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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,409 966 1,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.17% 14.32% 24.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.77% 16.07% 25.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 689 1,431
10th Percentile £32,175 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £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 £61,040
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.49% +10.98%

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 8,935 6,012 7,761
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 89.09% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6,536 3,754 5,120
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £29,488
25th Percentile £36,336 £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 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 10 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 10 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 +4 480 £58,000 +0.87% 86
Gloucestershire +11 266 £50,000 -9.09% 16
Devon +11 204 £45,000 - 33
Dorset -4 167 £50,000 -4.76% 19
Wiltshire +1 144 £47,500 -6.86% 11
Somerset +5 103 £48,750 -11.36% 30
Cornwall -1 18 £45,000 +9.09% 5
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 511 (36.27%) JavaScript
2 468 (33.22%) C#
3 419 (29.74%) .NET
4 391 (27.75%) Agile
5 341 (24.20%) Full Stack Development
6 335 (23.78%) Microsoft
7 333 (23.63%) HTML
8 326 (23.14%) Azure
9 311 (22.07%) CSS
9 311 (22.07%) React
10 278 (19.73%) DevOps
11 262 (18.59%) Git
12 249 (17.67%) Social Skills
13 242 (17.18%) Software Engineering
14 226 (16.04%) Scrum
15 224 (15.90%) SQL
15 224 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
16 223 (15.83%) Degree
17 221 (15.68%) MVC
18 219 (15.54%) AWS
19 214 (15.19%) SQL Server
20 209 (14.83%) PHP
21 193 (13.70%) AngularJS
22 188 (13.34%) Java
22 188 (13.34%) ASP.NET
22 188 (13.34%) TypeScript
23 173 (12.28%) Security Cleared
24 158 (11.21%) Design Patterns
25 154 (10.93%) Vue
26 146 (10.36%) MySQL

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 96 (6.81%) Confluence
2 55 (3.90%) WordPress
3 44 (3.12%) CMS
4 31 (2.20%) Umbraco
5 24 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.56%) IIS
7 19 (1.35%) Headless CMS
8 18 (1.28%) Apache
9 17 (1.21%) Kentico
9 17 (1.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.28%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.21%) Drupal
11 3 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.21%) SAS
11 3 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
11 3 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.14%) Mule
13 1 (0.071%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.71%) InfoPath
3 7 (0.50%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.28%) Simulink
4 4 (0.28%) Stateflow
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.14%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.71%) Maximo
2 9 (0.64%) Shopify
3 7 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.50%) Magento
4 4 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.28%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 326 (23.14%) Azure
2 219 (15.54%) AWS
3 111 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
4 94 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 59 (4.19%) PowerApps
6 55 (3.90%) Power Automate
7 54 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (3.05%) SaaS
9 35 (2.48%) GitHub
10 31 (2.20%) GCP
11 27 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (1.21%) Kontent
13 15 (1.06%) Serverless
14 14 (0.99%) Firebase
14 14 (0.99%) npm
15 10 (0.71%) Figma
16 8 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (0.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 6 (0.43%) Google Play
18 5 (0.35%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.77%) Internet
2 16 (1.14%) HTTP
3 15 (1.06%) DNS
4 12 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.71%) WAN
6 9 (0.64%) SMTP
7 8 (0.57%) 5G
7 8 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.50%) SSL
8 7 (0.50%) VoIP
9 6 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.21%) Firewall
11 2 (0.14%) LAN
11 2 (0.14%) VPN
11 2 (0.14%) Wireless
12 1 (0.071%) DHCP
12 1 (0.071%) FTP
12 1 (0.071%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (15.19%) SQL Server
2 146 (10.36%) MySQL
3 65 (4.61%) Power BI
4 58 (4.12%) NoSQL
5 37 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (2.56%) MongoDB
7 28 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 22 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (1.42%) GIS
10 19 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (0.99%) Oracle Database
13 11 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (0.71%) Redis
15 9 (0.64%) Oracle Database 11g
15 9 (0.64%) Tableau
16 8 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
17 7 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
18 5 (0.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 262 (18.59%) Git
2 116 (8.23%) JIRA
3 115 (8.16%) Visual Studio
4 98 (6.96%) Bitbucket
5 59 (4.19%) Sourcetree
6 23 (1.63%) Jenkins
7 22 (1.56%) GitLab
8 16 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 12 (0.85%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.64%) Storybook
11 8 (0.57%) Selenium
11 8 (0.57%) webpack
12 7 (0.50%) Subversion
