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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 18 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,233 814 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.53% 11.48% 14.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.04% 12.14% 15.11%
Number of salaries quoted 940 499 666
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,314 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,038
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%

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 7,687 6,704 7,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.34% 94.56% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,554 3,713 4,976
10th Percentile £28,833 £30,500 £30,966
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £38,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,056
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 24 April 2024.

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 24 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 +9 471 £57,500 -11.54% 121
Gloucestershire +9 336 £50,000 -23.08% 46
Dorset +19 189 £55,000 +15.79% 28
Wiltshire +10 107 £55,000 -21.43% 15
Devon +3 61 £42,500 -5.56% 29
Somerset +8 50 £50,000 -12.81% 19
Cornwall -14 2 - - 3
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 95 (7.70%) Confluence
2 27 (2.19%) ArcGIS
2 27 (2.19%) GeoServer
3 25 (2.03%) Apache
4 17 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.24%) Captiva
5 3 (0.24%) FileNet
5 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.16%) CMS
6 2 (0.16%) JBoss
6 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.081%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (1.54%) Simulink
2 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.16%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 2 (0.16%) SAP FI-GL
1 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 235 (19.06%) AWS
2 192 (15.57%) Azure
3 49 (3.97%) GCP
4 41 (3.33%) Serverless
5 37 (3.00%) SaaS
6 25 (2.03%) OpenShift
7 24 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (1.22%) GitHub
10 14 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (1.14%) npm
11 13 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (0.73%) Power Platform
13 8 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (0.57%) Azure Functions
15 6 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (0.49%) Amazon S3
15 6 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (0.41%) Azure Storage
17 4 (0.32%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.54%) AMQP
2 12 (0.97%) Internet
3 10 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (0.73%) HTTP
5 8 (0.65%) Bluetooth
5 8 (0.65%) Wireless
6 7 (0.57%) DNS
6 7 (0.57%) SMTP
7 5 (0.41%) Network Security
8 4 (0.32%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.32%) RS-232
8 4 (0.32%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.24%) 5G
10 2 (0.16%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.16%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.081%) Multicast
11 1 (0.081%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.081%) WAN
11 1 (0.081%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.27%) SQL Server
2 57 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (3.16%) MySQL
4 31 (2.51%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.43%) Big Data
6 27 (2.19%) GIS
6 27 (2.19%) QGIS
7 18 (1.46%) Hadoop
8 13 (1.05%) Cloudera CDH
8 13 (1.05%) MongoDB
9 11 (0.89%) SQLite
10 10 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.73%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.65%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.65%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.49%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.49%) Power BI
14 6 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 201 (16.30%) Git
2 128 (10.38%) Visual Studio
3 117 (9.49%) JIRA
4 96 (7.79%) Bitbucket
5 59 (4.79%) Sourcetree
6 55 (4.46%) Jenkins
7 26 (2.11%) Subversion
8 22 (1.78%) GitLab
8 22 (1.78%) LabVIEW
9 19 (1.54%) Rational Rhapsody
10 14 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (1.05%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.89%) Eclipse
13 10 (0.81%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.81%) Selenium
14 9 (0.73%) Maven
14 9 (0.73%) Storybook
15 8 (0.65%) NetBeans
15 8 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
16 6 (0.49%) Postman
General
1 140 (11.35%) Social Skills
2 128 (10.38%) Finance
3 100 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
4 91 (7.38%) Games
5 69 (5.60%) Aerospace
6 63 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
7 60 (4.87%) Banking
8 52 (4.22%) Manufacturing
9 41 (3.33%) Retail
10 40 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (2.92%) Marketing
12 34 (2.76%) Electronics
13 33 (2.68%) Automotive
14 30 (2.43%) Aviation
15 24 (1.95%) Public Sector
16 21 (1.70%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.46%) Military
18 16 (1.30%) Law
19 14 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
19 14 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 834 (67.64%) Software Engineer
2 356 (28.87%) Senior
3 275 (22.30%) Senior Software Engineer
4 245 (19.87%) Developer
5 184 (14.92%) Embedded Engineer
6 180 (14.60%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 88 (7.14%) 3D Developer
