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 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 285 1,414 940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.92% 15.09% 14.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.44% 15.68% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 230 1,236 663
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,250 £41,250 £41,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,188 £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% +6.56%

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 3,378 9,017 5,951
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 96.22% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,025 6,618 3,693
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £79,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

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 19 May 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 19 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 -11 121 £60,000 - 100
Wiltshire +4 66 £50,000 +5.26% 16
Dorset -16 30 £47,500 -9.52% 26
Somerset -21 28 £57,500 +15.00% 25
Gloucestershire -29 26 £60,000 +20.00% 72
Devon -49 8 £62,500 +38.89% 39
Cornwall -5 1 £46,000 +2.22% 3
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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.

1 117 (41.05%) JavaScript
2 90 (31.58%) Azure
3 77 (27.02%) Microsoft
4 76 (26.67%) SQL
5 75 (26.32%) AWS
6 69 (24.21%) C#
6 69 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (23.16%) React
8 61 (21.40%) Agile
9 58 (20.35%) HTML
9 58 (20.35%) CSS
10 57 (20.00%) Node.js
11 55 (19.30%) CI/CD
12 53 (18.60%) TypeScript
13 51 (17.89%) Git
14 50 (17.54%) .NET
15 49 (17.19%) Social Skills
16 48 (16.84%) Full-Stack Development
17 46 (16.14%) Power Platform
18 45 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
19 44 (15.44%) PHP
20 39 (13.68%) DevOps
21 38 (13.33%) Java
22 35 (12.28%) MySQL
22 35 (12.28%) Customer Service
23 34 (11.93%) AngularJS
24 33 (11.58%) Software Engineering
25 32 (11.23%) Retail
25 32 (11.23%) Docker
26 30 (10.53%) SQL Server

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 (7.02%) SharePoint
2 15 (5.26%) Confluence
3 14 (4.91%) OpenEdge
4 10 (3.51%) WordPress
5 9 (3.16%) CMS
6 5 (1.75%) Umbraco
7 4 (1.40%) Headless CMS
8 3 (1.05%) IIS
9 2 (0.70%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.70%) DNN
9 2 (0.70%) Drupal
9 2 (0.70%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.70%) Kentico
9 2 (0.70%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.70%) Sitefinity
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.35%) Moodle
Applications
1 17 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) 3ds Max
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 90 (31.58%) Azure
2 75 (26.32%) AWS
3 46 (16.14%) Power Platform
4 21 (7.37%) Power Automate
5 20 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (7.02%) GitHub
5 20 (7.02%) Serverless
6 19 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (4.56%) SaaS
8 9 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (2.81%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (2.81%) GCP
10 7 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.46%) Stripe
11 6 (2.11%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.40%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.40%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) DNS
1 3 (1.05%) Internet
2 2 (0.70%) Intranet
2 2 (0.70%) SMS
2 2 (0.70%) VPN
2 2 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.35%) FTP
3 1 (0.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.35%) SMTP
3 1 (0.35%) SSL
3 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.28%) MySQL
2 30 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 28 (9.82%) Power BI
4 16 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
5 15 (5.26%) Data Mining
6 13 (4.56%) NoSQL
7 12 (4.21%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.16%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (2.11%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.40%) FileMaker
11 4 (1.40%) Redis
12 3 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 51 (17.89%) Git
2 15 (5.26%) JIRA
3 7 (2.46%) GitLab
4 4 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.40%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.70%) Fiddler
5 2 (0.70%) Postman
5 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.70%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.35%) Babel
6 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.35%) GDB
6 1 (0.35%) Log4Net
6 1 (0.35%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.35%) Vite
6 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 49 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (11.23%) Retail
4 26 (9.12%) Finance
5 23 (8.07%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.21%) Games
7 11 (3.86%) Tech for Good
8 9 (3.16%) Marketing
9 8 (2.81%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.46%) Social Housing
11 6 (2.11%) Electronics
11 6 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.11%) Law
12 4 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.70%) Automotive
14 2 (0.70%) Banking
15 1 (0.35%) Back Office
15 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (23.16%) React
2 58 (20.35%) CSS
2 58 (20.35%) HTML
3 57 (20.00%) Node.js
4 50 (17.54%) .NET
5 34 (11.93%) AngularJS
6 21 (7.37%) RESTful
7 19 (6.67%) ASP.NET
8 18 (6.32%) .NET Core
8 18 (6.32%) .NET Framework
9 16 (5.61%) GraphQL
10 15 (5.26%) Entity Framework
10 15 (5.26%) Vue
11 14 (4.91%) Spring Boot
12 13 (4.56%) Laravel
12 13 (4.56%) Tailwind CSS
13 12 (4.21%) LAMP
13 12 (4.21%) REST
14 11 (3.86%) JSON
15 10 (3.51%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.07%) Data Structures
2 15 (5.26%) IoT
3 10 (3.51%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.81%) Learning Management System
5 8 (2.81%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.46%) Smart Home
7 6 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.11%) N-Tier
7 6 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.75%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.40%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.40%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) PropTech
10 3 (1.05%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.05%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.77%) Linux
2 24 (8.42%) Windows
3 9 (3.16%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.81%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (21.40%) Agile
3 55 (19.30%) CI/CD
4 48 (16.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 39 (13.68%) DevOps
6 35 (12.28%) Customer Service
7 33 (11.58%) Software Engineering
8 29 (10.18%) User Experience
8 29 (10.18%) Web Development
9 28 (9.82%) Front End Development
10 27 (9.47%) Microservices
11 26 (9.12%) Customer Experience
11 26 (9.12%) E-Commerce
12 25 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (8.77%) Mentoring
13 24 (8.42%) ERP
14 22 (7.72%) Clean Code
15 21 (7.37%) MVC
16 20 (7.02%) Service Delivery
17 19 (6.67%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 117 (41.05%) JavaScript
2 76 (26.67%) SQL
3 69 (24.21%) C#
4 53 (18.60%) TypeScript
5 44 (15.44%) PHP
6 38 (13.33%) Java
7 30 (10.53%) Python
8 19 (6.67%) Progress 4GL
9 15 (5.26%) VBA
10 12 (4.21%) C++
11 10 (3.51%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.51%) VB.NET
12 8 (2.81%) Apex Code
13 6 (2.11%) Go
13 6 (2.11%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.75%) Dart
15 4 (1.40%) VB
16 2 (0.70%) C
16 2 (0.70%) VB6
16 2 (0.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 29 (10.18%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.32%) Degree
3 16 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.70%) MOS
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.67%) SLA
2 12 (4.21%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.81%) WCAG
4 2 (0.70%) QA
5 1 (0.35%) HL7
System Software
1 32 (11.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (5.96%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.40%) Grafana
2 4 (1.40%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.05%) Ansible
4 2 (0.70%) Terraform
5 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 77 (27.02%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.67%) Progress
3 15 (5.26%) Facebook
4 10 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.46%) Adobe
6 4 (1.40%) IFS
6 4 (1.40%) Oracle
7 3 (1.05%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.70%) Google
8 2 (0.70%) iManage
8 2 (0.70%) SAP
8 2 (0.70%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.70%) Twitter
9 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.35%) Genesys
9 1 (0.35%) IBM
9 1 (0.35%) InterSystems
9 1 (0.35%) PayPal