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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 21 10
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,370 668 1,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.21% 10.28% 16.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.48% 10.87% 17.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,011 387 755
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,918
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,450 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% +4.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +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 8,314 6,144 8,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 80.15% 94.60% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,890 3,499 5,021
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,186 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,700 £66,250
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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +12 477 £57,500 -12.01% 91
Gloucestershire +13 339 £55,000 -15.38% 48
Dorset +27 225 £57,500 +15.00% 34
Wiltshire +16 138 £55,000 -21.43% 11
Devon +30 101 £45,000 - 27
Somerset 0 53 £55,000 -1.96% 19
Cornwall -13 8 £80,000 +190.91% 2
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 67 (4.89%) Confluence
2 28 (2.04%) Apache
3 26 (1.90%) ArcGIS
3 26 (1.90%) GeoServer
4 22 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.15%) CMS
7 1 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.073%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (1.39%) Simulink
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 1 (0.073%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 234 (17.08%) AWS
2 191 (13.94%) Azure
3 46 (3.36%) GCP
4 41 (2.99%) Serverless
5 32 (2.34%) OpenShift
6 28 (2.04%) SaaS
7 27 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (0.88%) npm
10 10 (0.73%) GitHub
11 9 (0.66%) Amazon S3
11 9 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (0.66%) Power Platform
12 8 (0.58%) Azure Functions
13 6 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.36%) Azure Storage
15 4 (0.29%) Azure Pipelines
15 4 (0.29%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.75%) AMQP
2 13 (0.95%) Internet
3 11 (0.80%) HTTP
4 10 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.66%) Network Security
6 8 (0.58%) Bluetooth
6 8 (0.58%) DNS
6 8 (0.58%) SMTP
6 8 (0.58%) Wireless
7 5 (0.36%) Ethernet
7 5 (0.36%) RS-232
8 4 (0.29%) ZigBee
9 2 (0.15%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.15%) 5G
10 1 (0.073%) OFDM
10 1 (0.073%) PPP
10 1 (0.073%) RS-422
10 1 (0.073%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.073%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (4.23%) SQL Server
3 32 (2.34%) MySQL
4 30 (2.19%) Big Data
5 29 (2.12%) Relational Database
6 26 (1.90%) GIS
6 26 (1.90%) QGIS
7 23 (1.68%) Hadoop
8 18 (1.31%) Cloudera CDH
9 11 (0.80%) SQLite
10 9 (0.66%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.58%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.44%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.44%) Power BI
13 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.36%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 162 (11.82%) Git
2 103 (7.52%) Visual Studio
3 86 (6.28%) JIRA
4 70 (5.11%) Bitbucket
5 59 (4.31%) Sourcetree
6 46 (3.36%) Jenkins
7 29 (2.12%) LabVIEW
8 25 (1.82%) Subversion
9 24 (1.75%) GitLab
10 17 (1.24%) Rational Rhapsody
11 11 (0.80%) Eclipse
12 10 (0.73%) NetBeans
12 10 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
13 9 (0.66%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.66%) Storybook
14 8 (0.58%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.51%) MSTest
15 7 (0.51%) NUnit
15 7 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
15 7 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 142 (10.36%) Social Skills
2 106 (7.74%) Finance
3 87 (6.35%) Aerospace
4 82 (5.99%) Manufacturing
5 70 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
6 64 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (4.60%) Games
8 56 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (3.87%) Electronics
10 46 (3.36%) Retail
11 40 (2.92%) Marketing
12 35 (2.55%) Automotive
13 33 (2.41%) Banking
14 28 (2.04%) Aviation
15 24 (1.75%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.53%) Military
17 19 (1.39%) Public Sector
18 16 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
19 14 (1.02%) Financial Institution
19 14 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 998 (72.85%) Software Engineer
2 427 (31.17%) Senior
3 335 (24.45%) Senior Software Engineer
4 242 (17.66%) Embedded Engineer
5 238 (17.37%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 208 (15.18%) Developer
