Software Engineering Jobs in Southampton

Software Engineering
Hampshire > Southampton

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 124 106 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 14.22% 13.80% 17.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.34% 14.48% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 109 89 185
10th Percentile £45,000 - £31,350
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,392 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.52% -8.88% +35.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
Hampshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 715 732 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 82.00% 95.31% 96.56%
Number of salaries quoted 614 537 957
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,021
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £85,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Southampton

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Southampton.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Southampton

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Southampton over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Southampton

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 5 (4.03%) Confluence
2 1 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Mathematica
1 1 (0.81%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.35%) Azure
2 17 (13.71%) AWS
3 5 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.61%) GCP
7 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.81%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.26%) CTI
2 4 (3.23%) Wireless
3 3 (2.42%) 5G
4 2 (1.61%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.23%) Power BI
2 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.81%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (15.32%) Git
2 9 (7.26%) Team Foundation Server
2 9 (7.26%) Visual Studio
3 8 (6.45%) JIRA
4 3 (2.42%) GitLab
4 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.61%) Gradle
6 1 (0.81%) Maven
6 1 (0.81%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 21 (16.94%) Finance
2 19 (15.32%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.26%) Police
4 7 (5.65%) Tech for Good
5 5 (4.03%) Law
5 5 (4.03%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.61%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.61%) Legal
8 2 (1.61%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.81%) Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Electronics
9 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.81%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (74.19%) Software Engineer
2 35 (28.23%) Senior
3 30 (24.19%) Embedded Engineer
3 30 (24.19%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 28 (22.58%) Senior Software Engineer
5 17 (13.71%) Lead
6 16 (12.90%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 16 (12.90%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 14 (11.29%) Developer
8 11 (8.87%) .NET Software Engineer
8 11 (8.87%) C# Software Engineer
9 10 (8.06%) Architect
10 9 (7.26%) Lead Architect
10 9 (7.26%) Lead Software Architect
10 9 (7.26%) Software Architect
11 8 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (5.65%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
12 7 (5.65%) Senior C# Software Engineer
13 6 (4.84%) Software Team Leader
13 6 (4.84%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.00%) .NET
2 15 (12.10%) .NET Core
3 14 (11.29%) AngularJS
4 11 (8.87%) ASP.NET
5 10 (8.06%) HTML
6 9 (7.26%) Blazor
6 9 (7.26%) React
7 3 (2.42%) CSS
7 3 (2.42%) HTML5
7 3 (2.42%) Node.js
7 3 (2.42%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (2.42%) Spring
7 3 (2.42%) Web Services
8 2 (1.61%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.61%) Flask
8 2 (1.61%) REST
8 2 (1.61%) SOAP
9 1 (0.81%) QML
9 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.90%) Mobile App
2 11 (8.87%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.45%) IoT
3 8 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.45%) Raspberry Pi
4 7 (5.65%) Device Driver
5 6 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.84%) SIMD
6 5 (4.03%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (3.23%) CCTV
7 4 (3.23%) NHS
8 3 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.61%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.81%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.81%) FPGA
10 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.81%) Smartcard
10 1 (0.81%) Verilog
10 1 (0.81%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.84%) Linux
2 18 (14.52%) Embedded Linux
3 17 (13.71%) Windows
4 1 (0.81%) Android
4 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.81%) CentOS
4 1 (0.81%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.42%) Agile
2 22 (17.74%) SDLC
3 17 (13.71%) DevOps
4 14 (11.29%) Design Patterns
5 13 (10.48%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (9.68%) TDD
7 11 (8.87%) Full Stack Development
7 11 (8.87%) Signal Processing
8 10 (8.06%) Mathematics
8 10 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (7.26%) Unit Testing
10 8 (6.45%) Computer Science
11 7 (5.65%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 7 (5.65%) Client Onboarding
11 7 (5.65%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (5.65%) Device Driver Development
11 7 (5.65%) Lean Software Development
11 7 (5.65%) OO
11 7 (5.65%) Test Automation
11 7 (5.65%) Trade Surveillance
Programming Languages
1 40 (32.26%) C
2 34 (27.42%) C#
3 23 (18.55%) C++
3 23 (18.55%) Python
4 21 (16.94%) JavaScript
5 16 (12.90%) SQL
6 7 (5.65%) Java
6 7 (5.65%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.23%) Embedded C
8 3 (2.42%) Assembly Language
8 3 (2.42%) Bash
9 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.81%) Go
9 1 (0.81%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.81%) Perl
9 1 (0.81%) PHP
9 1 (0.81%) Ruby
9 1 (0.81%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 24 (19.35%) Degree
2 19 (15.32%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.26%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 18 (14.52%) Firmware
2 15 (12.10%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (2.42%) Docker
4 2 (1.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.61%) Ansible
2 2 (1.61%) Grafana
2 2 (1.61%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.03%) Siemens
3 2 (1.61%) Google
3 2 (1.61%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.61%) Splunk
4 1 (0.81%) IBM
4 1 (0.81%) Intel
4 1 (0.81%) SAP