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.08%) Firebase
5 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) MySQL
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) webpack
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (4.17%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.17%) Aviation
3 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.08%) Marketing
4 1 (2.08%) Retail
4 1 (2.08%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) .NET
2 6 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 5 (10.42%) Entity Framework
4 4 (8.33%) .NET Core
4 4 (8.33%) Blazor
4 4 (8.33%) HTML
4 4 (8.33%) React
5 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.25%) ASP.NET
5 3 (6.25%) CSS
5 3 (6.25%) Laravel
5 3 (6.25%) Node.js
5 3 (6.25%) Symfony
5 3 (6.25%) Vue
6 2 (4.17%) WCF
7 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.08%) WPF
7 1 (2.08%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.08%) Blog
2 1 (2.08%) Digital Media
2 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Android
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) Agile
2 12 (25.00%) DevOps
3 11 (22.92%) Data Architecture
3 11 (22.92%) Manual Testing
3 11 (22.92%) Service Delivery
3 11 (22.92%) User Experience
4 10 (20.83%) MVC
5 6 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (8.33%) Web Development
7 3 (6.25%) Coaching
7 3 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (6.25%) Domain-Driven Design
7 3 (6.25%) Mentoring
7 3 (6.25%) Refactoring
7 3 (6.25%) Requirements Analysis
7 3 (6.25%) Scrum
7 3 (6.25%) SOLID
7 3 (6.25%) TDD
7 3 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) SQL
2 12 (25.00%) Java
3 11 (22.92%) JavaScript
4 10 (20.83%) C#
5 5 (10.42%) VB.NET
6 4 (8.33%) PHP
7 3 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 3 (6.25%) T-SQL
7 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Microsoft