Developer/Software Engineer Jobs in the South West

Software Engineer/Developer
England > South West

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in the South West is £71,991 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 270 311
Rank change year-on-year -1 +41 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 20 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.22% 0.10% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.11% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 20 3 2
10th Percentile £39,966 £49,250 £44,375
25th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £57,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +25.20% +12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £91,934 £70,000 £57,813
90th Percentile - £72,250 £59,125
England median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +22.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 8,830 6,152 7,687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.10% 89.16% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,458 3,853 5,117
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in the South West

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in the South West

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in the South West

Developer/Software Engineer
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/Software Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Bristol +22 19 £71,991 +15.19% 2
Gloucestershire -21 1 £70,000 +21.74% 1
Developer/Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Developer/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 West region featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (85.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (65.00%) Agile
2 13 (65.00%) Java
3 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (45.00%) Mentoring
3 9 (45.00%) Design Patterns
4 8 (40.00%) MVVM
4 8 (40.00%) Apple iOS
5 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (30.00%) React
6 6 (30.00%) Swift
6 6 (30.00%) Software Architecture
6 6 (30.00%) iOS Development
6 6 (30.00%) AWS
6 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (30.00%) RESTful
6 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (30.00%) Banking
6 6 (30.00%) Finance
6 6 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (30.00%) Code Quality
7 5 (25.00%) HTML
7 5 (25.00%) Spring
7 5 (25.00%) Maven
7 5 (25.00%) Git
7 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
7 5 (25.00%) Microservices
7 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
7 5 (25.00%) Secure Coding

Developer/Software Engineer 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 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) npm
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Big Data
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (30.00%) Banking
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) React
1 6 (30.00%) RESTful
2 5 (25.00%) HTML
2 5 (25.00%) Spring
2 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (20.00%) Web Services
4 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 3 (15.00%) jQuery
4 3 (15.00%) OpenAPI
4 3 (15.00%) REST
4 3 (15.00%) Swagger
5 2 (10.00%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (10.00%) CSS3
5 2 (10.00%) Dagger
5 2 (10.00%) Flutter
5 2 (10.00%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (10.00%) Quarkus
5 2 (10.00%) Retrofit
5 2 (10.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (20.00%) Android
3 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (65.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) Design Patterns
3 9 (45.00%) Mentoring
4 8 (40.00%) MVVM
5 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (30.00%) Code Quality
6 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (30.00%) iOS Development
6 6 (30.00%) Software Architecture
6 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (25.00%) Microservices
7 5 (25.00%) Secure Coding
8 4 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
8 4 (20.00%) OWASP
9 3 (15.00%) B2C
9 3 (15.00%) Mobile Development
9 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (30.00%) Swift
4 4 (20.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (10.00%) Python
5 2 (10.00%) Rust
5 2 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle