Software Engineering Jobs in the South West

Software Engineering
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 13 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 675 1,257 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.27% 15.54% 14.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.08% 16.27% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 438 705 450
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £34,875
25th Percentile £46,350 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +8.23% +15.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £90,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,475 7,724 6,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 94.61% 95.49% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,130 4,528 4,604
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,323 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.65% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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 -2 310 £65,000 - 129
Gloucestershire -2 199 £57,500 +4.55% 48
Dorset +7 63 £60,000 +20.00% 30
Somerset +12 38 £47,500 -20.83% 21
Wiltshire -12 38 £51,716 -13.81% 27
Devon -29 24 £49,149 -1.70% 26
Cornwall -2 1 - - 1
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 26 (3.85%) Confluence
2 13 (1.93%) Apache
3 12 (1.78%) Jupyter
4 10 (1.48%) Umbraco
5 7 (1.04%) JBoss
5 7 (1.04%) Red Hat Fuse
6 4 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.59%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.44%) Captiva
7 3 (0.44%) CMS
7 3 (0.44%) FileNet
7 3 (0.44%) Luigi
7 3 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.89%) OrCAD
3 4 (0.59%) Windchill
4 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.15%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) SAP FI-GL
2 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 193 (28.59%) AWS
2 158 (23.41%) Azure
3 72 (10.67%) GCP
4 51 (7.56%) Serverless
5 33 (4.89%) OpenShift
6 27 (4.00%) GitHub
7 26 (3.85%) SaaS
8 20 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (1.48%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.04%) Amazon S3
13 5 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (0.59%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 4 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.59%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 4 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.59%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.81%) Internet
2 12 (1.78%) Software-Defined Radio
3 10 (1.48%) 5G
4 9 (1.33%) WAN
5 8 (1.19%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.04%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.89%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.74%) Network Security
9 4 (0.59%) Wireless
10 3 (0.44%) 802.11
10 3 (0.44%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.44%) MQTT
10 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.30%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.30%) HTTP
11 2 (0.30%) Multicast
11 2 (0.30%) RS-232
11 2 (0.30%) RS-422
11 2 (0.30%) RS-485
11 2 (0.30%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.85%) SQL Server
2 46 (6.81%) MySQL
3 41 (6.07%) Big Data
4 27 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 23 (3.41%) NoSQL
6 19 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (2.67%) Oracle Database
8 17 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.78%) SQLite
11 11 (1.63%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.19%) Power BI
12 8 (1.19%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.04%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.04%) Redis
14 6 (0.89%) Parquet
15 4 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.59%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 103 (15.26%) Git
2 63 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 41 (6.07%) JIRA
4 30 (4.44%) Visual Studio
5 22 (3.26%) GitLab
6 21 (3.11%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.81%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.81%) Selenium
8 18 (2.67%) Bitbucket
9 17 (2.52%) Oracle Forms
9 17 (2.52%) Subversion
10 15 (2.22%) Maven
11 10 (1.48%) JUnit
11 10 (1.48%) Rational DOORS
11 10 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (1.19%) ERwin
13 7 (1.04%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.89%) RequisitePro
14 6 (0.89%) Spinnaker
15 4 (0.59%) AutoIt
General
1 147 (21.78%) Finance
2 111 (16.44%) Social Skills
3 90 (13.33%) Banking
4 44 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (5.19%) Military
6 34 (5.04%) Aerospace
6 34 (5.04%) Retail
7 29 (4.30%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.26%) Electronics
9 21 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (2.81%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.52%) Games
12 15 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
12 15 (2.22%) Marketing
13 13 (1.93%) Police
13 13 (1.93%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.78%) Automotive
15 11 (1.63%) Aviation
16 9 (1.33%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 331 (49.04%) Software Engineer
2 131 (19.41%) Senior
3 97 (14.37%) Developer
4 92 (13.63%) Lead
