Software Engineering Job Trends in Swansea

Software Engineering
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 1 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 +7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 3 27 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 3.03% 35.53% 10.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 36.49% 11.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 12
10th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £36,700
25th Percentile £45,625 £51,875 £42,069
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £48,066
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +24.83% +17.94%
75th Percentile £54,000 £65,000 £60,450
90th Percentile £56,400 - £69,298
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £48,066
% change year-on-year -16.67% +24.83% +17.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78 74 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 78.79% 97.37% 91.96%
Number of salaries quoted 52 34 101
10th Percentile £31,625 £32,650 £32,603
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,052 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% -0.94% +5.61%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,252 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,425 £65,000 £73,048
West Wales median annual salary £43,924 £45,000 £46,816
% change year-on-year -2.39% -3.88% +4.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Swansea

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Swansea over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Swansea

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Django
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (33.33%) pytest
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Case Management
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) SEO
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Delphi
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle