Software Engineering Jobs in Bristol

Software Engineering
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 17 6
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 462 371 596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 14.92% 13.92% 18.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.82% 14.55% 18.70%
Number of salaries quoted 376 254 363
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £84,375 £76,520
90th Percentile £86,250 £102,500 £89,800
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,746 2,549 3,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 88.67% 95.61% 97.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,056 1,512 2,180
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,723 £31,953
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £59,526 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +12.08% +11.81%
75th Percentile £72,433 £74,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 (5.84%) ArcGIS
1 27 (5.84%) GeoServer
2 4 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.65%) Captiva
3 3 (0.65%) Confluence
3 3 (0.65%) FileNet
3 3 (0.65%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.43%) JBoss
4 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
4 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) SAP FI-GL
1 2 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 94 (20.35%) AWS
2 83 (17.97%) Azure
3 27 (5.84%) SaaS
4 23 (4.98%) GCP
5 16 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (3.46%) Serverless
6 13 (2.81%) GitHub
7 8 (1.73%) npm
8 7 (1.52%) Azure Functions
9 5 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.87%) OCI
11 3 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.65%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.43%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.22%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (1.30%) Wireless
3 5 (1.08%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.43%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.43%) 5G
4 2 (0.43%) AMQP
4 2 (0.43%) HTTP
4 2 (0.43%) Internet
4 2 (0.43%) Network Security
4 2 (0.43%) RS-232
4 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) OFDM
5 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.22%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (5.84%) GIS
2 27 (5.84%) QGIS
3 23 (4.98%) SQL Server
4 17 (3.68%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.25%) MySQL
6 14 (3.03%) Big Data
7 8 (1.73%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.52%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.30%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.87%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.87%) Flink
10 4 (0.87%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.87%) Oracle ODI
10 4 (0.87%) SQLite
11 3 (0.65%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 62 (13.42%) Git
2 27 (5.84%) Jenkins
3 19 (4.11%) Rational Rhapsody
4 14 (3.03%) Oracle Forms
5 12 (2.60%) Visual Studio
6 11 (2.38%) JIRA
7 10 (2.16%) GitLab
8 7 (1.52%) Maven
9 4 (0.87%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.65%) JDeveloper
10 3 (0.65%) MSTest
10 3 (0.65%) NUnit
10 3 (0.65%) Storybook
10 3 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.43%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.43%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
General
1 75 (16.23%) Finance
2 72 (15.58%) Social Skills
3 43 (9.31%) Banking
4 26 (5.63%) Automotive
5 22 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 22 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.68%) Aviation
6 17 (3.68%) Electronics
7 14 (3.03%) Marketing
7 14 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.81%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.81%) Retail
9 7 (1.52%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.30%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.30%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 322 (69.70%) Software Engineer
2 129 (27.92%) Senior
3 103 (22.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 90 (19.48%) Developer
5 80 (17.32%) Embedded Engineer
6 77 (16.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 45 (9.74%) Software Developer
8 43 (9.31%) C++ Software Engineer
9 34 (7.36%) Lead
10 31 (6.71%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 30 (6.49%) Embedded C++ Engineer
11 30 (6.49%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
11 30 (6.49%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 22 (4.76%) Java Engineer
13 21 (4.55%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 19 (4.11%) Java Developer
14 19 (4.11%) Lead Software Engineer
15 17 (3.68%) Java Software Engineer
16 15 (3.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 15 (3.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (20.56%) React
2 81 (17.53%) .NET
3 51 (11.04%) CSS
4 44 (9.52%) .NET Core
5 38 (8.23%) Node.js
6 34 (7.36%) AngularJS
7 33 (7.14%) HTML
7 33 (7.14%) Spring
8 27 (5.84%) Leaflet
8 27 (5.84%) OpenLayers
8 27 (5.84%) PostGIS
8 27 (5.84%) REST
9 23 (4.98%) Vue
10 22 (4.76%) Kafka
11 21 (4.55%) .NET Framework
11 21 (4.55%) Spring Boot
12 20 (4.33%) Middleware
13 19 (4.11%) Hibernate
14 18 (3.90%) JSON
14 18 (3.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.23%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (4.98%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.68%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 11 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.38%) Private Cloud
5 10 (2.16%) Public Cloud
6 9 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (1.95%) IoT
7 6 (1.30%) Blockchain
7 6 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.08%) Robotics
9 4 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.65%) ARM Cortex
10 3 (0.65%) DataPower
10 3 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.65%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.65%) Verilog
10 3 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (9.74%) Linux
2 29 (6.28%) Windows
3 20 (4.33%) Apple iOS
4 11 (2.38%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.30%) Android
5 6 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.65%) Unix
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (35.28%) Agile
2 102 (22.08%) DevOps
3 76 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (10.61%) Web Development
5 47 (10.17%) CI/CD
6 46 (9.96%) Actionable Insight
7 44 (9.52%) Microservices
8 41 (8.87%) Full Stack Development
9 39 (8.44%) Mentoring
10 38 (8.23%) Continuous Integration
11 34 (7.36%) Computer Science
11 34 (7.36%) OO
11 34 (7.36%) Test Automation
12 27 (5.84%) Design Patterns
12 27 (5.84%) Scrum
13 26 (5.63%) Open Source
13 26 (5.63%) User Experience
14 24 (5.19%) Fintech
14 24 (5.19%) UML
15 23 (4.98%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 111 (24.03%) JavaScript
2 109 (23.59%) Java
3 92 (19.91%) C#
4 87 (18.83%) Python
5 68 (14.72%) C++
6 44 (9.52%) C
7 42 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 39 (8.44%) Ada
9 38 (8.23%) SQL
10 17 (3.68%) PHP
11 15 (3.25%) Go
12 11 (2.38%) Embedded C
13 9 (1.95%) Rust
14 8 (1.73%) Bash
15 7 (1.52%) Ruby
16 6 (1.30%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.30%) Swift
17 5 (1.08%) PowerShell
17 5 (1.08%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 51 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 47 (10.17%) Degree
4 40 (8.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.43%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.22%) OCP
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.95%) Def Stans
2 8 (1.73%) IEC 61508
3 7 (1.52%) MISRA
4 6 (1.30%) QA
5 4 (0.87%) MISRA C
6 3 (0.65%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.65%) GDPR
7 2 (0.43%) DO-178B
7 2 (0.43%) DO-254
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.22%) AQAP
8 1 (0.22%) TickIT
System Software
1 48 (10.39%) Docker
2 3 (0.65%) Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (9.74%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.16%) Ansible
3 6 (1.30%) Progress Chef
4 4 (0.87%) Terraform
5 3 (0.65%) Grafana
5 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.43%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (5.84%) ESRI
2 25 (5.41%) Oracle
3 23 (4.98%) Microsoft
4 10 (2.16%) Xamarin
5 9 (1.95%) Google
6 6 (1.30%) SAP
7 5 (1.08%) IBM
8 4 (0.87%) Teradata
9 3 (0.65%) Kofax
9 3 (0.65%) Pega
9 3 (0.65%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.65%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe
10 1 (0.22%) Databricks
10 1 (0.22%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.22%) Netlify
10 1 (0.22%) Samsung
10 1 (0.22%) Veracode
10 1 (0.22%) VMware