Software Engineer Jobs in Devon

Software Engineer
South West > Devon

The median Software Engineer 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 33 58 26
Rank change year-on-year +25 -32 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 47 13 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 5.64% 2.17% 8.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.99% 2.57% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 37 12 23
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,235 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,090 £27,434 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £36,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -19.44% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £48,750 £48,750
90th Percentile - £60,600 £60,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Devon

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Devon

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Devon

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Devon

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Devon

Software Engineer
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 Engineer 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
Plymouth -2 13 £40,000 +23.08% 7
Paignton - 10 - - 2
Okehampton - 9 £30,000 -
Barnstaple - 4 £65,000 - 1
Exeter +5 2 £48,218 +29.75% 7
Software Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 Devon region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (34.04%) Linux
3 12 (25.53%) Python
4 11 (23.40%) .NET
5 10 (21.28%) SQL Server
5 10 (21.28%) Visual Studio
5 10 (21.28%) C#
5 10 (21.28%) C++
5 10 (21.28%) Perl
5 10 (21.28%) SQL
5 10 (21.28%) OO
5 10 (21.28%) B2B
5 10 (21.28%) Configuration Management
5 10 (21.28%) Project Management
5 10 (21.28%) Validation
5 10 (21.28%) Requirements Analysis
5 10 (21.28%) Marketing
5 10 (21.28%) Degree
5 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
5 10 (21.28%) Multithreading
5 10 (21.28%) Product Marketing
5 10 (21.28%) Digital Signal Processing
5 10 (21.28%) Signal Processing
5 10 (21.28%) Bash
5 10 (21.28%) SDLC
5 10 (21.28%) Defect Tracking
5 10 (21.28%) .NET Core
5 10 (21.28%) PMO
5 10 (21.28%) Creative Thinking
5 10 (21.28%) Innovative Thinking

Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (4.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) 5G
1 2 (4.26%) Ethernet
1 2 (4.26%) RS-232
1 2 (4.26%) SD-WAN
1 2 (4.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Visual Studio
2 8 (17.02%) Git
3 6 (12.77%) Bitbucket
3 6 (12.77%) Postman
3 6 (12.77%) Subversion
4 3 (6.38%) Jasmine
4 3 (6.38%) Mocha
5 2 (4.26%) JIRA
General
1 10 (21.28%) Marketing
2 6 (12.77%) Retail
3 5 (10.64%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.26%) Finance
5 2 (4.26%) Legal
5 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) .NET
2 10 (21.28%) .NET Core
3 6 (12.77%) .NET Framework
3 6 (12.77%) AngularJS
3 6 (12.77%) ASP.NET
3 6 (12.77%) ASP.NET MVC
3 6 (12.77%) ASP.NET Web API
3 6 (12.77%) CSS
3 6 (12.77%) Entity Framework
3 6 (12.77%) jQuery
3 6 (12.77%) React
3 6 (12.77%) Sass
3 6 (12.77%) Swagger
4 3 (6.38%) Chai
4 3 (6.38%) Jest
4 3 (6.38%) REST
4 3 (6.38%) Vue
5 1 (2.13%) Laravel
5 1 (2.13%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) GNSS
2 8 (17.02%) Robotics
3 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (21.28%) B2B
2 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
2 10 (21.28%) Configuration Management
2 10 (21.28%) Creative Thinking
2 10 (21.28%) Defect Tracking
2 10 (21.28%) Digital Signal Processing
2 10 (21.28%) Innovative Thinking
2 10 (21.28%) Multithreading
2 10 (21.28%) OO
2 10 (21.28%) Product Marketing
2 10 (21.28%) Project Management
2 10 (21.28%) Requirements Analysis
2 10 (21.28%) SDLC
2 10 (21.28%) Signal Processing
2 10 (21.28%) Validation
3 6 (12.77%) Front End Development
3 6 (12.77%) MVC
3 6 (12.77%) Visualisation
4 4 (8.51%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.53%) Python
2 10 (21.28%) Bash
2 10 (21.28%) C#
2 10 (21.28%) C++
2 10 (21.28%) Perl
2 10 (21.28%) SQL
3 9 (19.15%) TypeScript
4 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.77%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.26%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) PMO
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft