Junior Developer Jobs in the South West

Junior Developer
England > South West

The median Junior Developer salary in the South West is £32,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 256 242
Rank change year-on-year +94 -14 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 23 26 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.59% 0.25% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.26% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4 21 17
10th Percentile £22,250 £22,000 £23,550
25th Percentile £25,625 £24,000 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £28,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -26.32% +26.67%
75th Percentile £37,125 £30,000 £41,000
90th Percentile £37,350 £33,750 £50,000
England median annual salary £32,500 £30,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -

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 3,599 9,911 5,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 96.04% 89.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,246 7,167 3,809
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,768 £37,000 £37,500
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% -

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in the South West

Junior Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Junior Developer in the South West

Junior Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior Developer in the South West

Junior 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 Junior Developer within the South West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Somerset - 7 £21,000 - 1
Wiltshire +45 6 - -
Bristol +66 5 £32,000 +33.33% 5
Dorset +39 4 - -
Gloucestershire +61 1 £35,000 - 3
Junior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 16 (69.57%) Azure
1 16 (69.57%) Coaching
2 15 (65.22%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (65.22%) Data Structures
2 15 (65.22%) Power BI
2 15 (65.22%) Commercial Awareness
2 15 (65.22%) Power Platform
2 15 (65.22%) Customer Experience
2 15 (65.22%) WFM
2 15 (65.22%) Performance Management
2 15 (65.22%) Facebook
2 15 (65.22%) Retail
2 15 (65.22%) Data Management
2 15 (65.22%) Data Analysis
2 15 (65.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 15 (65.22%) BusinessObjects
2 15 (65.22%) Service Delivery
2 15 (65.22%) SQL
2 15 (65.22%) VBA
2 15 (65.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (65.22%) Data Mining
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
4 4 (17.39%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) Operational Stability
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (17.39%) SDLC

Junior 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 1 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) NServiceBus
1 1 (4.35%) Umbraco
1 1 (4.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe XD
2 1 (4.35%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 15 (65.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (4.35%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (65.22%) BusinessObjects
1 15 (65.22%) Data Mining
1 15 (65.22%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (65.22%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (65.22%) Retail
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Electronics
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Tech for Good
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET
1 2 (8.70%) CSS
1 2 (8.70%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) HTML5
2 1 (4.35%) jQuery
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) Sass
2 1 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (65.22%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.35%) IoT
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Coaching
2 15 (65.22%) Commercial Awareness
2 15 (65.22%) Customer Experience
2 15 (65.22%) Data Analysis
2 15 (65.22%) Data Management
2 15 (65.22%) Performance Management
2 15 (65.22%) Service Delivery
2 15 (65.22%) WFM
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (17.39%) Operational Stability
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) SDLC
4 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
6 2 (8.70%) Clean Code
6 2 (8.70%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
7 1 (4.35%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
1 15 (65.22%) VBA
2 4 (17.39%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) C
4 1 (4.35%) C++
4 1 (4.35%) PHP
4 1 (4.35%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Facebook
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe
2 1 (4.35%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) WooCommerce