Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the South West

Senior Software Engineer
England > South West

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the South West is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 215 182
Rank change year-on-year +128 -33 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 289 57 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.11% 0.84% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.23% 0.94% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 227 43 58
10th Percentile £49,500 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.88% +10.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £79,125
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 8,934 6,044 7,768
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 89.13% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,537 3,788 5,097
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,175 £29,450
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the South West

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in the South West

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the South West

Senior Software Engineer
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 Senior Software Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 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 +73 106 £65,000 -7.14% 16
Dorset +33 69 £60,000 +12.15% 7
Gloucestershire +22 60 £72,500 +16.00% 8
Devon +13 27 £65,000 -0.76% 4
Wiltshire +8 16 £75,000 +7.14% 3
Somerset +10 8 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Senior Software Engineer
England

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Senior 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 South West region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 289 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 79 (27.34%) Python
3 78 (26.99%) C++
4 71 (24.57%) Security Cleared
5 62 (21.45%) JavaScript
6 60 (20.76%) Linux
7 52 (17.99%) C
7 52 (17.99%) Agile
8 48 (16.61%) React
9 46 (15.92%) AWS
10 41 (14.19%) Cybersecurity
10 41 (14.19%) DevOps
10 41 (14.19%) CI/CD
11 39 (13.49%) Degree
11 39 (13.49%) Java
12 38 (13.15%) Azure
12 38 (13.15%) Bash
13 35 (12.11%) .NET
13 35 (12.11%) Embedded Linux
14 34 (11.76%) C#
14 34 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (11.42%) AngularJS
16 31 (10.73%) Computer Science
17 29 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
18 28 (9.69%) CSS
18 28 (9.69%) .NET Core
19 27 (9.34%) Scrum
19 27 (9.34%) Embedded C
19 27 (9.34%) Git
20 26 (9.00%) Web Development

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
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 17 (5.88%) ArcGIS
1 17 (5.88%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.35%) CMS
2 1 (0.35%) JBoss
2 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 46 (15.92%) AWS
2 38 (13.15%) Azure
3 13 (4.50%) SaaS
4 10 (3.46%) GCP
4 10 (3.46%) Serverless
5 9 (3.11%) npm
6 8 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.77%) Azure Functions
7 5 (1.73%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.88%) GIS
2 17 (5.88%) QGIS
3 11 (3.81%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.77%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.04%) MySQL
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.35%) Big Data
8 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.35%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (9.34%) Git
2 14 (4.84%) Visual Studio
3 11 (3.81%) Subversion
4 9 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.11%) Storybook
5 7 (2.42%) JIRA
6 6 (2.08%) GitLab
7 5 (1.73%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.73%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.73%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.73%) Selenium
8 4 (1.38%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.38%) Postman
9 2 (0.69%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.35%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.35%) JUnit
10 1 (0.35%) Maven
10 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (8.65%) Social Skills
2 24 (8.30%) Aviation
3 21 (7.27%) Finance
4 20 (6.92%) Manufacturing
5 18 (6.23%) Automotive
6 12 (4.15%) Marketing
7 11 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.11%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.38%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.38%) Military
10 3 (1.04%) Advertising
10 3 (1.04%) Banking
10 3 (1.04%) Electronics
10 3 (1.04%) Legal
10 3 (1.04%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.69%) Avionics
11 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Retail
12 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.61%) React
2 35 (12.11%) .NET
3 33 (11.42%) AngularJS
4 28 (9.69%) .NET Core
4 28 (9.69%) CSS
5 25 (8.65%) Node.js
6 17 (5.88%) Leaflet
6 17 (5.88%) OpenLayers
6 17 (5.88%) PostGIS
7 16 (5.54%) .NET Framework
8 13 (4.50%) Sass
9 12 (4.15%) ASP.NET
9 12 (4.15%) ASP.NET Web API
9 12 (4.15%) Entity Framework
9 12 (4.15%) Qt
10 9 (3.11%) Yocto
11 8 (2.77%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (2.77%) Lambda Expressions
11 8 (2.77%) Swagger
11 8 (2.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (3.81%) GNSS
3 9 (3.11%) Device Driver
3 9 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.77%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.77%) Hackathon
5 7 (2.42%) FPGA
6 5 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.73%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.04%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.69%) Acoustics
8 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.35%) Digital Currency
9 1 (0.35%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.35%) IoT
9 1 (0.35%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.35%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.76%) Linux
2 35 (12.11%) Embedded Linux
3 19 (6.57%) Windows
4 5 (1.73%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.38%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.04%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 52 (17.99%) Agile
3 41 (14.19%) CI/CD
3 41 (14.19%) Cybersecurity
3 41 (14.19%) DevOps
4 34 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (10.73%) Computer Science
6 27 (9.34%) Scrum
7 26 (9.00%) Web Development
8 24 (8.30%) Actionable Insight
9 23 (7.96%) Multithreading
9 23 (7.96%) Unit Testing
10 22 (7.61%) Validation
11 20 (6.92%) SDLC
12 18 (6.23%) Fintech
12 18 (6.23%) Mentoring
12 18 (6.23%) Roadmaps
13 17 (5.88%) Code Quality
13 17 (5.88%) Defect Tracking
14 16 (5.54%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 79 (27.34%) Python
2 78 (26.99%) C++
3 62 (21.45%) JavaScript
4 52 (17.99%) C
5 39 (13.49%) Java
6 38 (13.15%) Bash
7 34 (11.76%) C#
8 27 (9.34%) Embedded C
9 26 (9.00%) Rust
10 22 (7.61%) TypeScript
11 11 (3.81%) Perl
11 11 (3.81%) SQL
12 5 (1.73%) Go
13 4 (1.38%) Ada
13 4 (1.38%) Swift
13 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.04%) PHP
15 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (24.57%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.49%) Degree
3 25 (8.65%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.69%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.81%) PMO
2 2 (0.69%) Def Stans
2 2 (0.69%) IEC 61508
2 2 (0.69%) QA
3 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (6.57%) Docker
2 9 (3.11%) Firmware
3 7 (2.42%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.42%) Terraform
3 2 (0.69%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 17 (5.88%) ESRI
2 12 (4.15%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.08%) Google
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle
5 1 (0.35%) SAP
5 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.35%) Xamarin