7 88 (7.14%) Games Developer
7 88 (7.14%) Unity 3D Developer
8 77 (6.24%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 75 (6.08%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 74 (6.00%) Lead
11 69 (5.60%) C++ Software Engineer
12 64 (5.19%) Software Developer
13 57 (4.62%) Senior Developer
14 46 (3.73%) Java Engineer
15 45 (3.65%) Lead Software Engineer
16 43 (3.49%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
17 41 (3.33%) Java Software Engineer
18 37 (3.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (14.19%) .NET
2 173 (14.03%) React
3 107 (8.68%) AngularJS
4 88 (7.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 78 (6.33%) CSS
6 76 (6.16%) Spring
7 74 (6.00%) .NET Core
8 71 (5.76%) Node.js
9 63 (5.11%) Spring Boot
10 58 (4.70%) HTML
11 50 (4.06%) REST
12 43 (3.49%) .NET Framework
12 43 (3.49%) Vue
13 35 (2.84%) Kafka
14 33 (2.68%) RESTful
15 31 (2.51%) ASP.NET
16 30 (2.43%) Laravel
17 28 (2.27%) Qt
18 27 (2.19%) Leaflet
18 27 (2.19%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 88 (7.14%) Virtual Reality
2 60 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
3 38 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 33 (2.68%) Embedded Systems
4 33 (2.68%) Mobile App
5 27 (2.19%) Product Ownership
6 26 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 25 (2.03%) IoT
8 21 (1.70%) Private Cloud
9 19 (1.54%) Robotics
10 16 (1.30%) GNSS
10 16 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.05%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
12 12 (0.97%) Device Driver
12 12 (0.97%) FPGA
13 11 (0.89%) Driving Licence
14 10 (0.81%) Hackathon
15 9 (0.73%) Client/Server
15 9 (0.73%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 209 (16.95%) Linux
2 102 (8.27%) Windows
3 67 (5.43%) Embedded Linux
4 28 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 26 (2.11%) Android
6 25 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.05%) CentOS
7 13 (1.05%) Debian
7 13 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.89%) Unix
9 5 (0.41%) Windows Mobile
10 2 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Embedded Compact
11 1 (0.081%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.081%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (29.85%) Agile
2 228 (18.49%) DevOps
3 207 (16.79%) Scrum
4 195 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
5 130 (10.54%) UML
6 127 (10.30%) Design Patterns
7 117 (9.49%) CI/CD
8 112 (9.08%) Full Stack Development
9 100 (8.11%) Microservices
10 94 (7.62%) Actionable Insight
11 93 (7.54%) SDLC
12 90 (7.30%) Use Case
13 83 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
14 81 (6.57%) Computer Science
15 67 (5.43%) Mentoring
16 66 (5.35%) Continuous Integration
17 65 (5.27%) Web Development
18 62 (5.03%) Containerisation
18 62 (5.03%) OO
18 62 (5.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 306 (24.82%) Python
2 294 (23.84%) C#
3 287 (23.28%) Java
4 243 (19.71%) JavaScript
5 206 (16.71%) C++
6 184 (14.92%) C
7 95 (7.70%) SQL
8 79 (6.41%) TypeScript
9 78 (6.33%) Bash
10 65 (5.27%) Rust
11 63 (5.11%) Embedded C
12 42 (3.41%) PHP
13 39 (3.16%) Ada
14 25 (2.03%) MATLAB
15 21 (1.70%) Go
16 16 (1.30%) Shell Script
17 15 (1.22%) T-SQL
18 13 (1.05%) Perl
19 12 (0.97%) Kotlin
20 10 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 396 (32.12%) Security Cleared
2 244 (19.79%) Degree
3 199 (16.14%) SC Cleared
4 129 (10.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 82 (6.65%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (0.89%) ISTQB
8 9 (0.73%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.32%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.24%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.24%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.16%) HND
12 1 (0.081%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.081%) OCP
12 1 (0.081%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 27 (2.19%) QA
3 17 (1.38%) Def Stans
4 16 (1.30%) IEC 61508
5 9 (0.73%) PMO
6 7 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.57%) MISRA
7 6 (0.49%) TickIT
8 5 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.32%) MISRA C
10 3 (0.24%) GDPR
11 2 (0.16%) DO-178B
11 2 (0.16%) DO-254
11 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.16%) SLA
12 1 (0.081%) AQAP
12 1 (0.081%) SEPA
System Software
1 106 (8.60%) Docker
2 23 (1.87%) Firmware
3 16 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.081%) NFS
6 1 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 97 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 43 (3.49%) Terraform
3 38 (3.08%) Ansible
4 13 (1.05%) Puppet
5 9 (0.73%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.57%) Grafana
7 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.32%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.081%) Nagios
11 1 (0.081%) Podman
Vendors
1 157 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.27%) ESRI
2 28 (2.27%) Oracle
3 27 (2.19%) Xamarin
4 25 (2.03%) Google
5 16 (1.30%) Red Hat
6 13 (1.05%) SaltStack
6 13 (1.05%) SAP
7 9 (0.73%) Atlassian
8 7 (0.57%) ServiceNow
8 7 (0.57%) Twitter
9 5 (0.41%) IBM
10 4 (0.32%) Teradata
10 4 (0.32%) VMware
11 3 (0.24%) Kofax
11 3 (0.24%) Pega
11 3 (0.24%) SmartStream
12 2 (0.16%) Keysight
12 2 (0.16%) Xilinx
12 2 (0.16%) Zoho