Software Engineer Jobs in Bournemouth

Software Engineer
Dorset > Bournemouth

The median Software Engineer salary in Bournemouth is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 34 31
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 4 45 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 6.56% 7.02% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.67% 7.53% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3 39 2
10th Percentile £40,750 £38,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £58,125 £64,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £59,250 £76,000 £80,250
Dorset median annual salary £53,180 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.51% +15.00% -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bournemouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bournemouth. 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 Bournemouth with a recognized job title 60 598 136
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.36% 93.29% 77.71%
Number of salaries quoted 39 304 110
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £60,938
90th Percentile £75,500 £73,375 £84,125
Dorset median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% +5.26% -5.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Bournemouth

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Bournemouth

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Bournemouth

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bournemouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Bournemouth over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Bournemouth

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 Bournemouth region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) LAMP
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) Laravel
3 2 (50.00%) Symfony
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Confluence
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Kafka
4 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) React
4 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) Vue
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bournemouth 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) LAMP
1 2 (50.00%) Laravel
1 2 (50.00%) Symfony
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker