Developer Jobs in the South West

Developer
England > South West

The median Developer salary in the South West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 July 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 309 1,423 932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.90% 14.04% 14.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.50% 14.62% 16.11%
Number of salaries quoted 255 1,209 681
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

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 3,635 9,734 5,787
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 96.06% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,299 7,041 3,862
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,000 £37,782
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in the South West

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 Developer within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 July 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 -10 109 £60,000 +4.35% 83
Wiltshire +4 59 £50,000 +2.56% 23
Gloucestershire -16 44 £60,000 +20.00% 83
Dorset -13 36 £45,000 -14.69% 13
Somerset -11 34 £57,500 +17.95% 42
Devon -37 21 £56,000 +24.44% 34
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 2025, 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 Developer in the job title.

1 101 (32.69%) JavaScript
2 83 (26.86%) Azure
3 78 (25.24%) SQL
4 77 (24.92%) C#
5 75 (24.27%) Microsoft
6 74 (23.95%) Agile
7 71 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (20.39%) AWS
9 59 (19.09%) React
10 56 (18.12%) .NET
11 51 (16.50%) Power Platform
12 49 (15.86%) Social Skills
13 47 (15.21%) CI/CD
14 46 (14.89%) HTML
14 46 (14.89%) Git
15 44 (14.24%) TypeScript
16 43 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
17 42 (13.59%) Full-Stack Development
18 40 (12.94%) AngularJS
18 40 (12.94%) Security Cleared
18 40 (12.94%) CSS
19 39 (12.62%) PHP
20 37 (11.97%) DevOps
21 36 (11.65%) Node.js
22 35 (11.33%) SQL Server
22 35 (11.33%) Python
23 33 (10.68%) Mentoring
23 33 (10.68%) Power BI
24 32 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
25 30 (9.71%) Java

