Applications Developer Jobs in the South West

Application Developer
England > South West

The median Application Developer salary in the South West is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 197 254
Rank change year-on-year +19 +57 -2
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Developer 4 97 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.11% 1.05% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 1.09% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3 95 8
10th Percentile £39,000 £36,365 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,958 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -18.18%
75th Percentile £47,500 £64,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £49,000 £65,000 £57,629
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.48% +10.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,321 8,876 6,184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 96.20% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,034 6,472 3,844
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £79,925
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Applications Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in the South West

Applications Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in the South West.

Salary trend 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 6 May 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
Bristol +20 2 £42,500 -30.89% 4
Wiltshire +32 1 £50,000 +11.11%
Devon -22 1 - -
Applications Developer
England

Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Applications Developer 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 West region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) iOS Development
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Flutter
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) iOS Development
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Dart
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Swift
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) SAP