Developer Jobs in the South West

Developer
England > South West

The median Developer salary in the South West is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 11 2
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,397 1,030 1,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.27% 14.70% 24.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.88% 16.46% 25.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 747 1,453
10th Percentile £32,325 £36,250 £33,196
25th Percentile £41,227 £42,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 8,796 6,256 7,645
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.28% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,444 3,885 5,118
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the South West

Developer
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 Developer within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +4 481 £58,000 +0.87% 76
Gloucestershire +8 264 £50,000 -4.76% 25
Devon +12 194 £45,000 - 28
Dorset -5 164 £50,000 -4.76% 14
Wiltshire -1 144 £50,000 -4.76% 6
Somerset +7 101 £50,000 -9.09% 34
Cornwall +5 18 £45,000 +12.50% 3
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 513 (36.72%) JavaScript
2 466 (33.36%) C#
3 418 (29.92%) .NET
4 394 (28.20%) Agile
5 342 (24.48%) Full Stack Development
6 335 (23.98%) Microsoft
7 334 (23.91%) HTML
8 325 (23.26%) Azure
9 309 (22.12%) CSS
10 308 (22.05%) React
11 276 (19.76%) DevOps
12 259 (18.54%) Git
13 252 (18.04%) Social Skills
14 244 (17.47%) Software Engineering
15 232 (16.61%) Scrum
16 231 (16.54%) SQL
17 224 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
18 222 (15.89%) AWS
19 221 (15.82%) MVC
20 219 (15.68%) Degree
21 212 (15.18%) SQL Server
22 207 (14.82%) PHP
23 199 (14.24%) AngularJS
24 196 (14.03%) Java
25 187 (13.39%) TypeScript
26 185 (13.24%) ASP.NET
27 172 (12.31%) Security Cleared
28 161 (11.52%) Design Patterns
29 156 (11.17%) Vue
30 146 (10.45%) SC Cleared

