Software Delivery Job Trends in the South West

Software Delivery
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 162 178
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 12 29 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.24% 0.70% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.82% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 37
10th Percentile £45,250 £43,125 £39,748
25th Percentile £58,438 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £70,313 £78,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £84,375 £84,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Software Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,620 3,550 4,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.51% 85.42% 89.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,491 1,780 3,234
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,450 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,875 £40,236 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,100
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Delivery relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in the South West

Software Delivery
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Software Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the South West over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Delivery in the South West

Software Delivery
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 Software Delivery within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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 +2 4 £71,250 +30.43% 13
Devon - 4 £62,500 - 6
Dorset -4 2 - - 5
Wiltshire +1 1 £37,500 -21.05% 4
Somerset - 1 £47,500 - 8
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (25.00%) SaaS
1 3 (25.00%) Serverless
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (16.67%) GIS
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 3 (25.00%) Billing
2 2 (16.67%) Military
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Software Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Development Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Development Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Account Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Junior IT Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
1 4 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 4 (33.33%) React
2 2 (16.67%) JavaFX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (58.33%) SDLC
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) AI
4 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Project Management
4 4 (33.33%) Release Management
5 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (25.00%) Cost Management
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Runbook
6 2 (16.67%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) ISO 9001
3 1 (8.33%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Atlassian