Software Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Software Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Software Engineer salary in Cardiff is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 46 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 15 20 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.27% 3.47% 6.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 3.81% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 24
10th Percentile £41,250 - £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,227 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile - £73,000 £70,250
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £46,799 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.53% +4.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 619 525 830
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 90.99% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 538 401 619
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,173 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% -4.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,575 £67,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,625 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,496 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.09% -9.01% +11.11%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Cardiff

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Cardiff

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, 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 Cardiff region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Code Quality
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) Scrum
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) TDD
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) C++
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) .NET
4 2 (13.33%) STL
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) NHS
4 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (13.33%) GraphQL
4 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
4 2 (13.33%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (13.33%) Cost Reduction

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) GraphQL
1 2 (13.33%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
1 2 (13.33%) NHS
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) Code Quality
2 7 (46.67%) Scrum
3 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 5 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
4 2 (13.33%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (13.33%) TDD
4 2 (13.33%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) C++
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft