Software Engineer Jobs in the South West

Software Engineer
England > South West

The median Software Engineer salary in the South West is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 52 33
Rank change year-on-year +36 -19 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 868 358 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.26% 5.36% 8.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.63% 6.02% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 653 177 326
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

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 9,017 5,951 7,863
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 89.06% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,618 3,693 5,100
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £29,363
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 £79,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the South West

Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 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 +42 323 £57,500 -8.00% 73
Gloucestershire +7 205 £61,000 -2.40% 22
Dorset +20 143 £57,500 +15.00% 17
Wiltshire +21 83 £55,000 - 10
Devon +38 60 £42,500 +9.68% 11
Somerset +25 38 £50,000 -20.00% 10
Cornwall -12 4 £80,000 +88.24% 2
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 South West region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 863 (99.42%) Software Engineering
2 250 (28.80%) Security Cleared
3 248 (28.57%) Python
4 229 (26.38%) Agile
5 193 (22.24%) JavaScript
6 185 (21.31%) Java
7 181 (20.85%) C++
8 169 (19.47%) Linux
9 166 (19.12%) AWS
10 157 (18.09%) C
11 137 (15.78%) Azure
12 131 (15.09%) C#
13 127 (14.63%) React
14 103 (11.87%) .NET
15 99 (11.41%) Degree
16 98 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
17 95 (10.94%) DevOps
18 80 (9.22%) AngularJS
19 79 (9.10%) Cybersecurity
19 79 (9.10%) Actionable Insight
19 79 (9.10%) DV Cleared
20 75 (8.64%) Bash
20 75 (8.64%) Scrum
21 73 (8.41%) Git
22 71 (8.18%) SC Cleared
22 71 (8.18%) Aerospace
22 71 (8.18%) Microservices
23 66 (7.60%) Windows
23 66 (7.60%) CI/CD
24 65 (7.49%) Embedded Linux

