Software Engineer Jobs in the South West

Software Engineer
England > South West

The median Software Engineer salary in the South West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

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

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 17 50
Rank change year-on-year -20 +33 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 208 848 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.83% 9.18% 5.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.22% 9.54% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 129 635 203
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,400
25th Percentile £47,603 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £80,543
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%

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 3,342 8,889 6,189
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 96.21% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,039 6,488 3,847
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £79,850
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -6 117 £60,000 +4.35% 77
Gloucestershire -16 34 £60,000 -4.00% 71
Dorset -16 23 £53,180 -7.51% 14
Devon -20 14 £60,000 +41.18% 19
Somerset -12 13 £63,750 +27.50% 26
Wiltshire -24 3 £65,000 +18.18% 12
Cornwall +15 2 £77,500 -3.13% 1
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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.

1 208 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 91 (43.75%) Agile
3 82 (39.42%) Java
4 67 (32.21%) Python
5 64 (30.77%) AWS
6 52 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 52 (25.00%) React
6 52 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 51 (24.52%) Test Automation
7 51 (24.52%) Azure
8 49 (23.56%) Finance
9 45 (21.63%) Git
10 40 (19.23%) Mentoring
11 39 (18.75%) DevOps
12 38 (18.27%) Banking
13 36 (17.31%) Scrum
14 33 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
15 32 (15.38%) SQL
15 32 (15.38%) Degree
16 30 (14.42%) Security Cleared
16 30 (14.42%) Linux
16 30 (14.42%) Docker
16 30 (14.42%) BPSS Clearance
17 28 (13.46%) C++
17 28 (13.46%) Electronics
18 27 (12.98%) GCP
19 26 (12.50%) Computer Science
20 25 (12.02%) Software Testing
20 25 (12.02%) GitLab
20 25 (12.02%) Social Skills

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 7 (3.37%) Apache
2 3 (1.44%) Confluence
2 3 (1.44%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) ResourceLink
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.48%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 64 (30.77%) AWS
2 51 (24.52%) Azure
3 27 (12.98%) GCP
4 16 (7.69%) GitHub
5 12 (5.77%) Serverless
6 10 (4.81%) SaaS
7 7 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.88%) Azure Functions
8 6 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.40%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.40%) npm
9 5 (2.40%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.92%) Figma
11 3 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.44%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.92%) 5G
1 4 (1.92%) SD-WAN
1 4 (1.92%) WAN
1 4 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.96%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.48%) ATM
3 1 (0.48%) GSM
3 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.77%) MongoDB
1 12 (5.77%) NoSQL
2 11 (5.29%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.81%) MySQL
4 5 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.40%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.92%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.92%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.44%) Tableau
7 2 (0.96%) Big Data
7 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.96%) RavenDB
8 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.48%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.48%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 45 (21.63%) Git
2 25 (12.02%) GitLab
3 14 (6.73%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.77%) JIRA
5 9 (4.33%) Visual Studio
6 7 (3.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (2.88%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.88%) Eclipse
7 6 (2.88%) Eclipse RCP
7 6 (2.88%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (2.40%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.40%) JUnit
8 5 (2.40%) Postman
8 5 (2.40%) webpack
9 4 (1.92%) LabVIEW
9 4 (1.92%) Maven
9 4 (1.92%) NetBeans
9 4 (1.92%) PROIV
9 4 (1.92%) Selenium
10 3 (1.44%) Xcode
General
1 49 (23.56%) Finance
2 38 (18.27%) Banking
3 28 (13.46%) Electronics
4 25 (12.02%) Social Skills
5 9 (4.33%) Aerospace
5 9 (4.33%) Retail
6 8 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.37%) Marketing
8 6 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.44%) Law
10 3 (1.44%) Legal
10 3 (1.44%) Private Banking
10 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.96%) Games
11 2 (0.96%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.96%) Military
11 2 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (25.00%) React
2 23 (11.06%) Node.js
2 23 (11.06%) Spring Boot
3 21 (10.10%) HTML
4 19 (9.13%) CSS
5 18 (8.65%) .NET
6 17 (8.17%) AngularJS
7 14 (6.73%) Spring
8 10 (4.81%) RESTful
9 8 (3.85%) REST
9 8 (3.85%) Web Services
10 7 (3.37%) JSON
10 7 (3.37%) Kafka
10 7 (3.37%) Middleware
11 6 (2.88%) .NET Framework
11 6 (2.88%) Hibernate
11 6 (2.88%) Jest
11 6 (2.88%) JSP
12 5 (2.40%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.40%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.29%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.33%) Private Cloud
3 7 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.88%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.40%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.40%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.92%) GNSS
6 4 (1.92%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.92%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.92%) Robotics
6 4 (1.92%) Self-Driving Car
7 3 (1.44%) CUDA
7 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.44%) Device Driver
7 3 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.44%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.44%) PCIe
7 3 (1.44%) SCADA
7 3 (1.44%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.42%) Linux
2 11 (5.29%) Windows
3 6 (2.88%) Android
4 4 (1.92%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.96%) Unix
6 1 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 91 (43.75%) Agile
3 52 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 51 (24.52%) Test Automation
5 40 (19.23%) Mentoring
6 39 (18.75%) DevOps
7 36 (17.31%) Scrum
8 33 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 26 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 25 (12.02%) Software Testing
11 24 (11.54%) Decision-Making
11 24 (11.54%) Microservices
11 24 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (11.54%) Software Assurance
11 24 (11.54%) Systems Engineering
12 22 (10.58%) SDLC
12 22 (10.58%) Unit Testing
13 19 (9.13%) Analytics
13 19 (9.13%) OO
14 18 (8.65%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 82 (39.42%) Java
2 67 (32.21%) Python
3 52 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 32 (15.38%) SQL
5 28 (13.46%) C++
6 23 (11.06%) C#
7 22 (10.58%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.77%) C
8 12 (5.77%) Rust
9 8 (3.85%) PHP
10 7 (3.37%) Bash
11 4 (1.92%) Ada
11 4 (1.92%) Go
11 4 (1.92%) Swift
12 3 (1.44%) Clojure
12 3 (1.44%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.48%) COBOL
14 1 (0.48%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 32 (15.38%) Degree
2 30 (14.42%) BPSS Clearance
2 30 (14.42%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.29%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.44%) HNC
7 2 (0.96%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.37%) QA
2 6 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.40%) Def Stans
4 4 (1.92%) IEC 61508
4 4 (1.92%) PMO
5 3 (1.44%) IEC 61131
5 3 (1.44%) WCAG
6 2 (0.96%) NIST
7 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.48%) MISRA
System Software
1 30 (14.42%) Docker
2 5 (2.40%) Firmware
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.85%) Terraform
3 5 (2.40%) Kibana
4 2 (0.96%) Argo
4 2 (0.96%) Graylog
4 2 (0.96%) Istio
4 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (4.81%) Google
2 9 (4.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.85%) Oracle
4 7 (3.37%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.92%) F5
5 4 (1.92%) Intel
6 3 (1.44%) Databricks
6 3 (1.44%) Graphcore
6 3 (1.44%) SAP
7 2 (0.96%) Splunk
8 1 (0.48%) HP
8 1 (0.48%) IBM
8 1 (0.48%) QNX
8 1 (0.48%) UiPath