13 6 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.43%) Maven
13 6 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
14 4 (0.28%) Gradle
15 3 (0.21%) Moq
15 3 (0.21%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.21%) xUnit.net
General
1 249 (17.67%) Social Skills
2 112 (7.95%) Games
3 107 (7.59%) Finance
3 107 (7.59%) Presentation Skills
4 82 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.48%) Fire and Rescue
6 43 (3.05%) Retail
7 37 (2.63%) Marketing
8 33 (2.34%) Tech for Good
9 22 (1.56%) Public Sector
10 21 (1.49%) Electronics
11 17 (1.21%) Legal
12 16 (1.14%) Advertising
13 14 (0.99%) Aviation
14 13 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (0.92%) Publishing
15 12 (0.85%) Banking
15 12 (0.85%) Law
16 11 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 419 (29.74%) .NET
2 333 (23.63%) HTML
3 311 (22.07%) CSS
3 311 (22.07%) React
4 193 (13.70%) AngularJS
5 188 (13.34%) ASP.NET
6 154 (10.93%) Vue
7 139 (9.87%) .NET Core
7 139 (9.87%) .NET Framework
8 129 (9.16%) Laravel
9 103 (7.31%) Entity Framework
10 96 (6.81%) Unity (Game Engine)
11 91 (6.46%) Node.js
12 86 (6.10%) ASP.NET MVC
13 83 (5.89%) jQuery
14 70 (4.97%) REST
15 69 (4.90%) HTML5
16 68 (4.83%) RESTful
17 57 (4.05%) Blazor
18 55 (3.90%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 95 (6.74%) Virtual Reality
2 44 (3.12%) Mobile App
3 42 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 27 (1.92%) IoT
6 21 (1.49%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.49%) Private Cloud
7 19 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.21%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.14%) GNSS
10 14 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (0.78%) Animation
12 10 (0.71%) Tandem
13 9 (0.64%) FPGA
13 9 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (0.64%) Social Network
13 9 (0.64%) VHDL
14 8 (0.57%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.57%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.26%) Android
2 54 (3.83%) Windows
3 53 (3.76%) Linux
4 41 (2.91%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.57%) Unix
6 5 (0.35%) Windows Mobile
7 4 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (27.75%) Agile
2 341 (24.20%) Full Stack Development
3 278 (19.73%) DevOps
4 242 (17.18%) Software Engineering
5 226 (16.04%) Scrum
6 224 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
7 221 (15.68%) MVC
8 158 (11.21%) Design Patterns
9 136 (9.65%) CI/CD
10 134 (9.51%) Web Development
11 122 (8.66%) Microservices
12 116 (8.23%) User Experience
13 108 (7.67%) Mentoring
14 105 (7.45%) Front End Development
15 93 (6.60%) UML
16 87 (6.17%) Use Case
17 82 (5.82%) Computer Science
18 80 (5.68%) OOP
19 76 (5.39%) Business Intelligence
20 72 (5.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 511 (36.27%) JavaScript
2 468 (33.22%) C#
3 224 (15.90%) SQL
4 209 (14.83%) PHP
5 188 (13.34%) Java
5 188 (13.34%) TypeScript
6 100 (7.10%) Python
7 46 (3.26%) C++
8 32 (2.27%) C
9 29 (2.06%) Kotlin
10 27 (1.92%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.85%) VB.NET
12 19 (1.35%) Swift
13 14 (0.99%) VB
14 13 (0.92%) MATLAB
14 13 (0.92%) PowerShell
14 13 (0.92%) Ruby
14 13 (0.92%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.85%) Ada
16 11 (0.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 223 (15.83%) Degree
2 173 (12.28%) Security Cleared
3 145 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 98 (6.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 47 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.85%) DV Cleared
8 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.35%) PhD
10 4 (0.28%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.21%) MCPD
12 2 (0.14%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.14%) HND
13 1 (0.071%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.071%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.071%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.071%) MCSA
13 1 (0.071%) MCSD
13 1 (0.071%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.071%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (3.41%) QA
2 28 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 11 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.43%) GDPR
5 5 (0.35%) WCAG
6 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.14%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.071%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (6.10%) Docker
2 16 (1.14%) Embedded Firmware
2 16 (1.14%) Firmware
3 1 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 67 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.85%) Ansible
2 12 (0.85%) Terraform
3 7 (0.50%) Kibana
4 1 (0.071%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.071%) Nagios
4 1 (0.071%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.071%) Puppet
4 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 335 (23.78%) Microsoft
2 41 (2.91%) Xamarin
3 38 (2.70%) Google
4 37 (2.63%) Oracle
5 17 (1.21%) Optimizely
5 17 (1.21%) Sitecore
6 9 (0.64%) Apple
6 9 (0.64%) Facebook
7 8 (0.57%) Altera
7 8 (0.57%) Green Hills
7 8 (0.57%) Motorola
7 8 (0.57%) Twitter
7 8 (0.57%) Xilinx
8 7 (0.50%) Adobe
8 7 (0.50%) IBM
8 7 (0.50%) WooCommerce
9 6 (0.43%) Databricks
9 6 (0.43%) UiPath
10 5 (0.35%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.35%) Salesforce