Software Engineering Jobs in Bournemouth

Software Engineering
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bournemouth requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 17 28
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 7 84 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 11.48% 13.08% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.86% 14.14% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4 59 6
10th Percentile £37,875 £50,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £38,438 £51,250 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +2.13% -6.00%
75th Percentile £57,188 £65,000 £82,188
90th Percentile £58,875 £75,000 £83,750
Dorset median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bournemouth

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bournemouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 594 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 96.72% 92.52% 97.73%
Number of salaries quoted 39 265 112
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £42,500 £37,188
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 £65,000 £60,313
90th Percentile £75,500 £75,000 £83,750
Dorset median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% +4.17% -4.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Bournemouth

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Bournemouth

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Bournemouth

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Bournemouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Bournemouth over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Bournemouth

Software Engineering
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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Junior
2 2 (28.57%) Junior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) LAMP
2 2 (28.57%) Laravel
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Symfony
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) OOP
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Stability
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) SOLID
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker