Software Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Software Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Software Engineer salary in Bristol is £60,000 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 20 14 55
Rank change year-on-year -6 +41 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 116 322 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 9.25% 10.37% 5.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.74% 10.70% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 73 250 73
10th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £44,200
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +14.04%
75th Percentile £82,751 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £77,715
South West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,191 3,010 2,450
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 96.97% 92.77%
Number of salaries quoted 813 2,250 1,531
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,510 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year - -0.54% +8.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £74,051
90th Percentile £87,250 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Bristol

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Bristol

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Bristol

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

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 Bristol region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 116 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 52 (44.83%) Agile
3 43 (37.07%) Java
3 43 (37.07%) Finance
4 41 (35.34%) Python
4 41 (35.34%) AWS
5 35 (30.17%) Azure
5 35 (30.17%) Banking
6 31 (26.72%) Test Automation
7 28 (24.14%) CI/CD
8 27 (23.28%) Git
8 27 (23.28%) GCP
8 27 (23.28%) React
9 25 (21.55%) JavaScript
9 25 (21.55%) SQL
10 24 (20.69%) DevOps
11 23 (19.83%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (17.24%) Node.js
12 20 (17.24%) Software Testing
13 19 (16.38%) Mentoring
13 19 (16.38%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (15.52%) Microservices
14 18 (15.52%) Electronics
14 18 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (15.52%) Social Skills
15 16 (13.79%) Systems Engineering
15 16 (13.79%) Decision-Making
15 16 (13.79%) Software Assurance
15 16 (13.79%) GitLab
15 16 (13.79%) Kubernetes

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (2.59%) Apache
1 3 (2.59%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) ResourceLink
2 2 (1.72%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 41 (35.34%) AWS
2 35 (30.17%) Azure
3 27 (23.28%) GCP
4 10 (8.62%) GitHub
5 5 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.31%) npm
5 5 (4.31%) Serverless
6 3 (2.59%) CloudFront
6 3 (2.59%) SaaS
7 2 (1.72%) Akamai
7 2 (1.72%) Apigee
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.72%) OCI
8 1 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.48%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.31%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.59%) Tableau
5 2 (1.72%) Big Data
5 2 (1.72%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.72%) MySQL
5 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (23.28%) Git
2 16 (13.79%) GitLab
3 14 (12.07%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (4.31%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.31%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.31%) webpack
6 4 (3.45%) JIRA
6 4 (3.45%) Maven
7 3 (2.59%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.59%) Eclipse RCP
7 3 (2.59%) PROIV
7 3 (2.59%) Xcode
7 3 (2.59%) XCTest
8 2 (1.72%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (1.72%) JUnit
8 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.86%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 43 (37.07%) Finance
2 35 (30.17%) Banking
3 18 (15.52%) Electronics
3 18 (15.52%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.45%) Retail
6 3 (2.59%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.59%) Private Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.72%) Games
7 2 (1.72%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.72%) Legal
7 2 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.72%) Marketing
7 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.86%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.28%) React
2 20 (17.24%) Node.js
3 14 (12.07%) Spring Boot
4 10 (8.62%) RESTful
4 10 (8.62%) Spring
5 8 (6.90%) AngularJS
5 8 (6.90%) Web Services
6 7 (6.03%) CSS
6 7 (6.03%) REST
7 6 (5.17%) HTML
8 5 (4.31%) .NET
8 5 (4.31%) Jest
9 4 (3.45%) OAuth
9 4 (3.45%) OAuth2
9 4 (3.45%) OpenID
10 3 (2.59%) Laravel
10 3 (2.59%) OpenCL
10 3 (2.59%) OpenCV
10 3 (2.59%) React Native
10 3 (2.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.76%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.90%) Private Cloud
3 6 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.31%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.45%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.45%) Robotics
6 3 (2.59%) CUDA
6 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.59%) Device Driver
6 3 (2.59%) Educational Technology
6 3 (2.59%) PCIe
6 3 (2.59%) W3C
7 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.72%) IoT
7 2 (1.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.34%) Linux
2 7 (6.03%) Windows
3 4 (3.45%) Android
3 4 (3.45%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 52 (44.83%) Agile
3 31 (26.72%) Test Automation
4 28 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 24 (20.69%) DevOps
6 23 (19.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (17.24%) Software Testing
8 19 (16.38%) Mentoring
9 18 (15.52%) Microservices
9 18 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (13.79%) Decision-Making
10 16 (13.79%) Software Assurance
10 16 (13.79%) Systems Engineering
11 15 (12.93%) Analytics
12 14 (12.07%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (12.07%) Scrum
13 13 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (11.21%) Computer Science
13 13 (11.21%) Containerisation
14 12 (10.34%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 43 (37.07%) Java
2 41 (35.34%) Python
3 25 (21.55%) JavaScript
3 25 (21.55%) SQL
4 11 (9.48%) C++
5 9 (7.76%) C#
6 6 (5.17%) Bash
7 5 (4.31%) PHP
7 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.45%) Rust
8 4 (3.45%) Swift
9 3 (2.59%) C
9 3 (2.59%) Clojure
10 2 (1.72%) Ada
10 2 (1.72%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.72%) Go
10 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (16.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 13 (11.21%) Degree
3 12 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.17%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) Accessibility
1 6 (5.17%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) WCAG
3 2 (1.72%) NIST
4 1 (0.86%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.86%) MISRA
System Software
1 14 (12.07%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) Firmware
3 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.03%) Terraform
3 2 (1.72%) Argo
3 2 (1.72%) Graylog
3 2 (1.72%) Istio
3 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (8.62%) Google
2 4 (3.45%) F5
3 3 (2.59%) Databricks
3 3 (2.59%) Graphcore
3 3 (2.59%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.72%) Oracle
4 2 (1.72%) SAP
4 2 (1.72%) Splunk
5 1 (0.86%) UiPath