Software Engineering Job Trends in Somerset

Software Engineering
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 19 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 18 41 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 4.77% 5.61% 10.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 9.58% 10.95%
Number of salaries quoted 16 34 22
10th Percentile - £36,833 £29,350
25th Percentile £34,500 £52,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £57,922
90th Percentile - £90,000 £77,913
South West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 301 428 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 79.84% 58.55% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 152 244 276
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,262 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,188 £35,955 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £62,813
90th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Somerset

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Somerset over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Somerset

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Glastonbury - 9 £65,000 -
Cheddar - 5 £35,000 -
Shepton Mallet -1 1 £62,500 -
Yeovil -5 1 - -
Bath -11 1 £95,000 +22.58% 10
Street - 1 - - 1
Software Engineering
South West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (27.78%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Power BI
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) CMake
1 1 (5.56%) Subversion
1 1 (5.56%) WiX
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Electronics
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Senior
1 10 (55.56%) Senior Software Engineer
1 10 (55.56%) Software Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Graduate
3 5 (27.78%) Graduate Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Graduate IT Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Graduate IT Support
3 5 (27.78%) Graduate IT Support Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Graduate Support Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) IT Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) IT Graduate
3 5 (27.78%) IT Support
3 5 (27.78%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Software Assurance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) Next.js
2 1 (5.56%) Pandas
2 1 (5.56%) Qt
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.56%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Android
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.56%) Android Development
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (5.56%) Fintech
4 1 (5.56%) Kanban
4 1 (5.56%) Line Management
4 1 (5.56%) Mathematics
4 1 (5.56%) Multithreading
4 1 (5.56%) OO
4 1 (5.56%) OOP
4 1 (5.56%) OWASP
4 1 (5.56%) Programme Management
4 1 (5.56%) Secure Coding
4 1 (5.56%) SOLID
4 1 (5.56%) Statistics
4 1 (5.56%) TDD
4 1 (5.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) C++
2 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) C
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) Rust
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) SAP