Software Engineer Jobs in Portsmouth

Software Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Software Engineer salary in Portsmouth is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 56 62
Rank change year-on-year +36 +6 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 39 15 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 7.80% 3.27% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.32% 3.54% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 34 11 9
10th Percentile £45,000 - £37,000
25th Percentile £48,813 £48,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,125 £62,500
90th Percentile - £68,750 £81,250
Hampshire median annual salary £54,250 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.58% +20.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 469 424 619
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 92.37% 98.25%
Number of salaries quoted 401 312 509
10th Percentile £24,500 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,875 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £87,500
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £51,125 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.20% -2.62% +10.53%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Portsmouth

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Portsmouth

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Portsmouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Portsmouth

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Portsmouth region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (74.36%) Degree
2 29 (74.36%) Computer Science
3 26 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (58.97%) C++
5 22 (56.41%) Military
6 21 (53.85%) Agile
6 21 (53.85%) Security Cleared
7 19 (48.72%) Configuration Management
8 18 (46.15%) Mathematics
8 18 (46.15%) Qt
8 18 (46.15%) Algorithms
9 17 (43.59%) CMake
9 17 (43.59%) Mentoring
9 17 (43.59%) SC Cleared
9 17 (43.59%) Subversion
9 17 (43.59%) MFC
9 17 (43.59%) STL
9 17 (43.59%) XML
9 17 (43.59%) Windows
9 17 (43.59%) Linux
9 17 (43.59%) OO
9 17 (43.59%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (15.38%) Docker
10 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
10 6 (15.38%) C
10 6 (15.38%) C#
10 6 (15.38%) Go
10 6 (15.38%) SaaS
10 6 (15.38%) GCP

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 6 (15.38%) GCP
1 6 (15.38%) SaaS
2 5 (12.82%) AWS
2 5 (12.82%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Network Security
1 1 (2.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) MySQL
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (43.59%) CMake
1 17 (43.59%) Subversion
2 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (56.41%) Military
2 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (46.15%) Qt
2 17 (43.59%) MFC
2 17 (43.59%) STL
2 17 (43.59%) XML
3 5 (12.82%) .NET
4 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.13%) Blazor
4 2 (5.13%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 18 (46.15%) Algorithms
2 6 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (43.59%) Linux
1 17 (43.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (74.36%) Computer Science
3 21 (53.85%) Agile
4 19 (48.72%) Configuration Management
5 18 (46.15%) Mathematics
6 17 (43.59%) Mentoring
6 17 (43.59%) OO
6 17 (43.59%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 5 (12.82%) Load Balancing
8 5 (12.82%) Microservices
8 5 (12.82%) Open Source
8 5 (12.82%) Open Source Development
9 3 (7.69%) Test Automation
9 3 (7.69%) Web Development
10 2 (5.13%) SysML
10 2 (5.13%) UML
11 1 (2.56%) OOP
11 1 (2.56%) SDLC
11 1 (2.56%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) C++
2 6 (15.38%) C
2 6 (15.38%) C#
2 6 (15.38%) Go
3 5 (12.82%) Java
3 5 (12.82%) PHP
4 3 (7.69%) Python
4 3 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (2.56%) Ada
5 1 (2.56%) Bash
5 1 (2.56%) Embedded C
5 1 (2.56%) Embedded C++
5 1 (2.56%) Groovy
5 1 (2.56%) Perl
5 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.56%) Ruby
5 1 (2.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (74.36%) Degree
2 26 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (53.85%) Security Cleared
4 17 (43.59%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.13%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 1 (2.56%) MISRA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Google
2 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) Parasoft
45 Software Engineer jobs in Hampshire