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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 132 107 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 14.39% 14.12% 18.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.79% 14.74% 18.69%
Number of salaries quoted 115 88 181
10th Percentile £42,500 - £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -2.27% +33.33%
75th Percentile £69,375 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,000 £78,625 £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 742 726 1,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 80.92% 95.78% 96.54%
Number of salaries quoted 634 532 934
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £38,203
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £52,446 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.29% -0.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £85,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 25 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 (3.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Mathematica
1 1 (0.76%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.45%) Azure
2 16 (12.12%) AWS
3 9 (6.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 9 (6.82%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.76%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.82%) CTI
2 4 (3.03%) Wireless
3 3 (2.27%) 5G
4 2 (1.52%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.76%) Network Security
5 1 (0.76%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.82%) Power BI
2 8 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.27%) Power Query
3 3 (2.27%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (13.64%) Git
2 10 (7.58%) Visual Studio
3 9 (6.82%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (6.06%) JIRA
5 3 (2.27%) GitLab
5 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.52%) Selenium
7 1 (0.76%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.76%) Maven
7 1 (0.76%) NUnit
7 1 (0.76%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.76%) Subversion
7 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (18.94%) Finance
2 23 (17.42%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.82%) Police
4 7 (5.30%) Tech for Good
5 6 (4.55%) Law
6 5 (3.79%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Legal
8 2 (1.52%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.76%) Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Electronics
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 93 (70.45%) Software Engineer
2 36 (27.27%) Senior
3 30 (22.73%) Embedded Engineer
3 30 (22.73%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 28 (21.21%) Senior Software Engineer
5 18 (13.64%) Developer
6 17 (12.88%) Lead
7 16 (12.12%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 16 (12.12%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 12 (9.09%) Architect
9 10 (7.58%) .NET Software Engineer
9 10 (7.58%) C# Software Engineer
10 9 (6.82%) Lead Architect
10 9 (6.82%) Lead Software Architect
10 9 (6.82%) Software Architect
11 8 (6.06%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) Senior C# Software Engineer
13 6 (4.55%) Software Team Leader
13 6 (4.55%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.48%) .NET
2 15 (11.36%) .NET Core
3 13 (9.85%) AngularJS
4 11 (8.33%) ASP.NET
5 9 (6.82%) Blazor
6 8 (6.06%) HTML
6 8 (6.06%) React
7 3 (2.27%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.27%) CSS
7 3 (2.27%) Node.js
7 3 (2.27%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (2.27%) Web Services
8 2 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.52%) Flask
8 2 (1.52%) REST
8 2 (1.52%) SOAP
9 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.76%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.76%) QML
9 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.12%) Mobile App
2 11 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.82%) NHS
4 8 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.30%) Device Driver
5 7 (5.30%) IoT
5 7 (5.30%) Raspberry Pi
6 6 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.55%) SIMD
7 5 (3.79%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (3.03%) CCTV
9 3 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.52%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.76%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.76%) FPGA
11 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.76%) Smartcard
11 1 (0.76%) Verilog
11 1 (0.76%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 34 (25.76%) Linux
2 18 (13.64%) Embedded Linux
3 15 (11.36%) Windows
4 1 (0.76%) Android
4 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.76%) CentOS
4 1 (0.76%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (25.00%) Agile
2 21 (15.91%) SDLC
3 15 (11.36%) DevOps
4 14 (10.61%) Artificial Intelligence
4 14 (10.61%) Computer Science
4 14 (10.61%) Design Patterns
5 12 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
5 12 (9.09%) Mathematics
5 12 (9.09%) TDD
6 11 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (8.33%) Signal Processing
7 9 (6.82%) Test Automation
8 8 (6.06%) Analytics
9 7 (5.30%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 7 (5.30%) Client Onboarding
9 7 (5.30%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (5.30%) Device Driver Development
9 7 (5.30%) Lean Software Development
9 7 (5.30%) Trade Surveillance
9 7 (5.30%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (29.55%) C
2 32 (24.24%) C#
3 22 (16.67%) Python
4 21 (15.91%) JavaScript
4 21 (15.91%) SQL
5 20 (15.15%) C++
6 7 (5.30%) T-SQL
7 6 (4.55%) Java
8 4 (3.03%) Embedded C
9 3 (2.27%) Assembly Language
9 3 (2.27%) Bash
9 3 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.76%) Go
10 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.76%) Perl
10 1 (0.76%) PHP
10 1 (0.76%) Ruby
10 1 (0.76%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 31 (23.48%) Degree
2 21 (15.91%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 18 (13.64%) Firmware
2 15 (11.36%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (2.27%) Docker
4 2 (1.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.52%) Ansible
2 2 (1.52%) Grafana
2 2 (1.52%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.79%) Siemens
3 2 (1.52%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.52%) Splunk
4 1 (0.76%) IBM
4 1 (0.76%) Intel
4 1 (0.76%) SAP