Developer Jobs in the South West

Developer
England > South West

The median Developer salary in the South West is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 11 2
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,480 935 1,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.97% 14.16% 22.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.58% 15.93% 23.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 663 1,389
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 9,502 5,869 8,093
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.14% 88.91% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 6,957 3,670 5,129
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,375
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,720
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the South West.

Salary trend for Developer in the South West

Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the South West

Developer
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 Developer within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +5 503 £58,000 +0.87% 86
Gloucestershire +10 253 £50,000 -9.09% 28
Devon +9 234 £45,000 - 41
Dorset -5 187 £52,500 - 12
Wiltshire +1 152 £50,000 -4.76% 13
Somerset +5 108 £47,500 -13.64% 30
Cornwall +4 18 £45,000 +12.50% 3
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Developer 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 South West region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 520 (35.14%) JavaScript
2 459 (31.01%) C#
3 421 (28.45%) .NET
4 393 (26.55%) Agile
5 367 (24.80%) Full Stack Development
6 341 (23.04%) HTML
7 326 (22.03%) Azure
7 326 (22.03%) React
8 322 (21.76%) Microsoft
9 318 (21.49%) CSS
10 279 (18.85%) DevOps
11 250 (16.89%) Git
11 250 (16.89%) Social Skills
12 234 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
13 221 (14.93%) SQL Server
14 219 (14.80%) MVC
15 218 (14.73%) Software Engineering
15 218 (14.73%) SQL
16 217 (14.66%) PHP
17 216 (14.59%) AWS
18 209 (14.12%) Degree
18 209 (14.12%) Scrum
19 193 (13.04%) TypeScript
20 191 (12.91%) ASP.NET
21 189 (12.77%) AngularJS
22 182 (12.30%) Java
23 163 (11.01%) Security Cleared
24 156 (10.54%) Vue
25 151 (10.20%) MySQL
26 146 (9.86%) Web Development

