Software Engineer Jobs in the South West

Software Engineer
England > South West

The median Software Engineer salary in the South West is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 13 64
Rank change year-on-year -31 +51 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 193 992 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.98% 9.64% 4.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.35% 10.04% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 113 733 151
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,698 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,750 £72,250
90th Percentile £99,000 £80,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +3.70%

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 3,610 9,879 5,800
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 96.04% 89.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,259 7,137 3,825
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% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the South West

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 Software Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 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 -16 79 £65,000 +13.04% 72
Dorset -2 54 £54,430 -1.04% 23
Gloucestershire -25 29 £82,500 +22.22% 67
Somerset -1 18 £65,000 +18.18% 17
Devon -33 7 £55,000 +22.22% 9
Wiltshire -28 4 £65,000 +26.83% 11
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 193 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 92 (47.67%) Agile
3 77 (39.90%) Java
4 65 (33.68%) Finance
5 58 (30.05%) Python
5 58 (30.05%) AWS
6 57 (29.53%) CI/CD
7 51 (26.42%) Test Automation
8 49 (25.39%) JavaScript
9 40 (20.73%) React
10 39 (20.21%) SDLC
11 37 (19.17%) Git
12 35 (18.13%) Banking
13 34 (17.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (17.10%) Artificial Intelligence
14 33 (17.10%) Law
14 33 (17.10%) C++
14 33 (17.10%) Security Cleared
15 31 (16.06%) Azure
16 30 (15.54%) Machine Learning
16 30 (15.54%) Docker
17 28 (14.51%) Kubernetes
17 28 (14.51%) Full-Stack Development
18 27 (13.99%) Spring Boot
19 26 (13.47%) Microservices
19 26 (13.47%) Operational Stability
19 26 (13.47%) Marketing
19 26 (13.47%) Scrum
20 25 (12.95%) SQL
20 25 (12.95%) Community of Practice

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.07%) Apache
2 3 (1.55%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 58 (30.05%) AWS
2 31 (16.06%) Azure
3 16 (8.29%) GCP
4 12 (6.22%) Serverless
5 11 (5.70%) GitHub
6 8 (4.15%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.59%) Azure Functions
9 5 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.59%) npm
9 5 (2.59%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.59%) SaaS
10 4 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.07%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (2.07%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.07%) 5G
1 4 (2.07%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.07%) WAN
1 4 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.55%) Internet
3 2 (1.04%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.52%) ATM
4 1 (0.52%) GSM
4 1 (0.52%) HbbTV
4 1 (0.52%) J1939
4 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.70%) NoSQL
1 11 (5.70%) Relational Database
2 10 (5.18%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.63%) MySQL
4 6 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.07%) Big Data
7 3 (1.55%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.55%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.04%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.52%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.52%) Redis
9 1 (0.52%) SQLite
9 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (19.17%) Git
2 20 (10.36%) GitLab
3 14 (7.25%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.70%) JUnit
4 11 (5.70%) Visual Studio
5 10 (5.18%) Selenium
6 9 (4.66%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.63%) JIRA
7 7 (3.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (3.63%) webpack
8 6 (3.11%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (2.59%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.59%) Maven
9 5 (2.59%) Postman
10 4 (2.07%) Locust
11 3 (1.55%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.55%) LabVIEW
11 3 (1.55%) Mockito
11 3 (1.55%) Xcode
11 3 (1.55%) XCTest
General
1 65 (33.68%) Finance
2 35 (18.13%) Banking
3 34 (17.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (17.10%) Law
5 26 (13.47%) Marketing
6 23 (11.92%) Social Skills
7 11 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (5.70%) Electronics
8 7 (3.63%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.63%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.11%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.11%) Retail
10 4 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.55%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.04%) Military
13 1 (0.52%) Advertising
13 1 (0.52%) Automotive
13 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.52%) Legal
13 1 (0.52%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.73%) React
2 27 (13.99%) Spring Boot
3 23 (11.92%) HTML
4 20 (10.36%) AngularJS
4 20 (10.36%) Spring
5 19 (9.84%) CSS
6 16 (8.29%) Node.js
6 16 (8.29%) REST
7 15 (7.77%) Kafka
8 13 (6.74%) RESTful
9 12 (6.22%) .NET
10 10 (5.18%) Hibernate
11 7 (3.63%) Jest
11 7 (3.63%) JSON
12 6 (3.11%) .NET Framework
12 6 (3.11%) Playwright
12 6 (3.11%) RxJS
12 6 (3.11%) Web Services
13 5 (2.59%) Tailwind CSS
13 5 (2.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.25%) Algorithms
2 11 (5.70%) Public Cloud
3 10 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.15%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.11%) Reference Data
7 5 (2.59%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.59%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.07%) Device Driver
8 4 (2.07%) GNSS
8 4 (2.07%) Self-Driving Car
9 3 (1.55%) CUDA
9 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.55%) PCIe
9 3 (1.55%) PKI
9 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.55%) W3C
10 2 (1.04%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.44%) Linux
2 9 (4.66%) Windows
3 4 (2.07%) Android
4 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.04%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (1.04%) Unix
6 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.52%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 92 (47.67%) Agile
3 57 (29.53%) CI/CD
4 51 (26.42%) Test Automation
5 39 (20.21%) SDLC
6 33 (17.10%) Artificial Intelligence
7 30 (15.54%) Machine Learning
8 28 (14.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 26 (13.47%) Microservices
9 26 (13.47%) Operational Stability
9 26 (13.47%) Scrum
10 25 (12.95%) Community of Practice
11 24 (12.44%) DevOps
11 24 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (11.92%) Mentoring
13 18 (9.33%) Requirements Analysis
14 17 (8.81%) Decision-Making
14 17 (8.81%) Unit Testing
14 17 (8.81%) Visualisation
15 16 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 77 (39.90%) Java
2 58 (30.05%) Python
3 49 (25.39%) JavaScript
4 33 (17.10%) C++
5 25 (12.95%) SQL
6 24 (12.44%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.29%) C#
8 14 (7.25%) C
9 13 (6.74%) Rust
10 5 (2.59%) Bash
11 4 (2.07%) Ada
12 3 (1.55%) Go
12 3 (1.55%) Swift
13 2 (1.04%) Embedded C
13 2 (1.04%) PHP
13 2 (1.04%) VC++
14 1 (0.52%) Clojure
14 1 (0.52%) COBOL
14 1 (0.52%) Fortran
14 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 33 (17.10%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.29%) Degree
2 16 (8.29%) DV Cleared
3 10 (5.18%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.11%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.59%) QA
3 4 (2.07%) PMO
4 3 (1.55%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.55%) IEC 61508
4 3 (1.55%) WCAG
5 2 (1.04%) MISRA
5 2 (1.04%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.52%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.52%) JTAG
System Software
1 30 (15.54%) Docker
2 4 (2.07%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.70%) Terraform
3 6 (3.11%) Kibana
4 2 (1.04%) Argo
4 2 (1.04%) Graylog
4 2 (1.04%) Istio
4 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (6.74%) Oracle
2 9 (4.66%) Databricks
2 9 (4.66%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.63%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.59%) Google
5 4 (2.07%) F5
5 4 (2.07%) Intel
5 4 (2.07%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.55%) Graphcore
6 3 (1.55%) SAP
6 3 (1.55%) Sybase
7 2 (1.04%) Splunk
8 1 (0.52%) HP
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) QNX
8 1 (0.52%) UiPath