The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Gloucestershire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineer
Rank 23 33 17
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 100 82 122
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 11.31% 6.560% 10.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.72% 6.799% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 86 78 117
Average salary £41,250 £38,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.55% +8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £46,000 £42,900
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
All Job Titles
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
853 1206 1129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 96.49% 96.48% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 762 1032 983
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Engineer
South West

Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Gloucestershire Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Software Engineer Salary Trend

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Gloucestershire Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Software Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheltenham +7 18 £50,000 +31.57%
Tewkesbury +15 17 £30,000 -7.69%
Wotton-under-Edge - 14 £37,500 -
Gloucester +5 11 £38,750 +3.33%
Stroud - 3 £33,000 -
Software Engineer
South West

Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire region that cited Software Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Software Engineer in their job title.

1 148 (80.00%) C++
2 140 (75.68%) C#
3 109 (58.92%) Windows
4 98 (52.97%) Linux
5 87 (47.03%) C
6 84 (45.41%) SQL
7 76 (41.08%) .NET
8 61 (32.97%) Degree
9 60 (32.43%) Security Cleared
10 55 (29.73%) Java
11 50 (27.03%) Aerospace
12 48 (25.95%) Embedded C
12 48 (25.95%) DV Cleared
13 47 (25.41%) XML
14 46 (24.86%) Software Engineering
15 43 (23.24%) Ethernet
16 42 (22.70%) J2EE
17 41 (22.16%) Software Architecture
18 39 (21.08%) UML
19 38 (20.54%) Perl
20 36 (19.46%) Visual Studio
20 36 (19.46%) Military
20 36 (19.46%) SC Cleared
20 36 (19.46%) CAN bus
21 33 (17.84%) JBoss
22 30 (16.22%) Web Development
23 29 (15.68%) VxWorks
24 28 (15.14%) ASP.NET
25 27 (14.59%) SQL Server
25 27 (14.59%) MySQL

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire region that cited Software Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 76 (41.08%) .NET
2 47 (25.41%) XML
3 42 (22.70%) J2EE
4 28 (15.14%) ASP.NET
5 24 (12.97%) HTML
6 20 (10.81%) CSS
7 15 (8.108%) MFC
8 12 (6.486%) WPF
9 9 (4.865%) Web Services
9 9 (4.865%) Qt
10 7 (3.784%) EJB
10 7 (3.784%) Hibernate
10 7 (3.784%) JSF
11 5 (2.703%) SOAP
11 5 (2.703%) jQuery
12 3 (1.622%) WSDL
12 3 (1.622%) OpenGL
12 3 (1.622%) HTML5
12 3 (1.622%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (1.622%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 27 (14.59%) Apache
2 26 (14.05%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.081%) Kentico
3 2 (1.081%) Confluence
3 2 (1.081%) WordPress
3 2 (1.081%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (1.081%) CMS
3 2 (1.081%) IIS
4 1 (0.541%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (1.081%) Simulink
1 2 (1.081%) Stateflow
1 2 (1.081%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.541%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.541%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (1.081%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 43 (23.24%) Ethernet
2 26 (14.05%) SAN
2 26 (14.05%) DHCP
3 9 (4.865%) Firewall
4 7 (3.784%) SMS
5 4 (2.162%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.622%) DNS
6 3 (1.622%) FTP
6 3 (1.622%) HTTP
6 3 (1.622%) POP3
6 3 (1.622%) SMTP
6 3 (1.622%) Internet
6 3 (1.622%) SSH
7 1 (0.541%) LAN
7 1 (0.541%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.59%) SQL Server
1 27 (14.59%) MySQL
2 9 (4.865%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.081%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (1.081%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.081%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.541%) GIS
4 1 (0.541%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 36 (19.46%) Visual Studio
2 9 (4.865%) Rational Rhapsody
3 8 (4.324%) Hudson
3 8 (4.324%) Subversion
4 6 (3.243%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (3.243%) PVCS
5 2 (1.081%) JIRA
6 1 (0.541%) C++Builder
6 1 (0.541%) GDB
General
1 50 (27.03%) Aerospace
2 36 (19.46%) Military
3 23 (12.43%) Electronics
4 13 (7.027%) Marketing
5 4 (2.162%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.081%) Avionics
6 2 (1.081%) Automotive
7 1 (0.541%) Finance
7 1 (0.541%) Advertising
7 1 (0.541%) Mandarin Language
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.46%) CAN bus
2 22 (11.89%) Computer Science
3 20 (10.81%) Mathematics
4 15 (8.108%) Embedded Systems
5 11 (5.946%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (5.946%) iPhone
6 9 (4.865%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.324%) Open Source
8 7 (3.784%) Handset
9 3 (1.622%) VHDL
9 3 (1.622%) Cryptography
9 3 (1.622%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
9 3 (1.622%) Physics
10 2 (1.081%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.541%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.541%) 3D Graphics
11 1 (0.541%) W3C
11 1 (0.541%) CCTV
11 1 (0.541%) Derivative
11 1 (0.541%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 109 (58.92%) Windows
2 98 (52.97%) Linux
3 29 (15.68%) VxWorks
4 26 (14.05%) HPUX
4 26 (14.05%) Solaris
5 20 (10.81%) UNIX
6 11 (5.946%) Android
7 7 (3.784%) Windows Vista
7 7 (3.784%) Apple iOS
8 6 (3.243%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (1.622%) Windows 7
10 2 (1.081%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.541%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (24.86%) Software Engineering
2 41 (22.16%) Software Architecture
3 39 (21.08%) UML
4 30 (16.22%) Web Development
5 26 (14.05%) ITIL
6 17 (9.189%) TDD
7 16 (8.649%) Kanban
7 16 (8.649%) Configuration Management
8 13 (7.027%) Multithreading
9 12 (6.486%) OO
9 12 (6.486%) Scrum
10 11 (5.946%) CRM
10 11 (5.946%) ERP
10 11 (5.946%) Requirements Analysis
10 11 (5.946%) Reverse Engineering
11 10 (5.405%) SysML
12 9 (4.865%) Information Security
12 9 (4.865%) Risk Management
12 9 (4.865%) RUP
12 9 (4.865%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 148 (80.00%) C++
2 140 (75.68%) C#
3 87 (47.03%) C
4 84 (45.41%) SQL
5 55 (29.73%) Java
6 48 (25.95%) Embedded C
7 38 (20.54%) Perl
8 21 (11.35%) T-SQL
9 14 (7.568%) JavaScript
10 10 (5.405%) Bash shell
10 10 (5.405%) Embedded C++
11 9 (4.865%) AWK
11 9 (4.865%) Python
11 9 (4.865%) sed
12 8 (4.324%) VB
12 8 (4.324%) VB.NET
13 7 (3.784%) Assembly Language
13 7 (3.784%) Ruby
14 6 (3.243%) VC++
15 5 (2.703%) Ada
Qualifications
1 61 (32.97%) Degree
2 60 (32.43%) Security Cleared
3 48 (25.95%) DV Cleared
4 36 (19.46%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.784%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.243%) MCP
6 6 (3.243%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.730%) DO-178B
2 10 (5.405%) IEC 61508
2 10 (5.405%) TickIT
3 7 (3.784%) JTAG
System Software
1 26 (14.05%) VMware ESX
1 26 (14.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (14.05%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 33 (17.84%) JBoss
2 26 (14.05%) Cisco
2 26 (14.05%) HP
2 26 (14.05%) Citrix
2 26 (14.05%) NetApp
2 26 (14.05%) Veritas
2 26 (14.05%) Symantec
2 26 (14.05%) VMware
2 26 (14.05%) Brocade
3 22 (11.89%) Microsoft
4 16 (8.649%) Oracle
5 12 (6.486%) Borland
6 7 (3.784%) Symbian
7 3 (1.622%) QNX
7 3 (1.622%) Intel
8 1 (0.541%) Motorola
8 1 (0.541%) Atlassian
Stonehouse, Gloucestershire
Embedded Software Engineer required by our client a cutting edge technology company based in Gloucester. You will be required to design and implement the embedded software that is...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
An excellent opportunity is on offer for a skilled Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer to join an internationally successful defence, security, transport and energy company with a long,...
ComputerWorld Personnel Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + flexible benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Gloucestershire, South West
Essential:4-5 years experienceExperience of C on embedded platformsReal-Time embeddedExperience with 8/16-bit microprocessorsAbility to program to standards, e.g. DO-178B, MISRAAbility to document...