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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (6.47%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.15%) Confluence
3 11 (3.56%) CMS
4 10 (3.24%) Appian
5 7 (2.27%) OpenEdge
6 6 (1.94%) WordPress
7 5 (1.62%) Umbraco
8 4 (1.29%) Drupal
8 4 (1.29%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.97%) IIS
10 2 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.65%) DNN
10 2 (0.65%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.65%) Kentico
10 2 (0.65%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.65%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.65%) Sitefinity
11 1 (0.32%) Apache
11 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.32%) Moodle
Applications
1 17 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.97%) Elementor
3 3 (0.97%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.65%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.32%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (5.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.29%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (1.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.32%) Magento
3 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 83 (26.86%) Azure
2 63 (20.39%) AWS
3 51 (16.50%) Power Platform
4 23 (7.44%) Dynamics 365
5 21 (6.80%) Power Automate
6 18 (5.83%) GitHub
7 16 (5.18%) Serverless
8 15 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.85%) SaaS
9 10 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.94%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.62%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.62%) Figma
13 5 (1.62%) GCP
14 4 (1.29%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.29%) Cloudflare
14 4 (1.29%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.59%) Internet
2 3 (0.97%) Broadband
2 3 (0.97%) DNS
3 2 (0.65%) Intranet
3 2 (0.65%) SMS
3 2 (0.65%) VPN
3 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.32%) FTP
4 1 (0.32%) HTTP
4 1 (0.32%) SMTP
4 1 (0.32%) SSL
4 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.33%) SQL Server
2 33 (10.68%) Power BI
3 27 (8.74%) MySQL
4 15 (4.85%) BusinessObjects
4 15 (4.85%) Data Mining
5 14 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (3.24%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (2.91%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.59%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.94%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.62%) Redis
11 5 (1.62%) SAP Data Services
12 4 (1.29%) FileMaker
13 3 (0.97%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.65%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 46 (14.89%) Git
2 22 (7.12%) JIRA
3 6 (1.94%) Postman
4 5 (1.62%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.62%) GitLab
5 4 (1.29%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.97%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.97%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.65%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.32%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.32%) GDB
8 1 (0.32%) Log4Net
8 1 (0.32%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.32%) Subversion
8 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 49 (15.86%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (9.06%) Retail
4 27 (8.74%) Finance
5 18 (5.83%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.24%) Marketing
7 9 (2.91%) Games
7 9 (2.91%) Law
8 6 (1.94%) Electronics
8 6 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.94%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.94%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Social Housing
10 4 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.97%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.65%) Back Office
13 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.32%) Legal
13 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (19.09%) React
2 56 (18.12%) .NET
3 46 (14.89%) HTML
4 40 (12.94%) AngularJS
4 40 (12.94%) CSS
5 36 (11.65%) Node.js
6 24 (7.77%) Vue
7 23 (7.44%) RESTful
8 20 (6.47%) .NET Core
9 18 (5.83%) HTML5
10 13 (4.21%) .NET Framework
10 13 (4.21%) REST
10 13 (4.21%) Web Services
11 12 (3.88%) ASP.NET
11 12 (3.88%) JSON
11 12 (3.88%) Spring Boot
12 10 (3.24%) CSS3
12 10 (3.24%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.24%) Laravel
13 9 (2.91%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.12%) Data Structures
2 13 (4.21%) IoT
3 9 (2.91%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.94%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.94%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (1.94%) Smart Home
6 5 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.29%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.97%) Cyberattack
8 3 (0.97%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.97%) Robotics
9 2 (0.65%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.65%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.41%) Linux
2 15 (4.85%) Windows
3 13 (4.21%) Android
4 8 (2.59%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (23.95%) Agile
2 71 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (15.21%) CI/CD
4 42 (13.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (11.97%) DevOps
6 33 (10.68%) Mentoring
7 32 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (9.39%) Software Engineering
9 28 (9.06%) Customer Service
9 28 (9.06%) ERP
10 27 (8.74%) Customer Experience
11 26 (8.41%) Clean Code
11 26 (8.41%) User Experience
12 25 (8.09%) SDLC
13 24 (7.77%) Web Development
14 23 (7.44%) Unit Testing
15 22 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
16 21 (6.80%) Service Delivery
17 20 (6.47%) Microservices
18 19 (6.15%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 101 (32.69%) JavaScript
2 78 (25.24%) SQL
3 77 (24.92%) C#
4 44 (14.24%) TypeScript
5 39 (12.62%) PHP
6 35 (11.33%) Python
7 30 (9.71%) Java
8 16 (5.18%) C++
9 15 (4.85%) VBA
10 13 (4.21%) T-SQL
11 12 (3.88%) Progress 4GL
12 9 (2.91%) Go
13 6 (1.94%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.62%) Dart
14 5 (1.62%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.62%) Rust
15 4 (1.29%) Apex Code
15 4 (1.29%) C
15 4 (1.29%) VB
15 4 (1.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 40 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.09%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.15%) Degree
4 12 (3.88%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.65%) MOS
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.88%) SLA
2 10 (3.24%) QA
3 4 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) GDPR
4 1 (0.32%) HL7
4 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (8.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.97%) Ansible
2 3 (0.97%) Grafana
2 3 (0.97%) Prometheus
2 3 (0.97%) Terraform
3 1 (0.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 75 (24.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.85%) Facebook
3 12 (3.88%) Progress
4 6 (1.94%) Adobe
4 6 (1.94%) IFS
5 5 (1.62%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.29%) Infor
6 4 (1.29%) Oracle
6 4 (1.29%) Samsung
7 3 (0.97%) Google
7 3 (0.97%) SAP
7 3 (0.97%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.65%) iManage
8 2 (0.65%) Netlify
8 2 (0.65%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.65%) WooCommerce
9 1 (0.32%) Databricks
9 1 (0.32%) PayPal
9 1 (0.32%) Twitter
9 1 (0.32%) Xamarin