Applications Developer Job Trends in the South West

Application Developer
England > South West

The median Application Developer salary in the South West is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 189 191
Rank change year-on-year +24 +2 +50
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Developer 16 2 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.32% 0.048% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.051% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 15 1 29
10th Percentile £42,500 - £33,700
25th Percentile £44,375 £37,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -14.19%
75th Percentile £61,875 £42,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 - £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,125 £55,582
% change year-on-year +1.48% +6.37% -7.36%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 4,727 3,890 4,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 93.60% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,286 2,099 3,534
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,539
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £39,748
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,702
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +2.56% +1.40%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.81% -6.02%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Applications Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Applications Developer job vacancy trend in the South West

Applications Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Applications Developer job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Applications Developer job vacancies in the South West

Applications Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Applications Developer in the South West

Applications Developer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Bristol - 9 £61,250 -
Somerset - 6 £50,000 -
Wiltshire - 1 £32,500 -
Applications Developer
England

Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Applications Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Android
3 6 (37.50%) Apple iOS
3 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) Flutter
3 6 (37.50%) Git
3 6 (37.50%) Mobile Application Development
3 6 (37.50%) React Native
3 6 (37.50%) RESTful
3 6 (37.50%) Swift
3 6 (37.50%) Xamarin
3 6 (37.50%) Xcode
4 5 (31.25%) .NET
4 5 (31.25%) .NET Framework
4 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Clean Code
4 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
4 5 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
4 5 (31.25%) Degree
4 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) GitHub
4 5 (31.25%) MVVM
4 5 (31.25%) Syncfusion
4 5 (31.25%) Telerik
4 5 (31.25%) Universal Windows Platform
4 5 (31.25%) Windows

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git
1 6 (37.50%) Xcode
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Flutter
1 6 (37.50%) React Native
1 6 (37.50%) RESTful
2 5 (31.25%) .NET
2 5 (31.25%) .NET Framework
2 5 (31.25%) Universal Windows Platform
2 5 (31.25%) WinUI
2 5 (31.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Android
1 6 (37.50%) Apple iOS
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Mobile Application Development
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Clean Code
4 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
4 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
4 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) MVVM
5 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Change Management
6 1 (6.25%) Data Management
6 1 (6.25%) ITIL
6 1 (6.25%) Kanban
6 1 (6.25%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Swift
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Xamarin
2 5 (31.25%) Syncfusion
2 5 (31.25%) Telerik
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft