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South West career opportunity guide

Use this page to compare graduate and broader career prospects in South West, including broad salary ranges, stronger industries, example roles, and CV positioning advice.

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Location snapshot

Graduate score

44

Career score

46

South West, United Kingdom

Graduate Map view

South West graduate prospects

Salary range

£29k–£36k

Opportunity score

44/100

Salary band reference

ONS ASHE occupation-by-region earnings release

2025 data, published in the 21 November 2025 provisional release · South West, South West

Modern CV uses a role-weighted regional earnings estimate from checked-in occupation rows because a matching combined-authority percentile table is not published for this geography. Graduate Map bands use a moderated entry-level proxy derived from that regional median.

Top industries: Healthcare, Tourism, Retail, Professional Services

Example roles: Junior Developer, Graduate Engineer, Operations Assistant, Marketing Assistant

Score maths

Formula: final score = sum of each component's normalised value × its weight.

CV tip

Bring practical project evidence forward and keep the CV lean enough to feel focused and easy to scan.

Career Map view

South West wider career market

Salary range

£40k–£44k

Opportunity score

46/100

Salary band reference

ONS ASHE occupation-by-region earnings release

2025 data, published in the 21 November 2025 provisional release · South West, South West

Modern CV uses a role-weighted regional earnings estimate from checked-in occupation rows because a matching combined-authority percentile table is not published for this geography. Career Map bands use the weighted median and weighted mean as a broad regional range.

Top industries: Tourism, Retail, Professional Services, Healthcare

Example roles: Software Developer, Systems Engineer, Operations Manager, Project Consultant

Score maths

Formula: final score = sum of each component's normalised value × its weight.

CV tip

Show depth where it matters, especially technical tools, client work, and cross-functional delivery evidence.

Data sources and methodology

Career opportunity scores and salary ranges are editorial estimates derived from public labour market datasets and curated role research. They are not live job counts and should be treated as indicative.

This location dataset was refreshed against current official source pages reviewed on 2026-04-26. For expanded UK coverage, salary bands and most score inputs are derived from checked-in ONS ASHE earnings files, while UK industry themes are derived from the official ONS BRES region-by-broad-industry workbook and then lightly grouped by Modern CV into reader-friendly labels.

What comes from where

  • Official source-backed: the salary reference, most UK score inputs, and UK broad-industry inputs come from checked-in ONS releases.
  • Derived by Modern CV: the final score, salary band, and UK display industry labels are calculated or grouped from those source files and rounded for readability.
  • Editorial by Modern CV: example roles, CV tips, and Europe-side industry summaries are guidance content rather than official statistics.

ONS BRES region by broad industry group, 2024 provisional

Top UK industry themes for South West are derived from the official ONS BRES 2024 provisional region-by-broad-industry table for South West, then lightly grouped by Modern CV into reader-friendly labels.

Office for National Statistics content reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 where applicable.

ONS ASHE occupation and region earnings, 2025 provisional

Current UK map coverage for South West is driven by checked-in ONS occupation-by-region earnings rows, aggregated by Modern CV into a wider regional estimate because a matching combined-authority percentile table is not published for this geography.

Office for National Statistics content reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 where applicable.

Office for Students student outcomes data dashboard

Retained in the project as the official graduate outcomes source for future provider-level expansion. Current UK graduate-map scores rely primarily on checked-in ONS earnings and jobs-volume proxies where city-level graduate outcomes are not published in a matching geography.

Office for Students official statistics, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated.

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