Software Engineer Jobs in the South West

Software Engineer
England > South West

The median Software Engineer salary in the South West is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 64 21
Rank change year-on-year +51 -43 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 831 288 989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.45% 4.63% 10.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.86% 5.16% 11.43%
Number of salaries quoted 604 143 395
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,450 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% +4.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £89,500
England median annual salary £61,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.86% +3.70% +12.50%

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 8,426 5,578 8,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 89.64% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6,017 3,752 5,360
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,438 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,288 £36,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,725 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +8.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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 +34 245 £57,500 -8.00% 45
Gloucestershire +22 189 £70,000 +7.69% 16
Dorset +44 177 £57,500 +15.00% 22
Wiltshire +26 84 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Devon +55 79 £65,000 +73.33% 3
Somerset +27 31 £55,000 +0.28% 5
Cornwall - 7 £80,000 - 2
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 829 (99.76%) Software Engineering
2 214 (25.75%) Python
3 199 (23.95%) Security Cleared
4 187 (22.50%) C++
5 161 (19.37%) Agile
6 144 (17.33%) Java
7 143 (17.21%) JavaScript
8 136 (16.37%) Linux
9 127 (15.28%) C
9 127 (15.28%) C#
9 127 (15.28%) AWS
10 107 (12.88%) Azure
11 96 (11.55%) Degree
12 92 (11.07%) .NET
12 92 (11.07%) React
13 77 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
14 75 (9.03%) Cybersecurity
14 75 (9.03%) Bash
15 73 (8.78%) DV Cleared
16 71 (8.54%) Manufacturing
17 69 (8.30%) SDLC
18 66 (7.94%) Aerospace
19 64 (7.70%) SC Cleared
19 64 (7.70%) DevOps
20 63 (7.58%) Windows
21 58 (6.98%) Scrum
21 58 (6.98%) AngularJS
22 56 (6.74%) Node.js
23 53 (6.38%) Actionable Insight
24 52 (6.26%) Rust