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Bristol, Chippenham, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon,...
C++ Software Engineer / Programmer / Developer, Linux, Multi-threading, Multi-processing, £25-35k dependent on experience, plus benefits, based in Bristol. Key Skills:- C++ software engineering / development experience in...
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £25-35,000 + Bens
Posted: 13 May 2013
Bristol, Chippenham, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon,...
C++ Software Engineer / Programmer / Developer, Linux, Multi-threading, Multi-processing, £25-35k dependent on experience, plus benefits, based in Bristol. Key Skills:- C++ software engineering / development experience in...
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £25-35,000 + Bens
Posted: 13 May 2013
Stroud, South West
Skills required of the Software Engineer (Engineer, HTML, CSS, Java): A strong knowledge of HTML, CSS and Java/JavaScript VB.Net A knowledge of ASP.Net web forms...
greywood
Salary: £28000 - £36000 per annum + bens
Posted: 11 May 2013
Cheltenham, South West
Required Experience Real Time Embedded C for 8,16 and 32 bit microcontrollers including Power PC... Familiarity with C++, C# & .NET frameworks. Familiarity with Operating Systems - DOS, Windows,...
ITS Ingenium
Salary: £0 - £50,000 per year
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Chippenham, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon,...
Graduate C Software Engineer / Programmer / Developer, Linux, Multi-Threading, Multi-Processing, Design Patterns, £25k dependent on experience, plus benefits, based in Bristol. Key Skills:- Computer related degree.- Straight...
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £20-25,000 + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Bristol, Chippenham, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon,...
C Software Engineer / Programmer / Developer, Linux, Multi-Threading, Multi-Processing, £30-35k dependent on experience, plus benefits, based in Frenchay, North Bristol. Key Skills:- Good C Software development /...
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £30-35,000 + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Gloucestershire, South West
Proficient in writing C/C++ code for microcontrollers (including hardware drivers). - Experience of writing Engineering tools in Windows (Win32, MFC, etc.)... Keil MDK, Atlassian etc. - Knowledge of USB,...
Computer Futures
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Pension, Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013
Gloucester, South West
Proficient in writing C/C++ code for microcontrollers (including hardware drivers). - Experience of writing Engineering tools in Windows (Win32, MFC, etc.)... Keil MDK, Atlassian etc. - Knowledge of USB,...
Computer Futures
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Healthcare, Pension
Posted: 15 May 2013
Gloucester, South West
Embedded C/C++ - Ability to take on existing and create new embedded software based on PIC microcontrollers. I have just received instruction from a key client of mine...
Computer Futures
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Pension,
Posted: 15 May 2013
Gloucestershire
In line with growth they are seeking a Senior software engineer with a background in Visual C++... To be considered applicants must have: A proven background in Visual...
G2 Recruitment Solutions Ltd.
Salary: From £35,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Gloucestershire
Keywords: C#, WCF, WPF Commutable from: Stroud, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Hereford, Birmingham Growing software house in the Gloucestershire area requires a number of mid-level/senior C# Developers...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Good Benefits Package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Tewkesbury, South West
In this very varied role, in which learning and adapting will be key assets, CRM, ERP and source control systems will all be touched upon.YouFor your application...
JAM
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Their main industries include but are not restricted to; cash-management and logistics services, electronic security systems and risk management... The Role This role will involve extensive exposure...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
The Role Working alongside the automation test team, you will be tasked with a number of roles including: - Writing C# test automation solutions - Assisting manual testing team - Liaising...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £37000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cheltenham, South West
Technical Skills:*Embedded C/C++ Software Design & Development*Real Time Operating Systems*Network Technologies - Ethernet, TTP or CANbusThe role of Embedded Software Engineer offers a great deal of...
JAM
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Relocation, Pension & Healthcare
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Technical Skills: *Embedded C/C++ Software Design & Development *Real Time Operating Systems *Network Technologies - Ethernet, TTP or CANbus The role of Embedded Software Engineer offers a great deal...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Relocation, Pension & Healthcare
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
In addition to strong Linux skills you will also have skills in at least one of the following: - Solaris, HP UX, Windows, Citrix - VMware, VSphere, ESX VMware, HP...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: up to 46k + excellent benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
The Role Working alongside the test team, you will be tasked with a number of roles including: - Direct software testing (manual or automation scripts provided) - Ensure consistent test...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER - LabVIEW Gloucester £25000 - 30000 A Software Development Engineer with experience in LabVIEW software design and testing... You will be joining a team of experienced and...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £25000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013