Developer/Software Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Software Engineer/Developer
South West > Bristol

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in Bristol is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 - 199
Rank change year-on-year - - -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 16 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.46% - 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% - 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 16 0 2
10th Percentile £40,000 - £43,500
25th Percentile £70,097 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile £86,734 - £72,500
90th Percentile £91,934 - £75,500
South West median annual salary £72,500 £56,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.89% +2.27% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 3,369 2,280 3,398
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.15% 92.53% 97.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,478 1,449 2,186
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £54,255
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +6.55% +14.22%
75th Percentile £70,250 £72,647 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured Developer/Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in Bristol

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in Bristol.

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in Bristol

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in Bristol

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, Developer/Software Engineer 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 Bristol region featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (81.25%) Software Engineering
2 10 (62.50%) Java
3 9 (56.25%) Agile
4 8 (50.00%) MVVM
4 8 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
5 7 (43.75%) Microservices
5 7 (43.75%) Spring
6 6 (37.50%) iOS Development
6 6 (37.50%) Apple iOS
6 6 (37.50%) Software Architecture
6 6 (37.50%) Swift
6 6 (37.50%) Code Quality
6 6 (37.50%) Design Patterns
6 6 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (31.25%) Innovative Thinking
7 5 (31.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (31.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (31.25%) React
7 5 (31.25%) AWS
7 5 (31.25%) Git
7 5 (31.25%) B2C
8 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (25.00%) Finance
8 4 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (25.00%) OWASP
8 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (25.00%) Banking
8 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (18.75%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) Maven
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Tech for Good
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Spring
1 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
2 5 (31.25%) React
3 4 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (25.00%) Kafka
3 4 (25.00%) Node.js
4 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
4 3 (18.75%) OpenAPI
4 3 (18.75%) REST
4 3 (18.75%) Swagger
5 2 (12.50%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (12.50%) Android SDK
5 2 (12.50%) CSS3
5 2 (12.50%) Dagger
5 2 (12.50%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (12.50%) RESTful
5 2 (12.50%) Retrofit
5 2 (12.50%) RxJava
5 2 (12.50%) SwiftUI
5 2 (12.50%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Apple iOS
2 2 (12.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Software Engineering
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (50.00%) MVVM
4 7 (43.75%) Microservices
5 6 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (37.50%) Code Quality
5 6 (37.50%) Design Patterns
5 6 (37.50%) iOS Development
5 6 (37.50%) Software Architecture
6 5 (31.25%) B2C
6 5 (31.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (31.25%) Innovative Thinking
6 5 (31.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
7 4 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) Swift
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) Kotlin
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google