Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Dorset

Senior Software Engineer
South West > Dorset

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Dorset is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 77 79
Rank change year-on-year +42 +2 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 65 7 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 6.17% 0.96% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.47% 1.13% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 55 1 14
10th Percentile £51,000 - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £75,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +42.22% +32.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £63,750 - -
South West median annual salary £61,250 £68,750 £66,250
% change year-on-year -10.91% +3.77% +15.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Dorset. 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 Dorset with a recognized job title 1,004 619 731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 84.68% 97.86%
Number of salaries quoted 642 390 591
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,813 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £62,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,375 £73,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Dorset

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Dorset

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Dorset

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Dorset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Dorset over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Dorset

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth -4 26 £60,000 -25.00%
Poole +33 17 £60,000 - 1
Blandford Forum - 2 - -
Dorchester - 2 - - 2
Senior Software Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior 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 Dorset region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 27 (41.54%) C++
3 15 (23.08%) Windows
4 14 (21.54%) Linux
5 12 (18.46%) Multithreading
6 11 (16.92%) Git
6 11 (16.92%) Qt
6 11 (16.92%) C
6 11 (16.92%) Agile
6 11 (16.92%) Embedded Linux
6 11 (16.92%) Validation
6 11 (16.92%) Device Driver
6 11 (16.92%) Yocto
6 11 (16.92%) Device Driver Development
7 10 (15.38%) Scrum
7 10 (15.38%) Line Management
8 9 (13.85%) Manufacturing
8 9 (13.85%) CI/CD
9 8 (12.31%) Aviation
9 8 (12.31%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (12.31%) Technology Roadmap
9 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
9 8 (12.31%) Code Quality
9 8 (12.31%) Hackathon
9 8 (12.31%) Roadmaps
9 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
9 8 (12.31%) Java
10 7 (10.77%) JavaScript
10 7 (10.77%) C#
10 7 (10.77%) JIRA

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (1.54%) CMS
1 1 (1.54%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.54%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.54%) MySQL
1 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (16.92%) Git
2 7 (10.77%) JIRA
3 6 (9.23%) Subversion
4 4 (6.15%) LabVIEW
5 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (13.85%) Manufacturing
2 8 (12.31%) Aviation
2 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.08%) Avionics
3 2 (3.08%) Military
4 1 (1.54%) Finance
4 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) Qt
1 11 (16.92%) Yocto
2 1 (1.54%) .NET
2 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.54%) CSS
2 1 (1.54%) HTML
2 1 (1.54%) Laravel
2 1 (1.54%) RESTful
2 1 (1.54%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (1.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.92%) Device Driver
2 8 (12.31%) Hackathon
3 5 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Acoustics
5 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.08%) Windows
2 14 (21.54%) Linux
3 11 (16.92%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (18.46%) Multithreading
3 11 (16.92%) Agile
3 11 (16.92%) Device Driver Development
3 11 (16.92%) Validation
4 10 (15.38%) Line Management
4 10 (15.38%) Scrum
5 9 (13.85%) CI/CD
6 8 (12.31%) Code Quality
6 8 (12.31%) Roadmaps
6 8 (12.31%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (12.31%) Technology Roadmap
7 6 (9.23%) Change Management
7 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (9.23%) Defect Tracking
7 6 (9.23%) Performance Management
7 6 (9.23%) Waterfall
8 3 (4.62%) Unit Testing
9 2 (3.08%) Data Conversion
9 2 (3.08%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (41.54%) C++
2 11 (16.92%) C
3 8 (12.31%) Java
4 7 (10.77%) C#
4 7 (10.77%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (6.15%) Degree
2 2 (3.08%) HND
2 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) Def Stans
1 2 (3.08%) IEC 61508
1 2 (3.08%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.54%) Sitecore