Software Engineering Jobs in Plymouth

Software Engineering
Devon > Plymouth

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Plymouth 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 10 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 -18
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2 26 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Plymouth 2.27% 12.32% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 14.61% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2 23 4
10th Percentile - £33,750 £28,625
25th Percentile £67,500 - £30,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% +10.34% -30.95%
75th Percentile £72,500 £42,500 £45,625
90th Percentile - £53,000 £46,750
Devon median annual salary £65,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +52.94% -5.56% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Plymouth

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 Plymouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85 178 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Plymouth 96.59% 84.36% 88.10%
Number of salaries quoted 46 148 64
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £25,132 £34,688 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £41,206 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -8.43% -14.29%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,500 £61,250 £64,575
Devon median annual salary £33,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -21.18% - -5.56%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Plymouth

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Plymouth

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Plymouth

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Plymouth 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Development Team Leader
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) LAMP
1 2 (100.00%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP