Software Engineer Jobs in South Wales

Software Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Software Engineer salary in South Wales is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 61 31
Rank change year-on-year +40 -30 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 68 46 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 5.87% 4.58% 7.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.30% 4.84% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 29 15 28
10th Percentile £49,000 £42,600 £43,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £69,800 £76,500
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +26.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 1,079 950 1,294
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 94.53% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 663 496 863
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,200
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,376
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +16.59%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £77,050
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,696 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% -8.61% +12.71%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in South Wales

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in South Wales

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in South Wales over the 6 months to 23 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in South Wales

Software Engineer
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
Cardiff +10 32 £75,000 +30.43% 11
Gwent - 12 - - 3
Bridgend +30 9 - -
Caerphilly - 6 £50,000 - 6
Newport - 4 £47,500 -
Glamorgan - 3 - - 8
Neath Port Talbot - 2 £60,000 -
Software Engineer
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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 South Wales region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (29.41%) C
2 20 (29.41%) C++
2 20 (29.41%) Azure
3 17 (25.00%) DevOps
4 16 (23.53%) Degree
5 15 (22.06%) Agile
5 15 (22.06%) Roadmaps
6 14 (20.59%) AWS
7 13 (19.12%) Mentoring
8 12 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.65%) Microsoft
9 10 (14.71%) Project Management
9 10 (14.71%) Time Management
9 10 (14.71%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (14.71%) Customer Experience
9 10 (14.71%) Technology Roadmap
9 10 (14.71%) Project Roadmap
9 10 (14.71%) People Management
9 10 (14.71%) Fintech
10 9 (13.24%) C#
10 9 (13.24%) JavaScript
11 7 (10.29%) .NET Core
11 7 (10.29%) Linux
11 7 (10.29%) Python
11 7 (10.29%) .NET
11 7 (10.29%) Electronics
11 7 (10.29%) Finance
12 6 (8.82%) Embedded C

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 5 (7.35%) ArcGIS
1 5 (7.35%) GeoServer
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.41%) Azure
2 14 (20.59%) AWS
3 4 (5.88%) Serverless
4 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.94%) PaaS
4 2 (2.94%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) Bluetooth
1 5 (7.35%) Modbus
1 5 (7.35%) RS-232
1 5 (7.35%) RS-485
1 5 (7.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) GIS
1 5 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (7.35%) QGIS
2 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.94%) Metadata
2 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.94%) MySQL
2 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Git
General
1 7 (10.29%) Electronics
1 7 (10.29%) Finance
2 5 (7.35%) Automotive
2 5 (7.35%) Manufacturing
3 4 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) .NET
1 7 (10.29%) .NET Core
2 5 (7.35%) CSS
2 5 (7.35%) Leaflet
2 5 (7.35%) OpenLayers
2 5 (7.35%) PostGIS
2 5 (7.35%) React
3 2 (2.94%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (2.94%) Entity Framework
3 2 (2.94%) Vue
3 2 (2.94%) WinForms
3 2 (2.94%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (8.82%) Algorithms
3 5 (7.35%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.94%) NHS
5 2 (2.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.29%) Linux
2 5 (7.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (25.00%) DevOps
3 15 (22.06%) Agile
3 15 (22.06%) Roadmaps
4 13 (19.12%) Mentoring
5 12 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (14.71%) Customer Experience
6 10 (14.71%) Fintech
6 10 (14.71%) People Management
6 10 (14.71%) Project Management
6 10 (14.71%) Project Roadmap
6 10 (14.71%) Technology Roadmap
6 10 (14.71%) Time Management
7 5 (7.35%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (7.35%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (7.35%) Prototyping
7 5 (7.35%) Rapid Prototyping
7 5 (7.35%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) C
1 20 (29.41%) C++
2 9 (13.24%) C#
2 9 (13.24%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.29%) Python
4 6 (8.82%) Embedded C
4 6 (8.82%) Embedded C++
5 5 (7.35%) Assembly Language
5 5 (7.35%) Java
6 3 (4.41%) Go
7 2 (2.94%) PHP
7 2 (2.94%) SQL
7 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) Degree
2 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) PhD
3 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) ISO 26262
1 6 (8.82%) MISRA
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.35%) ESRI