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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 19 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,264 744 1,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.11% 11.00% 16.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.03% 11.63% 16.86%
Number of salaries quoted 957 425 726
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,450 £59,866
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% +4.32% +14.03%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £73,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.97% +5.00% +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 7,886 6,399 7,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.81% 94.60% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,675 3,521 5,035
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,294 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% +8.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £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 26 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 26 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 +9 446 £57,500 -12.01% 106
Gloucestershire +11 325 £55,000 -15.38% 39
Dorset +23 206 £57,500 +15.00% 29
Wiltshire +15 123 £55,000 -21.43% 16
Devon +25 83 £42,500 -5.56% 22
Somerset +3 48 £55,000 -3.84% 25
Cornwall -11 7 £80,000 +190.91% 1
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 84 (6.65%) Confluence
2 28 (2.22%) Apache
3 27 (2.14%) ArcGIS
3 27 (2.14%) GeoServer
4 21 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.32%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.079%) JBoss
7 1 (0.079%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.079%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (1.50%) Simulink
2 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.16%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 1 (0.079%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 231 (18.28%) AWS
2 182 (14.40%) Azure
3 42 (3.32%) GCP
3 42 (3.32%) Serverless
4 31 (2.45%) OpenShift
4 31 (2.45%) SaaS
5 26 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (0.95%) npm
9 11 (0.87%) GitHub
10 9 (0.71%) Amazon S3
10 9 (0.71%) Power Platform
11 8 (0.63%) Azure Functions
11 8 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.40%) Azure Storage
14 4 (0.32%) Azure Pipelines
14 4 (0.32%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.82%) AMQP
2 13 (1.03%) Internet
3 10 (0.79%) HTTP
3 10 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (0.63%) Bluetooth
4 8 (0.63%) DNS
4 8 (0.63%) SMTP
4 8 (0.63%) 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
8 1 (0.079%) OFDM
8 1 (0.079%) RS-422
8 1 (0.079%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.079%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.079%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (4.59%) SQL Server
3 33 (2.61%) MySQL
4 30 (2.37%) Relational Database
5 28 (2.22%) Big Data
6 27 (2.14%) GIS
6 27 (2.14%) QGIS
7 22 (1.74%) Hadoop
8 17 (1.34%) Cloudera CDH
9 11 (0.87%) SQLite
10 9 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.63%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.47%) Power BI
13 5 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.40%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.40%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.32%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 177 (14.00%) Git
2 119 (9.41%) Visual Studio
3 103 (8.15%) JIRA
4 86 (6.80%) Bitbucket
5 59 (4.67%) Sourcetree
6 46 (3.64%) Jenkins
7 26 (2.06%) Subversion
8 24 (1.90%) LabVIEW
9 22 (1.74%) GitLab
10 18 (1.42%) Rational Rhapsody
11 11 (0.87%) Eclipse
12 9 (0.71%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.71%) Storybook
13 8 (0.63%) NetBeans
13 8 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
14 7 (0.55%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
14 7 (0.55%) Selenium
15 6 (0.47%) MSTest
15 6 (0.47%) NUnit
General
1 139 (11.00%) Social Skills
2 104 (8.23%) Finance
3 87 (6.88%) Presentation Skills
4 81 (6.41%) Aerospace
5 79 (6.25%) Games
6 67 (5.30%) Manufacturing
7 65 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (3.40%) Retail
9 41 (3.24%) Electronics
10 39 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (3.09%) Marketing
11 34 (2.69%) Banking
12 33 (2.61%) Automotive
13 29 (2.29%) Aviation
14 23 (1.82%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.58%) Public Sector
16 17 (1.34%) Military
17 15 (1.19%) Law
18 14 (1.11%) Financial Institution
19 13 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 895 (70.81%) Software Engineer
2 389 (30.78%) Senior
3 306 (24.21%) Senior Software Engineer
4 225 (17.80%) Developer
5 212 (16.77%) Embedded Engineer
6 208 (16.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 90 (7.12%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 88 (6.96%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 79 (6.25%) Lead
10 77 (6.09%) C++ Software Engineer
