Digital & IT Job Statistics in Portsmouth

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Senior	2	Up 19 places+19	£65,000	+18.18%	116 17.74%	54
Software Engineer	3	Up 14 places+14	£70,000	-	108 16.51%	28
Systems Engineer	4	No change0	£49,500	-17.50%	104 15.90%	34
Principal Engineer	6	Up 34 places+34	£70,000	+12.00%	57 8.72%	11
Programmer	15	New entry-	£65,000	-	36 5.50%	2
Development Manager	18	Up 17 places+17	£30,000	-33.33%	30 4.59%	2
Senior Software Engineer	18	Up 30 places+30	£85,000	+15.25%	30 4.59%	8
Sales Manager	18	Up 31 places+31	£35,000	-12.50%	30 4.59%	3
Business Manager	18	Up 17 places+17	£35,000	-22.22%	30 4.59%	3
Principal Systems Engineer	19	Up 29 places+29	£70,000	-	29 4.43%	8
Developer	19	Up 19 places+19	£55,000	+0.54%	29 4.43%	6
C++ Software Engineer	20	New entry-	£70,000	-	27 4.13%	4
Senior Systems Engineer	20	Up 23 places+23	£58,233	+5.87%	27 4.13%	10
Principal Software Engineer	20	New entry-	£70,000	-	27 4.13%	3
Business Development Manager	23	Up 12 places+12	£30,000	-33.33%	23 3.52%	1
Account Manager	23	Up 25 places+25	£35,000	-	23 3.52%
Support Engineer	23	Up 24 places+24	£45,000	+20.00%	23 3.52%	2
Consultant	24	New entry-	£50,000	-	22 3.36%	16
Sales Representative	26	Up 23 places+23	-	-	20 3.06%
C++ Programmer	27	New entry-	£65,000	-	19 2.91%
IT Support	27	Up 13 places+13	£45,000	+59.29%	19 2.91%
Lead	28	Up 9 places+9	£65,000	+170.83%	18 2.75%	45
Cybersecurity Consultant	29	New entry-	£50,000	-	17 2.60%	2
IT Engineer	29	Up 19 places+19	£42,500	+13.33%	17 2.60%	4
Security Consultant	29	New entry-	£50,000	-	17 2.60%	3
IT Manager	29	Up 11 places+11	£65,000	+7.43%	17 2.60%
Sales Business Development Manager	31	Up 18 places+18	£30,000	-25.00%	15 2.29%
Test Technician	32	New entry-	£26,000	-	14 2.14%
IT Support Engineer	32	Up 16 places+16	£42,500	+13.33%	14 2.14%
Software Developer	33	Up 12 places+12	£57,500	-23.33%	13 1.99%	3
Cloud Engineer	33	New entry-	£75,000	-	13 1.99%	1
Lead Programmer	34	New entry-	£65,000	-	12 1.83%	2
Digital Executive	34	Up 15 places+15	£30,000	-14.28%	12 1.83%
Customer Executive	34	New entry-	£30,000	-	12 1.83%
Analyst	34	No change0	£32,500	-33.67%	12 1.83%	28
Infrastructure Engineer	34	New entry-	£67,500	-	12 1.83%	1
C# Software Engineer	35	New entry-	£60,000	-	11 1.68%
.NET Software Engineer	35	New entry-	£60,000	-	11 1.68%
Business Development Executive	35	New entry-	£35,000	-	11 1.68%	1
.NET Developer	36	Up 12 places+12	£56,250	+3.68%	10 1.53%	1
Senior Data Scientist	36	New entry-	-	-	10 1.53%	1
Data Scientist	36	New entry-	-	-	10 1.53%	1
Internal Account Manager	37	New entry-	£28,000	-	9 1.38%
Cybersecurity Manager	37	Up 12 places+12	£90,000	+12.50%	9 1.38%
Azure Developer	37	Up 10 places+10	£57,500	+5.99%	9 1.38%
Category Manager	37	New entry-	£65,000	-	9 1.38%
Field Engineer	37	Down -6 places-6	£26,500	-33.75%	9 1.38%	2
Author	37	New entry-	£47,500	-	9 1.38%	2
Technical Author	37	New entry-	£47,500	-	9 1.38%	2
Security Manager	37	Up 10 places+10	£90,000	+16.88%	9 1.38%