Software Engineering Jobs in the South West

Software Engineering
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 19 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,240 744 1,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.23% 11.13% 15.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.95% 11.78% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 944 436 706
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,475 £59,732
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% +4.59% +13.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,647 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.97% +3.78% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,774 6,314 7,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 82.96% 94.49% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,600 3,501 4,988
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +6.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,750 £66,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the South West

Software Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +9 445 £57,500 -12.01% 110
Gloucestershire +10 327 £55,000 -15.38% 30
Dorset +17 197 £57,500 +15.00% 25
Wiltshire +13 116 £55,000 -21.43% 14
Devon +17 79 £42,500 -5.56% 21
Somerset +7 48 £50,000 -12.58% 24
Cornwall -15 6 £80,000 +190.91% 3
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 88 (7.10%) Confluence
2 27 (2.18%) Apache
2 27 (2.18%) ArcGIS
2 27 (2.18%) GeoServer
3 20 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.16%) Captiva
5 2 (0.16%) CMS
5 2 (0.16%) FileNet
5 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.081%) JBoss
6 1 (0.081%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.081%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (1.53%) Simulink
2 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.16%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 2 (0.16%) SAP FI-GL
2 1 (0.081%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 233 (18.79%) AWS
2 185 (14.92%) Azure
3 48 (3.87%) GCP
4 43 (3.47%) Serverless
5 36 (2.90%) SaaS
6 32 (2.58%) OpenShift
7 26 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (1.05%) npm
11 12 (0.97%) GitHub
12 9 (0.73%) Amazon S3
12 9 (0.73%) Power Platform
13 8 (0.65%) Azure Functions
13 8 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.40%) Azure Storage
16 4 (0.32%) Azure Pipelines
16 4 (0.32%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.77%) AMQP
2 13 (1.05%) Internet
3 10 (0.81%) HTTP
3 10 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (0.65%) Bluetooth
4 8 (0.65%) DNS
4 8 (0.65%) SMTP
4 8 (0.65%) Wireless
5 5 (0.40%) Ethernet
5 5 (0.40%) Network Security
5 5 (0.40%) RS-232
6 4 (0.32%) ZigBee
7 2 (0.16%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.16%) 5G
7 2 (0.16%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.081%) OFDM
8 1 (0.081%) RS-422
8 1 (0.081%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.081%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 61 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (2.66%) MySQL
4 29 (2.34%) Big Data
4 29 (2.34%) Relational Database
5 27 (2.18%) GIS
5 27 (2.18%) QGIS
6 21 (1.69%) Hadoop
7 16 (1.29%) Cloudera CDH
8 11 (0.89%) MongoDB
8 11 (0.89%) SQLite
9 9 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.65%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.65%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.56%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.48%) Power BI
13 5 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 186 (15.00%) Git
2 122 (9.84%) Visual Studio
3 108 (8.71%) JIRA
4 89 (7.18%) Bitbucket
5 59 (4.76%) Sourcetree
6 52 (4.19%) Jenkins
7 26 (2.10%) Subversion
8 23 (1.85%) LabVIEW
9 21 (1.69%) GitLab
10 18 (1.45%) Rational Rhapsody
11 13 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
12 12 (0.97%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.89%) Eclipse
14 10 (0.81%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.81%) Selenium
15 9 (0.73%) Storybook
16 8 (0.65%) NetBeans
16 8 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
17 6 (0.48%) Maven
17 6 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 140 (11.29%) Social Skills
2 112 (9.03%) Finance
3 90 (7.26%) Presentation Skills
4 82 (6.61%) Games
5 76 (6.13%) Aerospace
6 66 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
7 60 (4.84%) Manufacturing
8 43 (3.47%) Banking
9 42 (3.39%) Retail
10 40 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (3.15%) Marketing
12 37 (2.98%) Electronics
13 33 (2.66%) Automotive
14 29 (2.34%) Aviation
15 23 (1.85%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.69%) Public Sector
17 17 (1.37%) Military
18 15 (1.21%) Law
19 14 (1.13%) Financial Institution
20 12 (0.97%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 863 (69.60%) Software Engineer
2 380 (30.65%) Senior
3 297 (23.95%) Senior Software Engineer
4 234 (18.87%) Developer
5 200 (16.13%) Embedded Engineer
6 196 (15.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 85 (6.85%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 83 (6.69%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 79 (6.37%) 3D Developer
9 79 (6.37%) Games Developer