11 76 (6.01%) 3D Developer
11 76 (6.01%) Games Developer
11 76 (6.01%) Unity 3D Developer
12 58 (4.59%) Senior Developer
13 57 (4.51%) Software Developer
14 53 (4.19%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 48 (3.80%) Lead Software Engineer
16 42 (3.32%) Java Engineer
17 38 (3.01%) Embedded C++ Engineer
17 38 (3.01%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (13.45%) .NET
2 168 (13.29%) React
3 99 (7.83%) AngularJS
4 77 (6.09%) Node.js
5 76 (6.01%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 75 (5.93%) .NET Core
7 72 (5.70%) CSS
8 66 (5.22%) Spring
9 60 (4.75%) Spring Boot
10 53 (4.19%) REST
11 51 (4.03%) HTML
12 48 (3.80%) Vue
13 44 (3.48%) .NET Framework
14 30 (2.37%) Laravel
14 30 (2.37%) Swagger
15 29 (2.29%) ASP.NET
16 28 (2.22%) Kafka
17 27 (2.14%) Leaflet
17 27 (2.14%) PostGIS
17 27 (2.14%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 76 (6.01%) Virtual Reality
2 59 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
3 43 (3.40%) Cloud Native
4 34 (2.69%) Embedded Systems
5 31 (2.45%) Mobile App
6 26 (2.06%) Algorithms
7 23 (1.82%) IoT
8 21 (1.66%) Product Ownership
9 20 (1.58%) GNSS
10 19 (1.50%) Private Cloud
11 17 (1.34%) Robotics
12 14 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
13 12 (0.95%) FPGA
14 11 (0.87%) Device Driver
14 11 (0.87%) Driving Licence
15 10 (0.79%) Hackathon
16 9 (0.71%) Client/Server
16 9 (0.71%) PMI
17 8 (0.63%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 216 (17.09%) Linux
2 113 (8.94%) Windows
3 65 (5.14%) Embedded Linux
4 32 (2.53%) Ubuntu
5 23 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.66%) Android
7 19 (1.50%) Debian
8 17 (1.34%) CentOS
8 17 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.71%) Unix
10 5 (0.40%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.24%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 2 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.079%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.079%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (27.29%) Agile
2 215 (17.01%) DevOps
3 196 (15.51%) Scrum
4 180 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
5 121 (9.57%) UML
6 118 (9.34%) CI/CD
7 112 (8.86%) Design Patterns
8 105 (8.31%) Full Stack Development
9 98 (7.75%) SDLC
10 93 (7.36%) Microservices
11 89 (7.04%) Computer Science
12 84 (6.65%) Cybersecurity
13 81 (6.41%) Actionable Insight
14 76 (6.01%) Use Case
15 66 (5.22%) Web Development
16 62 (4.91%) Mentoring
17 61 (4.83%) Containerisation
17 61 (4.83%) Continuous Integration
17 61 (4.83%) Open Source
18 59 (4.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 323 (25.55%) Python
2 278 (21.99%) C#
3 263 (20.81%) Java
4 237 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 211 (16.69%) C++
6 189 (14.95%) C
7 86 (6.80%) Bash
8 84 (6.65%) SQL
9 83 (6.57%) TypeScript
10 63 (4.98%) Embedded C
10 63 (4.98%) Rust
11 41 (3.24%) PHP
12 40 (3.16%) Ada
13 25 (1.98%) MATLAB
14 19 (1.50%) Perl
15 18 (1.42%) Go
16 16 (1.27%) Shell Script
16 16 (1.27%) T-SQL
17 10 (0.79%) Swift
18 8 (0.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 394 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 243 (19.22%) Degree
3 192 (15.19%) SC Cleared
4 115 (9.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 96 (7.59%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.11%) ISTQB
8 9 (0.71%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.47%) 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 (0.079%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (1.74%) QA
2 17 (1.34%) Def Stans
2 17 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 16 (1.27%) IEC 61508
4 12 (0.95%) PMO
5 7 (0.55%) MISRA
6 6 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.47%) TickIT
7 5 (0.40%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.32%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.16%) DO-254
9 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 1 (0.079%) AQAP
10 1 (0.079%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.079%) SEPA
10 1 (0.079%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (6.80%) Docker
2 23 (1.82%) Firmware
3 17 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.55%) 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 89 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 48 (3.80%) Terraform
3 43 (3.40%) Ansible
4 17 (1.34%) Puppet
5 11 (0.87%) Grafana
6 9 (0.71%) 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
1 146 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.22%) ESRI
3 27 (2.14%) Xamarin
4 25 (1.98%) Google
5 20 (1.58%) Red Hat
6 19 (1.50%) Oracle
7 17 (1.34%) SaltStack
8 11 (0.87%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.63%) SAP
10 7 (0.55%) Twitter
10 7 (0.55%) VMware
11 4 (0.32%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.32%) Teradata
12 3 (0.24%) Coverity
12 3 (0.24%) Samsung
12 3 (0.24%) SmartStream
13 2 (0.16%) Cognizant
13 2 (0.16%) IBM
13 2 (0.16%) Keysight
13 2 (0.16%) Zoho