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 25 (3.01%) Apache
2 18 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.17%) ArcGIS
2 18 (2.17%) GeoServer
3 6 (0.72%) WinCC
4 1 (0.12%) CMS
4 1 (0.12%) Confluence
4 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Simulink
2 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 127 (15.28%) AWS
2 107 (12.88%) Azure
3 33 (3.97%) Serverless
4 31 (3.73%) GCP
5 24 (2.89%) OpenShift
6 20 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (1.56%) SaaS
9 12 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.08%) npm
11 8 (0.96%) Azure Functions
12 6 (0.72%) GitHub
13 4 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.48%) WhatsApp
14 3 (0.36%) Sentry
15 1 (0.12%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.29%) AMQP
2 5 (0.60%) Network Security
3 3 (0.36%) RS-232
4 2 (0.24%) HTTP
5 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) RS-422
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (2.77%) Big Data
3 22 (2.65%) SQL Server
4 19 (2.29%) Hadoop
5 18 (2.17%) Cloudera CDH
5 18 (2.17%) GIS
5 18 (2.17%) QGIS
6 11 (1.32%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.08%) MySQL
8 5 (0.60%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.36%) Redis
10 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Accumulo
11 1 (0.12%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 48 (5.78%) Git
2 31 (3.73%) LabVIEW
3 29 (3.49%) Visual Studio
4 9 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.96%) Storybook
6 7 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.84%) MSTest
6 7 (0.84%) NetBeans
6 7 (0.84%) NUnit
7 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.60%) GitLab
8 5 (0.60%) Rational Rhapsody
9 4 (0.48%) Jasmine
9 4 (0.48%) JIRA
9 4 (0.48%) Mocha
10 3 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.36%) Selenium
10 3 (0.36%) Subversion
11 2 (0.24%) Maven
11 2 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 71 (8.54%) Manufacturing
2 66 (7.94%) Aerospace
3 47 (5.66%) Social Skills
4 30 (3.61%) Finance
5 27 (3.25%) Electronics
5 27 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (2.53%) Retail
7 17 (2.05%) Automotive
7 17 (2.05%) Marketing
8 14 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (1.44%) Aviation
10 11 (1.32%) Military
11 10 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.96%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
14 6 (0.72%) Advertising
14 6 (0.72%) Local Government
14 6 (0.72%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.60%) Legal
16 4 (0.48%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (11.07%) .NET
1 92 (11.07%) React
2 58 (6.98%) AngularJS
3 56 (6.74%) Node.js
4 47 (5.66%) Spring
5 45 (5.42%) CSS
6 43 (5.17%) .NET Core
7 42 (5.05%) Spring Boot
8 36 (4.33%) REST
9 32 (3.85%) .NET Framework
10 29 (3.49%) ASP.NET
11 26 (3.13%) WPF
12 25 (3.01%) HTML
13 23 (2.77%) Swagger
14 21 (2.53%) Entity Framework
14 21 (2.53%) gRPC
15 20 (2.41%) OpenAPI
16 18 (2.17%) Material-UI
16 18 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 24 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (2.53%) Embedded Systems
4 18 (2.17%) Acoustics
5 12 (1.44%) GNSS
5 12 (1.44%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.32%) Cyberattack
6 11 (1.32%) Robotics
7 10 (1.20%) Hackathon
7 10 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.08%) FPGA
9 7 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.60%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.60%) PMI
11 4 (0.48%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.48%) NHS
11 4 (0.48%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.36%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.36%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 136 (16.37%) Linux
2 63 (7.58%) Windows
3 49 (5.90%) Embedded Linux
4 21 (2.53%) Debian
5 19 (2.29%) Ubuntu
6 18 (2.17%) CentOS
6 18 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.60%) Android
9 3 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Embedded Compact
10 2 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (99.76%) Software Engineering
2 161 (19.37%) Agile
3 77 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (9.03%) Cybersecurity
5 69 (8.30%) SDLC
6 64 (7.70%) DevOps
7 58 (6.98%) Scrum
8 53 (6.38%) Actionable Insight
9 51 (6.14%) Microservices
10 48 (5.78%) CI/CD
11 46 (5.54%) Collaborative Working
12 44 (5.29%) Computer Science
13 43 (5.17%) Multithreading
14 41 (4.93%) Machine Learning
14 41 (4.93%) OO
15 40 (4.81%) Configuration Management
16 39 (4.69%) Mentoring
16 39 (4.69%) Web Development
17 38 (4.57%) Unit Testing
18 35 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 214 (25.75%) Python
2 187 (22.50%) C++
3 144 (17.33%) Java
4 143 (17.21%) JavaScript
5 127 (15.28%) C
5 127 (15.28%) C#
6 75 (9.03%) Bash
7 52 (6.26%) Embedded C
7 52 (6.26%) Rust
8 41 (4.93%) SQL
9 38 (4.57%) TypeScript
10 28 (3.37%) Perl
11 15 (1.81%) Ada
12 14 (1.68%) MATLAB
13 8 (0.96%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.84%) Fortran
14 7 (0.84%) PHP
15 5 (0.60%) Swift
16 3 (0.36%) Go
17 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 199 (23.95%) Security Cleared
2 96 (11.55%) Degree
3 73 (8.78%) DV Cleared
4 64 (7.70%) SC Cleared
5 16 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.60%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.12%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.44%) PMO
2 9 (1.08%) QA
3 7 (0.84%) ISO 9001
4 6 (0.72%) IEC 61131
4 6 (0.72%) TickIT
5 5 (0.60%) Def Stans
6 4 (0.48%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.24%) MISRA
8 1 (0.12%) MISRA C
System Software
1 36 (4.33%) Docker
2 8 (0.96%) Firmware
3 7 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.37%) Terraform
3 22 (2.65%) Ansible
4 18 (2.17%) Puppet
5 3 (0.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (2.77%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.41%) Google
3 19 (2.29%) Red Hat
4 18 (2.17%) ESRI
4 18 (2.17%) SaltStack
5 7 (0.84%) Atlassian
6 6 (0.72%) Siemens
7 5 (0.60%) YouTube
8 4 (0.48%) Cognizant
8 4 (0.48%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.36%) Samsung
10 2 (0.24%) Keysight
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle
10 2 (0.24%) SAP
11 1 (0.12%) QinetiQ
11 1 (0.12%) Xamarin