9 79 (6.37%) Unity 3D Developer
10 76 (6.13%) Lead
11 73 (5.89%) C++ Software Engineer
12 61 (4.92%) Software Developer
13 59 (4.76%) Senior Developer
14 49 (3.95%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 46 (3.71%) Lead Software Engineer
16 39 (3.15%) Java Engineer
17 38 (3.06%) Embedded C++ Engineer
17 38 (3.06%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (13.79%) .NET
1 171 (13.79%) React
2 100 (8.06%) AngularJS
3 79 (6.37%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 77 (6.21%) Node.js
5 74 (5.97%) .NET Core
5 74 (5.97%) CSS
6 67 (5.40%) Spring
7 61 (4.92%) Spring Boot
8 52 (4.19%) HTML
9 50 (4.03%) REST
10 46 (3.71%) Vue
11 44 (3.55%) .NET Framework
12 31 (2.50%) Laravel
13 29 (2.34%) ASP.NET
13 29 (2.34%) Swagger
14 28 (2.26%) Kafka
14 28 (2.26%) RESTful
15 27 (2.18%) Leaflet
15 27 (2.18%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.37%) Virtual Reality
2 60 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 35 (2.82%) Embedded Systems
5 31 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 26 (2.10%) Algorithms
7 24 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 23 (1.85%) IoT
9 20 (1.61%) GNSS
9 20 (1.61%) Private Cloud
10 17 (1.37%) Robotics
11 15 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
13 12 (0.97%) FPGA
14 11 (0.89%) Device Driver
14 11 (0.89%) Driving Licence
15 10 (0.81%) Hackathon
15 10 (0.81%) Public Cloud
16 9 (0.73%) Client/Server
16 9 (0.73%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 216 (17.42%) Linux
2 110 (8.87%) Windows
3 65 (5.24%) Embedded Linux
4 31 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 25 (2.02%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.85%) Android
7 17 (1.37%) Debian
8 16 (1.29%) CentOS
8 16 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.89%) Unix
10 5 (0.40%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.24%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 2 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.081%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.081%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (28.23%) Agile
2 222 (17.90%) DevOps
3 199 (16.05%) Scrum
4 186 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (9.92%) UML
6 119 (9.60%) CI/CD
7 115 (9.27%) Design Patterns
8 104 (8.39%) Full Stack Development
9 97 (7.82%) SDLC
10 93 (7.50%) Microservices
11 89 (7.18%) Computer Science
11 89 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
12 82 (6.61%) Actionable Insight
13 79 (6.37%) Use Case
14 66 (5.32%) Web Development
15 65 (5.24%) Continuous Integration
16 61 (4.92%) Mentoring
16 61 (4.92%) Open Source
17 60 (4.84%) Containerisation
18 58 (4.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 320 (25.81%) Python
2 280 (22.58%) C#
3 264 (21.29%) Java
4 239 (19.27%) JavaScript
5 211 (17.02%) C++
6 190 (15.32%) C
7 91 (7.34%) SQL
8 86 (6.94%) Bash
9 80 (6.45%) TypeScript
10 65 (5.24%) Rust
11 63 (5.08%) Embedded C
12 42 (3.39%) PHP
13 40 (3.23%) Ada
14 25 (2.02%) MATLAB
15 19 (1.53%) Go
15 19 (1.53%) Perl
16 16 (1.29%) Shell Script
16 16 (1.29%) T-SQL
17 10 (0.81%) Swift
18 9 (0.73%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 390 (31.45%) Security Cleared
2 245 (19.76%) Degree
3 191 (15.40%) SC Cleared
4 118 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 92 (7.42%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.13%) ISTQB
8 9 (0.73%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.40%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.24%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.24%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.16%) HND
12 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (1.85%) QA
2 20 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 17 (1.37%) Def Stans
4 16 (1.29%) IEC 61508
5 12 (0.97%) PMO
6 7 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.56%) MISRA
7 6 (0.48%) TickIT
8 5 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.32%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.16%) DO-254
10 2 (0.16%) GDPR
10 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.16%) SLA
11 1 (0.081%) AQAP
11 1 (0.081%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.081%) SEPA
System Software
1 92 (7.42%) Docker
2 23 (1.85%) Firmware
3 17 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.32%) NFS
6 4 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 91 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 47 (3.79%) Terraform
3 43 (3.47%) Ansible
4 16 (1.29%) Puppet
5 10 (0.81%) Grafana
6 9 (0.73%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.32%) Functional Safety
8 4 (0.32%) Nagios
9 2 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 149 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.26%) ESRI
2 28 (2.26%) Google
3 27 (2.18%) Xamarin
4 26 (2.10%) Oracle
5 19 (1.53%) Red Hat
6 16 (1.29%) SaltStack
7 12 (0.97%) SAP
8 11 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.56%) Twitter
9 7 (0.56%) VMware
10 6 (0.48%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.32%) IBM
11 4 (0.32%) Teradata
12 3 (0.24%) Coverity
12 3 (0.24%) Samsung
12 3 (0.24%) SmartStream
13 2 (0.16%) Keysight
13 2 (0.16%) Kofax
13 2 (0.16%) Zoho