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 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 210 190
Rank change year-on-year +125 -20 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 275 68 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.02% 0.96% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.14% 1.07% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 217 49 55
10th Percentile £49,000 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £79,500
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 8,760 6,334 7,632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.12% 89.34% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,432 3,910 5,108
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,918 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% +3.84% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +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 24 April 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 24 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
Bristol +76 103 £65,000 -7.14% 18
Dorset +37 65 £60,000 -25.00% 5
Gloucestershire +24 59 £72,500 +13.73% 4
Devon +11 22 £65,000 -0.76% 2
Wiltshire +8 15 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Somerset +6 8 £55,000 -15.38% 1
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 24 April 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.

1 275 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 77 (28.00%) C++
3 76 (27.64%) Python
4 71 (25.82%) Security Cleared
5 60 (21.82%) JavaScript
6 59 (21.45%) Linux
7 53 (19.27%) C
8 51 (18.55%) Agile
9 46 (16.73%) React
10 44 (16.00%) AWS
11 42 (15.27%) Cybersecurity
12 40 (14.55%) CI/CD
13 39 (14.18%) DevOps
13 39 (14.18%) Java
14 37 (13.45%) Azure
15 36 (13.09%) Bash
15 36 (13.09%) Degree
15 36 (13.09%) Embedded Linux
16 34 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (12.00%) .NET
18 32 (11.64%) C#
18 32 (11.64%) AngularJS
19 28 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
19 28 (10.18%) Computer Science
20 27 (9.82%) Embedded C
20 27 (9.82%) CSS
20 27 (9.82%) .NET Core
21 26 (9.45%) Rust
21 26 (9.45%) Git
22 25 (9.09%) SC Cleared

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 (6.18%) ArcGIS
1 17 (6.18%) GeoServer
2 2 (0.73%) JBoss
2 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.36%) CMS
3 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.00%) AWS
2 37 (13.45%) Azure
3 13 (4.73%) SaaS
4 9 (3.27%) GCP
4 9 (3.27%) npm
4 9 (3.27%) Serverless
5 7 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.55%) Azure Functions
6 5 (1.82%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) 5G
1 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.18%) GIS
2 17 (6.18%) QGIS
3 10 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.91%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.09%) MySQL
7 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.36%) Big Data
8 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.36%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (9.45%) Git
2 12 (4.36%) Visual Studio
3 11 (4.00%) Subversion
4 9 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.27%) Storybook
5 7 (2.55%) JIRA
6 6 (2.18%) GitLab
7 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.82%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.82%) Selenium
8 4 (1.45%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.45%) Postman
9 2 (0.73%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.73%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.36%) JUnit
10 1 (0.36%) Maven
10 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (8.73%) Aviation
2 23 (8.36%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.00%) Finance
4 18 (6.55%) Automotive
5 17 (6.18%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.64%) Marketing
8 9 (3.27%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.45%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Military
9 4 (1.45%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.09%) Advertising
10 3 (1.09%) Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Electronics
10 3 (1.09%) Legal
11 2 (0.73%) Avionics
11 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Retail
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.73%) React
2 33 (12.00%) .NET
3 32 (11.64%) AngularJS
4 27 (9.82%) .NET Core
4 27 (9.82%) CSS
5 24 (8.73%) Node.js
6 17 (6.18%) Leaflet
6 17 (6.18%) OpenLayers
6 17 (6.18%) PostGIS
7 15 (5.45%) .NET Framework
8 13 (4.73%) Qt
8 13 (4.73%) Sass
9 11 (4.00%) ASP.NET
9 11 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (4.00%) Entity Framework
10 10 (3.64%) Yocto
11 9 (3.27%) RESTful
12 8 (2.91%) Swagger
13 7 (2.55%) Lambda Expressions
13 7 (2.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.18%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (3.64%) Device Driver
3 9 (3.27%) GNSS
4 8 (2.91%) Hackathon
4 8 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.55%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.55%) FPGA
6 5 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.82%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.73%) Acoustics
8 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.36%) Digital Currency
9 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.36%) IoT
9 1 (0.36%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 59 (21.45%) Linux
2 36 (13.09%) Embedded Linux
3 17 (6.18%) Windows
4 5 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.45%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.09%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 51 (18.55%) Agile
3 42 (15.27%) Cybersecurity
4 40 (14.55%) CI/CD
5 39 (14.18%) DevOps
6 34 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (10.18%) Computer Science
8 25 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
8 25 (9.09%) Scrum
8 25 (9.09%) Web Development
9 22 (8.00%) Unit Testing
10 21 (7.64%) Multithreading
10 21 (7.64%) Validation
11 18 (6.55%) Fintech
11 18 (6.55%) Mentoring
11 18 (6.55%) Roadmaps
12 17 (6.18%) SDLC
13 16 (5.82%) Code Quality
13 16 (5.82%) Full Stack Development
14 15 (5.45%) Defect Tracking
Programming Languages
1 77 (28.00%) C++
2 76 (27.64%) Python
3 60 (21.82%) JavaScript
4 53 (19.27%) C
5 39 (14.18%) Java
6 36 (13.09%) Bash
7 32 (11.64%) C#
8 27 (9.82%) Embedded C
9 26 (9.45%) Rust
10 21 (7.64%) TypeScript
11 11 (4.00%) SQL
12 9 (3.27%) Perl
13 5 (1.82%) Go
14 4 (1.45%) Ada
14 4 (1.45%) Swift
14 4 (1.45%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.73%) PHP
16 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (25.82%) Security Cleared
2 36 (13.09%) Degree
3 25 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.27%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.73%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.27%) PMO
2 2 (0.73%) Def Stans
2 2 (0.73%) IEC 61508
2 2 (0.73%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (6.91%) Docker
2 9 (3.27%) Firmware
3 7 (2.55%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.55%) Terraform
3 2 (0.73%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 17 (6.18%) ESRI
2 12 (4.36%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.82%) Google
4 2 (0.73%) Oracle
5 1 (0.36%) SAP
5 1 (0.36%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.36%) Xamarin