7 107 (7.81%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 105 (7.66%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 92 (6.72%) Lead
10 86 (6.28%) C++ Software Engineer
11 59 (4.31%) 3D Developer
11 59 (4.31%) Games Developer
11 59 (4.31%) Senior Developer
11 59 (4.31%) Unity 3D Developer
12 56 (4.09%) Lead Software Engineer
13 55 (4.01%) Software Developer
14 54 (3.94%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 47 (3.43%) Java Engineer
16 40 (2.92%) Java Software Engineer
17 39 (2.85%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (12.77%) React
2 173 (12.63%) .NET
3 101 (7.37%) AngularJS
4 79 (5.77%) Node.js
5 76 (5.55%) .NET Core
6 71 (5.18%) CSS
7 70 (5.11%) Spring
8 64 (4.67%) Spring Boot
9 59 (4.31%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 55 (4.01%) REST
11 54 (3.94%) HTML
12 50 (3.65%) Vue
13 46 (3.36%) .NET Framework
14 31 (2.26%) Swagger
15 30 (2.19%) RESTful
16 29 (2.12%) ASP.NET
17 28 (2.04%) Kafka
17 28 (2.04%) Laravel
18 26 (1.90%) Leaflet
18 26 (1.90%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 59 (4.31%) Virtual Reality
2 58 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (3.07%) Cloud Native
4 34 (2.48%) Embedded Systems
5 31 (2.26%) Mobile App
6 27 (1.97%) Algorithms
7 24 (1.75%) IoT
8 21 (1.53%) GNSS
8 21 (1.53%) Private Cloud
8 21 (1.53%) Product Ownership
9 19 (1.39%) Cyberattack
10 17 (1.24%) Robotics
11 15 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
13 12 (0.88%) FPGA
14 11 (0.80%) Driving Licence
14 11 (0.80%) PMI
15 10 (0.73%) Acoustics
15 10 (0.73%) Client/Server
15 10 (0.73%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 222 (16.20%) Linux
2 116 (8.47%) Windows
3 64 (4.67%) Embedded Linux
4 32 (2.34%) Ubuntu
5 24 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.61%) Android
7 20 (1.46%) Debian
8 18 (1.31%) CentOS
8 18 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.73%) Unix
10 5 (0.36%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.22%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 2 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.073%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.073%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (26.79%) Agile
2 215 (15.69%) DevOps
3 193 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
4 182 (13.28%) Scrum
5 118 (8.61%) CI/CD
6 109 (7.96%) Full Stack Development
7 108 (7.88%) SDLC
7 108 (7.88%) UML
8 96 (7.01%) Microservices
9 93 (6.79%) Design Patterns
10 91 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
11 86 (6.28%) Computer Science
12 82 (5.99%) Mentoring
13 77 (5.62%) Actionable Insight
14 66 (4.82%) Continuous Integration
15 65 (4.74%) Machine Learning
15 65 (4.74%) Web Development
16 61 (4.45%) Containerisation
16 61 (4.45%) Open Source
17 60 (4.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 347 (25.33%) Python
2 280 (20.44%) Java
3 265 (19.34%) C#
4 241 (17.59%) JavaScript
5 227 (16.57%) C++
6 198 (14.45%) C
7 93 (6.79%) TypeScript
8 90 (6.57%) Bash
9 87 (6.35%) SQL
10 64 (4.67%) Embedded C
10 64 (4.67%) Rust
11 39 (2.85%) Ada
11 39 (2.85%) PHP
12 28 (2.04%) MATLAB
13 23 (1.68%) Perl
14 18 (1.31%) Go
15 16 (1.17%) Shell Script
15 16 (1.17%) T-SQL
16 10 (0.73%) Swift
17 8 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 391 (28.54%) Security Cleared
2 232 (16.93%) Degree
3 182 (13.28%) SC Cleared
4 105 (7.66%) DV Cleared
5 98 (7.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.02%) ISTQB
8 11 (0.80%) PMI Certification
9 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.15%) HND
12 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (1.53%) Def Stans
2 20 (1.46%) IEC 61508
2 20 (1.46%) QA
3 12 (0.88%) PMO
4 7 (0.51%) ISO 9001
4 7 (0.51%) MISRA
4 7 (0.51%) TickIT
5 6 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.29%) DO-254
6 4 (0.29%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.073%) AQAP
8 1 (0.073%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.073%) SEPA
System Software
1 89 (6.50%) Docker
2 24 (1.75%) Firmware
3 17 (1.24%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.29%) NFS
5 4 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 94 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 50 (3.65%) Terraform
3 46 (3.36%) Ansible
4 18 (1.31%) Puppet
5 11 (0.80%) Grafana
6 9 (0.66%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.44%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 128 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.97%) ESRI
2 27 (1.97%) Xamarin
3 26 (1.90%) Google
4 21 (1.53%) Red Hat
5 18 (1.31%) SaltStack
6 16 (1.17%) Oracle
7 13 (0.95%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.58%) SAP
9 6 (0.44%) Twitter
10 5 (0.36%) VMware
11 4 (0.29%) Cognizant
11 4 (0.29%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.29%) Teradata
12 3 (0.22%) Coverity
12 3 (0.22%) Samsung
12 3 (0.22%) SmartStream
13 2 (0.15%) IBM
13 2 (0.15%) Keysight
13 2 (0.15%) Xilinx