5 85 (12.59%) Senior Software Engineer
6 58 (8.59%) Java Engineer
7 47 (6.96%) Architect
8 46 (6.81%) Java Software Engineer
9 41 (6.07%) Data Engineer
10 35 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
11 31 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
11 31 (4.59%) Lead Software Engineer
12 26 (3.85%) Software Developer
13 22 (3.26%) Data Scientist
14 21 (3.11%) .NET Developer
15 20 (2.96%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
16 19 (2.81%) .NET Software Engineer
17 17 (2.52%) C++ Software Engineer
17 17 (2.52%) Games Developer
17 17 (2.52%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (15.56%) React
2 98 (14.52%) .NET
3 77 (11.41%) Spring
4 73 (10.81%) HTML
5 65 (9.63%) AngularJS
6 48 (7.11%) Spring Boot
7 41 (6.07%) CSS
8 38 (5.63%) Node.js
8 38 (5.63%) Web Services
9 37 (5.48%) Hibernate
9 37 (5.48%) RESTful
10 32 (4.74%) JSON
11 31 (4.59%) ASP.NET
11 31 (4.59%) XML
12 26 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
13 24 (3.56%) Kafka
14 23 (3.41%) Middleware
15 22 (3.26%) REST
16 21 (3.11%) .NET Framework
17 20 (2.96%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.74%) Virtual Reality
2 31 (4.59%) Cyberattack
2 31 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 28 (4.15%) Algorithms
4 19 (2.81%) Private Cloud
5 18 (2.67%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
8 15 (2.22%) Augmented Reality
9 12 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.48%) Cloud Native
12 9 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.19%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.19%) Raspberry Pi
13 8 (1.19%) Reference Data
13 8 (1.19%) Robotics
14 7 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 102 (15.11%) Linux
2 53 (7.85%) Windows
3 23 (3.41%) Android
4 20 (2.96%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.04%) Unix
6 6 (0.89%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.44%) CentOS
8 3 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.30%) HPUX
9 2 (0.30%) Solaris
9 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.15%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (43.56%) Agile
2 182 (26.96%) DevOps
3 144 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
4 131 (19.41%) Mentoring
5 109 (16.15%) Actionable Insight
6 100 (14.81%) Microservices
7 88 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
8 81 (12.00%) Scrum
9 80 (11.85%) SDLC
10 75 (11.11%) CI/CD
11 72 (10.67%) Test Automation
12 68 (10.07%) Continuous Integration
12 68 (10.07%) Unit Testing
13 64 (9.48%) Coaching
14 63 (9.33%) Design Patterns
15 62 (9.19%) Containerisation
16 59 (8.74%) Computer Science
17 51 (7.56%) Visualisation
18 50 (7.41%) Code Quality
18 50 (7.41%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 270 (40.00%) Java
2 221 (32.74%) Python
3 188 (27.85%) JavaScript
4 157 (23.26%) C#
5 110 (16.30%) C++
6 85 (12.59%) SQL
7 60 (8.89%) C
8 40 (5.93%) R
9 31 (4.59%) TypeScript
10 25 (3.70%) Bash
10 25 (3.70%) Ruby
11 23 (3.41%) PHP
12 21 (3.11%) Go
13 20 (2.96%) Kotlin
14 18 (2.67%) Ada
15 12 (1.78%) Perl
16 11 (1.63%) PowerShell
16 11 (1.63%) Rust
17 8 (1.19%) Embedded C
18 7 (1.04%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 256 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 157 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 125 (18.52%) Degree
4 91 (13.48%) DV Cleared
5 39 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.89%) APMP
8 5 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.74%) OCP
8 5 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.59%) HND
9 4 (0.59%) PhD
9 4 (0.59%) PMP
10 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.30%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.15%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.67%) QA
2 17 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 10 (1.48%) Software Quality Assurance
4 7 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.74%) IEC 61508
5 5 (0.74%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.59%) MISRA
6 4 (0.59%) PMO
7 3 (0.44%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.44%) GDPR
8 2 (0.30%) DO-178B
8 2 (0.30%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.30%) SLA
9 1 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 1 (0.15%) JTAG
9 1 (0.15%) TickIT
System Software
1 123 (18.22%) Docker
2 5 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 119 (17.63%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.59%) Terraform
3 20 (2.96%) Ansible
4 6 (0.89%) HP Quality Center
5 5 (0.74%) Grafana
5 5 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.44%) Puppet
7 2 (0.30%) Istio
7 2 (0.30%) Packer
7 2 (0.30%) Podman
7 2 (0.30%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.04%) Oracle
3 25 (3.70%) Google
4 16 (2.37%) Xamarin
5 14 (2.07%) SAP
6 12 (1.78%) IBM
7 8 (1.19%) HP
8 6 (0.89%) Cadence
9 5 (0.74%) VMware
10 3 (0.44%) Databricks
10 3 (0.44%) Kofax
10 3 (0.44%) Pega
10 3 (0.44%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.30%) Apple
11 2 (0.30%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.30%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.30%) Parasoft
11 2 (0.30%) Sun
11 2 (0.30%) Twitter
11 2 (0.30%) Unisys