Developer Skill Set
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 79 (5.34%) Confluence
2 55 (3.72%) WordPress
3 46 (3.11%) CMS
4 33 (2.23%) Umbraco
5 22 (1.49%) IIS
6 20 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 19 (1.28%) Headless CMS
8 17 (1.15%) Kentico
8 17 (1.15%) Sitecore CMS
9 16 (1.08%) Apache
10 4 (0.27%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.20%) Drupal
11 3 (0.20%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.20%) SAS
11 3 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
11 3 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.47%) InfoPath
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.27%) Simulink
3 4 (0.27%) Stateflow
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.61%) Shopify
3 6 (0.41%) Magento
3 6 (0.41%) Maximo
4 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.068%) iTrent
6 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.068%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 326 (22.03%) Azure
2 216 (14.59%) AWS
3 109 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
4 95 (6.42%) Power Platform
5 61 (4.12%) PowerApps
6 56 (3.78%) Power Automate
7 53 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
8 52 (3.51%) SaaS
9 36 (2.43%) GitHub
10 32 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
11 29 (1.96%) GCP
12 17 (1.15%) Kontent
13 14 (0.95%) Firebase
14 13 (0.88%) npm
15 11 (0.74%) Serverless
16 10 (0.68%) Figma
17 8 (0.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 6 (0.41%) Azure Machine Learning
18 6 (0.41%) Google Play
18 6 (0.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.69%) Internet
2 15 (1.01%) HTTP
3 14 (0.95%) DNS
4 11 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.68%) WAN
6 9 (0.61%) SMTP
7 8 (0.54%) 5G
7 8 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.47%) SSL
8 7 (0.47%) VoIP
9 6 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.20%) Firewall
11 2 (0.14%) LAN
11 2 (0.14%) VPN
11 2 (0.14%) Wireless
12 1 (0.068%) FTP
12 1 (0.068%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (14.93%) SQL Server
2 151 (10.20%) MySQL
3 68 (4.59%) Power BI
4 46 (3.11%) NoSQL
5 39 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (2.43%) MongoDB
7 29 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 22 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (1.15%) GIS
11 15 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 14 (0.95%) Oracle Database
13 11 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (0.61%) Oracle Database 11g
14 9 (0.61%) Redis
14 9 (0.61%) Tableau
15 8 (0.54%) Qlik Sense
16 5 (0.34%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 250 (16.89%) Git
2 102 (6.89%) Visual Studio
3 99 (6.69%) JIRA
4 82 (5.54%) Bitbucket
5 59 (3.99%) Sourcetree
6 23 (1.55%) GitLab
6 23 (1.55%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.81%) Android Studio
7 12 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.68%) webpack
9 9 (0.61%) Storybook
10 8 (0.54%) Selenium
11 7 (0.47%) Subversion
12 5 (0.34%) LabVIEW
12 5 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
13 4 (0.27%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.27%) Gradle
13 4 (0.27%) Maven
14 3 (0.20%) Grunt
14 3 (0.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 250 (16.89%) Social Skills
2 103 (6.96%) Finance
3 98 (6.62%) Games
4 89 (6.01%) Presentation Skills
5 87 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (3.31%) Fire and Rescue
7 40 (2.70%) Retail
8 39 (2.64%) Marketing
9 35 (2.36%) Tech for Good
10 22 (1.49%) Public Sector
11 21 (1.42%) Aviation
11 21 (1.42%) Electronics
12 19 (1.28%) Legal
12 19 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.22%) Advertising
14 14 (0.95%) Law
15 13 (0.88%) Aerospace
15 13 (0.88%) Publishing
15 13 (0.88%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 421 (28.45%) .NET
2 341 (23.04%) HTML
3 326 (22.03%) React
4 318 (21.49%) CSS
5 191 (12.91%) ASP.NET
6 189 (12.77%) AngularJS
7 156 (10.54%) Vue
8 142 (9.59%) .NET Core
8 142 (9.59%) .NET Framework
9 131 (8.85%) Laravel
10 105 (7.09%) Entity Framework
11 92 (6.22%) Node.js
12 86 (5.81%) jQuery
13 84 (5.68%) ASP.NET MVC
14 81 (5.47%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 68 (4.59%) HTML5
15 68 (4.59%) RESTful
16 65 (4.39%) REST
17 59 (3.99%) ASP.NET Web API
17 59 (3.99%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.41%) Virtual Reality
2 46 (3.11%) Mobile App
3 41 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 27 (1.82%) IoT
6 22 (1.49%) Private Cloud
7 21 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.28%) Product Ownership
9 17 (1.15%) Virtual Team
10 16 (1.08%) GNSS
11 13 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (0.74%) Animation
13 10 (0.68%) Tandem
14 9 (0.61%) FPGA
14 9 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (0.61%) Social Network
14 9 (0.61%) VHDL
15 8 (0.54%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.54%) MicroBlaze
Operating Systems
1 65 (4.39%) Android
2 53 (3.58%) Windows
3 49 (3.31%) Linux
4 39 (2.64%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.54%) Unix
6 5 (0.34%) Windows Mobile
7 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (26.55%) Agile
2 367 (24.80%) Full Stack Development
3 279 (18.85%) DevOps
4 234 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
5 219 (14.80%) MVC
6 218 (14.73%) Software Engineering
7 209 (14.12%) Scrum
8 146 (9.86%) Web Development
9 144 (9.73%) CI/CD
10 142 (9.59%) Design Patterns
11 124 (8.38%) Microservices
12 117 (7.91%) User Experience
13 107 (7.23%) Mentoring
14 104 (7.03%) Front End Development
15 83 (5.61%) Computer Science
16 79 (5.34%) OOP
17 76 (5.14%) UML
18 74 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
18 74 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
19 71 (4.80%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 520 (35.14%) JavaScript
2 459 (31.01%) C#
3 218 (14.73%) SQL
4 217 (14.66%) PHP
5 193 (13.04%) TypeScript
6 182 (12.30%) Java
7 93 (6.28%) Python
8 43 (2.91%) C++
9 31 (2.09%) C
10 29 (1.96%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.89%) VB.NET
12 27 (1.82%) Kotlin
13 19 (1.28%) Swift
14 16 (1.08%) Ruby
15 15 (1.01%) VB
16 13 (0.88%) MATLAB
16 13 (0.88%) PowerShell
16 13 (0.88%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.81%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.74%) Ada
Qualifications
1 209 (14.12%) Degree
2 163 (11.01%) Security Cleared
3 135 (9.12%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.81%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.34%) PhD
10 3 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.20%) MCPD
11 2 (0.14%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.14%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.14%) HND
12 1 (0.068%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.068%) MCSA
12 1 (0.068%) MCSD
12 1 (0.068%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.068%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (2.91%) QA
2 12 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 10 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.41%) GDPR
5 5 (0.34%) WCAG
6 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.14%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.068%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (5.41%) Docker
2 16 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
2 16 (1.08%) Firmware
3 1 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.81%) Ansible
2 12 (0.81%) Terraform
3 7 (0.47%) Kibana
4 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.068%) Nagios
4 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.068%) Puppet
4 1 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 322 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 41 (2.77%) Xamarin
3 39 (2.64%) Google
4 35 (2.36%) Oracle
5 17 (1.15%) Optimizely
5 17 (1.15%) Sitecore
6 9 (0.61%) Apple
6 9 (0.61%) Facebook
7 8 (0.54%) Altera
7 8 (0.54%) Green Hills
7 8 (0.54%) Motorola
7 8 (0.54%) Twitter
7 8 (0.54%) Xilinx
8 7 (0.47%) Adobe
8 7 (0.47%) WooCommerce
9 6 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.41%) UiPath
10 5 (0.34%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.34%) Databricks
10 5 (0.34%) Splunk