Developer 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 95 (6.80%) Confluence
2 53 (3.79%) WordPress
3 42 (3.01%) CMS
4 30 (2.15%) Umbraco
5 25 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 21 (1.50%) IIS
7 18 (1.29%) Apache
7 18 (1.29%) Headless CMS
8 16 (1.15%) Kentico
8 16 (1.15%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.29%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.21%) SAS
10 3 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.14%) Drupal
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.072%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.07%) InfoPath
3 7 (0.50%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Simulink
4 4 (0.29%) Stateflow
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.14%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.79%) Maximo
2 9 (0.64%) Shopify
3 7 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.50%) Magento
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.29%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 325 (23.26%) Azure
2 222 (15.89%) AWS
3 108 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
4 94 (6.73%) Power Platform
5 59 (4.22%) Power Automate
5 59 (4.22%) PowerApps
6 55 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
7 40 (2.86%) SaaS
8 36 (2.58%) GitHub
9 35 (2.51%) GCP
10 26 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (1.22%) Serverless
12 16 (1.15%) Kontent
13 15 (1.07%) npm
14 14 (1.00%) Firebase
15 10 (0.72%) Figma
16 9 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (0.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 6 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
17 6 (0.43%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.72%) Internet
2 15 (1.07%) HTTP
3 14 (1.00%) DNS
4 11 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.64%) WAN
6 8 (0.57%) SMTP
7 7 (0.50%) 5G
7 7 (0.50%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.50%) SSL
7 7 (0.50%) VoIP
8 6 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.21%) Firewall
10 2 (0.14%) LAN
10 2 (0.14%) VPN
10 2 (0.14%) Wireless
11 1 (0.072%) DHCP
11 1 (0.072%) FTP
11 1 (0.072%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (15.18%) SQL Server
2 143 (10.24%) MySQL
3 65 (4.65%) Power BI
4 64 (4.58%) NoSQL
5 36 (2.58%) MongoDB
5 36 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 23 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (1.50%) GIS
9 20 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.15%) Oracle Database
12 11 (0.79%) Oracle Database 11g
12 11 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (0.72%) Redis
14 9 (0.64%) Tableau
15 8 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
16 5 (0.36%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 259 (18.54%) Git
2 118 (8.45%) Visual Studio
3 115 (8.23%) JIRA
4 97 (6.94%) Bitbucket
5 59 (4.22%) Sourcetree
6 24 (1.72%) Jenkins
7 23 (1.65%) GitLab
8 17 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
9 13 (0.93%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.64%) Storybook
11 8 (0.57%) Selenium
12 7 (0.50%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.50%) Subversion
13 6 (0.43%) Maven
13 6 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
13 6 (0.43%) webpack
14 5 (0.36%) WebDriver
15 4 (0.29%) Gradle
16 3 (0.21%) SpecFlow
16 3 (0.21%) xUnit.net
General
1 252 (18.04%) Social Skills
2 112 (8.02%) Finance
2 112 (8.02%) Games
3 107 (7.66%) Presentation Skills
4 81 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (3.36%) Fire and Rescue
6 43 (3.08%) Retail
7 37 (2.65%) Marketing
8 30 (2.15%) Tech for Good
9 23 (1.65%) Public Sector
10 20 (1.43%) Electronics
11 17 (1.22%) Legal
12 16 (1.15%) Advertising
13 14 (1.00%) Banking
14 13 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (0.93%) Publishing
15 12 (0.86%) Law
16 11 (0.79%) Aviation
16 11 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (29.92%) .NET
2 334 (23.91%) HTML
3 309 (22.12%) CSS
4 308 (22.05%) React
5 199 (14.24%) AngularJS
6 185 (13.24%) ASP.NET
7 156 (11.17%) Vue
8 139 (9.95%) .NET Framework
9 136 (9.74%) .NET Core
10 131 (9.38%) Laravel
11 102 (7.30%) Entity Framework
12 97 (6.94%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 85 (6.08%) ASP.NET MVC
13 85 (6.08%) Node.js
14 82 (5.87%) jQuery
15 77 (5.51%) REST
16 75 (5.37%) RESTful
17 70 (5.01%) HTML5
18 58 (4.15%) Blazor
19 54 (3.87%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 96 (6.87%) Virtual Reality
2 45 (3.22%) Mobile App
3 40 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (1.79%) IoT
6 22 (1.57%) Private Cloud
7 20 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.36%) Product Ownership
9 17 (1.22%) Virtual Team
10 16 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.00%) GNSS
12 11 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (0.79%) Animation
13 9 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (0.64%) Social Network
13 9 (0.64%) Tandem
14 8 (0.57%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.57%) AS400
14 8 (0.57%) FPGA
14 8 (0.57%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 59 (4.22%) Android
2 52 (3.72%) Linux
2 52 (3.72%) Windows
3 42 (3.01%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.57%) Unix
5 5 (0.36%) Windows Mobile
6 4 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (28.20%) Agile
2 342 (24.48%) Full Stack Development
3 276 (19.76%) DevOps
4 244 (17.47%) Software Engineering
5 232 (16.61%) Scrum
6 224 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
7 221 (15.82%) MVC
8 161 (11.52%) Design Patterns
9 134 (9.59%) CI/CD
10 130 (9.31%) Web Development
11 126 (9.02%) Microservices
12 117 (8.38%) User Experience
13 107 (7.66%) Mentoring
14 104 (7.44%) Front End Development
15 94 (6.73%) UML
16 90 (6.44%) Use Case
17 82 (5.87%) OOP
18 77 (5.51%) Business Intelligence
18 77 (5.51%) Computer Science
19 75 (5.37%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 513 (36.72%) JavaScript
2 466 (33.36%) C#
3 231 (16.54%) SQL
4 207 (14.82%) PHP
5 196 (14.03%) Java
6 187 (13.39%) TypeScript
7 97 (6.94%) Python
8 42 (3.01%) C++
9 31 (2.22%) Kotlin
10 27 (1.93%) C
11 25 (1.79%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.79%) VB.NET
12 19 (1.36%) Swift
13 13 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.93%) PowerShell
13 13 (0.93%) Ruby
13 13 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 12 (0.86%) Ada
14 12 (0.86%) MATLAB
14 12 (0.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 219 (15.68%) Degree
2 172 (12.31%) Security Cleared
3 146 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 100 (7.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.72%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.36%) PhD
10 4 (0.29%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.21%) MCPD
12 2 (0.14%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.14%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.14%) HND
13 1 (0.072%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.072%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.072%) MCSA
13 1 (0.072%) MCSD
13 1 (0.072%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.072%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.87%) QA
2 29 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 11 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.43%) GDPR
5 5 (0.36%) WCAG
6 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.14%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.072%) SLA
System Software
1 93 (6.66%) Docker
2 14 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 14 (1.00%) Firmware
3 1 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.79%) Ansible
2 11 (0.79%) Terraform
3 7 (0.50%) Kibana
4 1 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.072%) Nagios
4 1 (0.072%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.072%) Puppet
4 1 (0.072%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 335 (23.98%) Microsoft
2 42 (3.01%) Xamarin
3 41 (2.93%) Google
4 39 (2.79%) Oracle
5 16 (1.15%) Optimizely
5 16 (1.15%) Sitecore
6 9 (0.64%) Apple
6 9 (0.64%) Facebook
7 8 (0.57%) IBM
7 8 (0.57%) Twitter
8 7 (0.50%) Adobe
8 7 (0.50%) Altera
8 7 (0.50%) Green Hills
8 7 (0.50%) Motorola
8 7 (0.50%) WooCommerce
8 7 (0.50%) Xilinx
9 6 (0.43%) Databricks
10 5 (0.36%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.36%) Splunk
10 5 (0.36%) UiPath