Software Engineering Jobs in Bristol

Software Engineering
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 5 7 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 274 452 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 21.82% 14.57% 13.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.99% 16.50% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 186 368 243
10th Percentile £40,625 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,698 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,188 £71,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £85,000 £102,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,192 2,740 2,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 94.90% 88.33% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 788 2,058 1,483
10th Percentile £31,175 £35,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £47,231 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £57,750 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -2.43% +11.45%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,433 £73,853
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.16% -3.81% +5.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Bristol

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Bristol

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Bristol

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Bristol

Software Engineering
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 5 (1.82%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.09%) Apache
3 1 (0.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 51 (18.61%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) ResourceLink
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 70 (25.55%) AWS
2 55 (20.07%) Azure
3 40 (14.60%) GCP
4 19 (6.93%) GitHub
5 13 (4.74%) Serverless
6 11 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (3.28%) SaaS
8 5 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.82%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.82%) npm
9 4 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.09%) CloudFront
11 2 (0.73%) Akamai
11 2 (0.73%) Apigee
11 2 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.73%) Boomi
11 2 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.73%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.74%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.28%) MySQL
3 8 (2.92%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.19%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.46%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.09%) Big Data
7 3 (1.09%) Tableau
8 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (12.77%) Git
2 18 (6.57%) GitLab
3 16 (5.84%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.82%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.82%) JIRA
5 5 (1.82%) webpack
6 4 (1.46%) Maven
7 3 (1.09%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.09%) Eclipse RCP
7 3 (1.09%) PROIV
7 3 (1.09%) Xcode
7 3 (1.09%) XCTest
8 2 (0.73%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.73%) JUnit
8 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 78 (28.47%) Finance
2 55 (20.07%) Banking
3 45 (16.42%) Electronics
4 38 (13.87%) Social Skills
5 21 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.11%) Games
7 9 (3.28%) Retail
8 7 (2.55%) Legal
9 4 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.46%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.46%) Marketing
10 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.09%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.73%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 116 (42.34%) Software Engineer
2 57 (20.80%) Systems Engineer
3 36 (13.14%) Lead
4 26 (9.49%) Senior
5 21 (7.66%) Developer
6 16 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (4.74%) Lead Software Engineer
8 12 (4.38%) Technical Leader
9 11 (4.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (4.01%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Software Assurance Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Team Leader
11 8 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (2.92%) Software Manager
12 6 (2.19%) Software Team Leader
13 5 (1.82%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 5 (1.82%) Graduate
13 5 (1.82%) Senior Developer
14 4 (1.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.41%) React
2 29 (10.58%) Node.js
3 19 (6.93%) Spring Boot
4 16 (5.84%) .NET
4 16 (5.84%) AngularJS
5 15 (5.47%) Spring
6 14 (5.11%) CSS
7 13 (4.74%) HTML
8 12 (4.38%) RESTful
8 12 (4.38%) Software Packaging
9 10 (3.65%) .NET Core
9 10 (3.65%) REST
10 9 (3.28%) LAMP
10 9 (3.28%) Laravel
11 8 (2.92%) Web Services
12 6 (2.19%) Vue
13 5 (1.82%) Jest
13 5 (1.82%) PySpark
14 4 (1.46%) OAuth2
14 4 (1.46%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.47%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.65%) Private Cloud
2 10 (3.65%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.55%) Public Cloud
3 7 (2.55%) Reinsurance
4 6 (2.19%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.19%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.19%) Hackathon
4 6 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.82%) Learning Management System
5 5 (1.82%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.46%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.46%) Robotics
7 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.09%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.09%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.11%) Linux
2 11 (4.01%) Windows
3 8 (2.92%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.46%) Android
5 2 (0.73%) Unix
6 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (35.77%) Agile
2 90 (32.85%) Systems Engineering
3 75 (27.37%) Mathematics
4 60 (21.90%) Validation
5 51 (18.61%) Digital Twin
5 51 (18.61%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 51 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (18.61%) SysML
5 51 (18.61%) Verification and Validation
6 47 (17.15%) CI/CD
7 43 (15.69%) Test Automation
8 42 (15.33%) Decision-Making
9 41 (14.96%) DevOps
10 39 (14.23%) Software Assurance
11 38 (13.87%) Mentoring
12 37 (13.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 34 (12.41%) Artificial Intelligence
14 26 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
14 26 (9.49%) Microservices
15 22 (8.03%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 61 (22.26%) Java
2 58 (21.17%) Python
3 51 (18.61%) MATLAB
4 48 (17.52%) JavaScript
5 32 (11.68%) SQL
6 24 (8.76%) C#
7 17 (6.20%) PHP
8 15 (5.47%) C++
9 8 (2.92%) Bash
10 7 (2.55%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.82%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.46%) Go
12 4 (1.46%) Rust
12 4 (1.46%) Swift
13 3 (1.09%) C
13 3 (1.09%) Clojure
13 3 (1.09%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.73%) Ada
14 2 (0.73%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (32.12%) Degree
2 51 (18.61%) HNC
2 51 (18.61%) HND
3 42 (15.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (7.66%) Security Cleared
5 15 (5.47%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.55%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.82%) PhD
9 2 (0.73%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.93%) QA
2 6 (2.19%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.09%) WCAG
4 2 (0.73%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.36%) MISRA
System Software
1 21 (7.66%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Firmware
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (9.49%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.20%) Terraform
3 2 (0.73%) Ansible
3 2 (0.73%) Argo
3 2 (0.73%) Graylog
3 2 (0.73%) Istio
3 2 (0.73%) Podman
3 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (6.20%) Google
2 13 (4.74%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.28%) Databricks
4 6 (2.19%) Graphcore
4 6 (2.19%) Oracle
5 5 (1.82%) IBM
6 4 (1.46%) F5
7 2 (0.73%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.73%) SAP
7 2 (0.73%) SnapLogic
7 2 (0.73%) Splunk
7 2 (0.73%) Twitter
7 2 (0.73%) UiPath
8 1 (0.36%) MuleSoft