Software Engineer 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 27 (3.11%) Apache
1 27 (3.11%) ArcGIS
1 27 (3.11%) GeoServer
2 16 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.35%) Confluence
4 2 (0.23%) Captiva
4 2 (0.23%) CMS
4 2 (0.23%) FileNet
4 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.12%) JBoss
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (1.50%) Simulink
2 2 (0.23%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 166 (19.12%) AWS
2 137 (15.78%) Azure
3 36 (4.15%) GCP
4 35 (4.03%) Serverless
5 27 (3.11%) OpenShift
6 19 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (1.84%) SaaS
8 14 (1.61%) npm
9 12 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.04%) GitHub
11 8 (0.92%) Azure Functions
12 5 (0.58%) Azure Storage
13 4 (0.46%) OCI
14 3 (0.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.35%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.35%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.96%) AMQP
2 8 (0.92%) Wireless
3 5 (0.58%) Bluetooth
3 5 (0.58%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.58%) RS-232
4 2 (0.23%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.23%) 5G
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) OFDM
5 1 (0.12%) RS-422
5 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.12%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.12%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (4.61%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.11%) GIS
3 27 (3.11%) QGIS
4 22 (2.53%) Big Data
5 20 (2.30%) MySQL
6 17 (1.96%) Hadoop
7 16 (1.84%) Cloudera CDH
8 15 (1.73%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.15%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.69%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
13 3 (0.35%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.35%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.23%) SQLite
15 1 (0.12%) Apache Accumulo
15 1 (0.12%) Crystal Reports
15 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (8.41%) Git
2 36 (4.15%) Visual Studio
3 28 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.96%) LabVIEW
5 15 (1.73%) JIRA
6 14 (1.61%) Subversion
7 12 (1.38%) Rational Rhapsody
8 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.04%) GitLab
9 9 (1.04%) Selenium
9 9 (1.04%) Storybook
10 8 (0.92%) Maven
10 8 (0.92%) NetBeans
10 8 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.81%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.69%) Postman
13 5 (0.58%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.46%) MSTest
14 4 (0.46%) NUnit
General
1 71 (8.18%) Aerospace
2 63 (7.26%) Social Skills
3 54 (6.22%) Finance
4 50 (5.76%) Manufacturing
5 34 (3.92%) Retail
6 33 (3.80%) Automotive
7 26 (3.00%) Aviation
8 24 (2.76%) Marketing
9 20 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (1.96%) Electronics
11 16 (1.84%) Banking
11 16 (1.84%) Military
12 12 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.27%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.04%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.69%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (14.63%) React
2 103 (11.87%) .NET
3 80 (9.22%) AngularJS
4 63 (7.26%) Node.js
5 58 (6.68%) .NET Core
6 57 (6.57%) CSS
7 50 (5.76%) Spring Boot
8 49 (5.65%) Spring
9 37 (4.26%) REST
10 33 (3.80%) .NET Framework
11 31 (3.57%) Swagger
12 27 (3.11%) HTML
12 27 (3.11%) Leaflet
12 27 (3.11%) OpenLayers
12 27 (3.11%) PostGIS
12 27 (3.11%) Vue
13 25 (2.88%) OpenAPI
14 24 (2.76%) Qt
15 21 (2.42%) STL
16 20 (2.30%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (3.00%) Embedded Systems
3 24 (2.76%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 14 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 12 (1.38%) GNSS
6 12 (1.38%) IoT
7 11 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.27%) Device Driver
7 11 (1.27%) Driving Licence
7 11 (1.27%) FPGA
8 10 (1.15%) Hackathon
9 9 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (0.92%) Robotics
11 7 (0.81%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.69%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.69%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.46%) Acoustics
14 3 (0.35%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 169 (19.47%) Linux
2 66 (7.60%) Windows
3 65 (7.49%) Embedded Linux
4 23 (2.65%) Ubuntu
5 17 (1.96%) Debian
6 16 (1.84%) CentOS
6 16 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (1.73%) Android
8 14 (1.61%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.35%) Unix
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Embedded Compact
10 2 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 863 (99.42%) Software Engineering
2 229 (26.38%) Agile
3 98 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (10.94%) DevOps
5 79 (9.10%) Actionable Insight
5 79 (9.10%) Cybersecurity
6 75 (8.64%) Scrum
7 71 (8.18%) Microservices
8 66 (7.60%) CI/CD
9 63 (7.26%) SDLC
10 53 (6.11%) Full Stack Development
11 50 (5.76%) Web Development
12 48 (5.53%) Computer Science
13 47 (5.41%) Configuration Management
14 46 (5.30%) Unit Testing
15 45 (5.18%) Collaborative Working
16 41 (4.72%) OO
17 40 (4.61%) Multithreading
18 39 (4.49%) Containerisation
18 39 (4.49%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 248 (28.57%) Python
2 193 (22.24%) JavaScript
3 185 (21.31%) Java
4 181 (20.85%) C++
5 157 (18.09%) C
6 131 (15.09%) C#
7 75 (8.64%) Bash
8 59 (6.80%) Embedded C
8 59 (6.80%) Rust
9 52 (5.99%) TypeScript
10 46 (5.30%) SQL
11 34 (3.92%) Ada
12 21 (2.42%) MATLAB
13 18 (2.07%) Perl
14 14 (1.61%) PHP
15 10 (1.15%) Swift
16 9 (1.04%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.04%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.92%) Go
18 7 (0.81%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 250 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.41%) Degree
3 79 (9.10%) DV Cleared
4 71 (8.18%) SC Cleared
5 36 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.35%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.35%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.23%) HND
9 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.53%) QA
2 12 (1.38%) PMO
3 9 (1.04%) Def Stans
4 7 (0.81%) MISRA
5 6 (0.69%) IEC 61508
6 5 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.58%) TickIT
7 4 (0.46%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.23%) GDPR
9 1 (0.12%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 45 (5.18%) Docker
2 12 (1.38%) Firmware
3 9 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.11%) Terraform
3 22 (2.53%) Ansible
4 16 (1.84%) Puppet
5 4 (0.46%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.23%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.12%) Grafana
Vendors
1 41 (4.72%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.11%) ESRI
3 24 (2.76%) Google
4 19 (2.19%) Red Hat
5 16 (1.84%) SaltStack
6 14 (1.61%) Oracle
7 8 (0.92%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.69%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.58%) SAP
10 4 (0.46%) Xamarin
11 3 (0.35%) Samsung
11 3 (0.35%) SmartStream
12 2 (0.23%) IBM
12 2 (0.23%) Keysight
12 2 (0.23%) Kofax
12 2 (0.23%) Pega
12 2 (0.23%) Xilinx
12 2 (0.23%) Zoho
13 1 (0.12%) Sitecore
13 1 (0.12%) VMware