Senior Software Developer Jobs in the South West

Senior Software Developer
England > South West

The median Senior Software Developer salary in the South West is £58,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 266 224
Rank change year-on-year +57 -42 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 80 6 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.85% 0.090% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.10% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 70 5 59
10th Percentile £43,750 - £42,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £30,932 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +21.74%

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 9,007 5,954 7,863
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.23% 89.04% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,612 3,701 5,122
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £29,375
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £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 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,712
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in the South West

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in the South West

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in the South West

Senior Software 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 Senior Software Developer within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 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 +29 22 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Devon +1 16 £48,750 +57.60%
Gloucestershire - 16 £58,000 -
Wiltshire - 13 £66,500 - 3
Somerset - 10 £47,500 -
Dorset -22 3 £60,000 -14.29%
Senior Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Senior Software 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 Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 33 (41.25%) C#
2 32 (40.00%) Agile
3 29 (36.25%) JavaScript
4 28 (35.00%) .NET
5 26 (32.50%) Azure
6 21 (26.25%) CI/CD
6 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
7 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (21.25%) DevOps
9 16 (20.00%) SQL Server
9 16 (20.00%) CSS
9 16 (20.00%) Scrum
9 16 (20.00%) .NET Framework
9 16 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (18.75%) HTML
11 14 (17.50%) MVC
11 14 (17.50%) Docker
12 13 (16.25%) Mentoring
13 12 (15.00%) Design Patterns
13 12 (15.00%) Degree
13 12 (15.00%) TypeScript
13 12 (15.00%) Git
14 11 (13.75%) AngularJS
14 11 (13.75%) AWS
14 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
14 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
14 11 (13.75%) PHP
15 10 (12.50%) MVVM
15 10 (12.50%) Kanban
15 10 (12.50%) Enterprise Software

Senior Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 26 (32.50%) Azure
2 16 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (13.75%) AWS
4 3 (3.75%) SaaS
5 2 (2.50%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.50%) MySQL
3 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) Git
2 6 (7.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.75%) Finance
3 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.50%) Legal
3 6 (7.50%) Publishing
4 3 (3.75%) German Language
4 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.75%) Retail
5 1 (1.25%) Marketing
5 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (35.00%) .NET
2 16 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 16 (20.00%) CSS
3 15 (18.75%) HTML
4 11 (13.75%) AngularJS
5 9 (11.25%) Entity Framework
6 8 (10.00%) React
7 6 (7.50%) CSS3
7 6 (7.50%) HTML5
7 6 (7.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 6 (7.50%) Vue
7 6 (7.50%) WPF
7 6 (7.50%) XML
7 6 (7.50%) XSD
7 6 (7.50%) XSLT
8 5 (6.25%) Laravel
9 4 (5.00%) .NET Core
9 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET
10 3 (3.75%) LESS
10 3 (3.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (11.25%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.50%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.25%) IoT
7 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Windows
2 4 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) Agile
2 21 (26.25%) CI/CD
3 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (21.25%) DevOps
5 16 (20.00%) Scrum
6 14 (17.50%) MVC
7 13 (16.25%) Mentoring
8 12 (15.00%) Design Patterns
9 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
10 10 (12.50%) Code Quality
10 10 (12.50%) Kanban
10 10 (12.50%) MVVM
11 9 (11.25%) Roadmaps
11 9 (11.25%) SOLID
11 9 (11.25%) Unit Testing
12 7 (8.75%) Full Stack Development
12 7 (8.75%) Microservices
12 7 (8.75%) TDD
12 7 (8.75%) Test Automation
13 6 (7.50%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 33 (41.25%) C#
2 29 (36.25%) JavaScript
3 12 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 11 (13.75%) PHP
5 9 (11.25%) SQL
6 8 (10.00%) Java
6 8 (10.00%) Python
7 4 (5.00%) Swift
8 3 (3.75%) Bicep
8 3 (3.75%) Delphi
8 3 (3.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Degree
2 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) QA
System Software
1 14 (17.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Twitter