Software Engineer Jobs in Gloucestershire

Software Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Software Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £61,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 27 45
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 204 135 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 11.65% 10.76% 6.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.04% 12.68% 6.96%
Number of salaries quoted 138 75 26
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £44,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,375 £82,500 £71,838
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 1,694 1,065 1,236
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.74% 84.86% 97.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,233 507 759
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,625 £62,827
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £71,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Gloucestershire

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Gloucestershire.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Gloucestershire

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Gloucestershire

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Gloucester +3 58 £71,250 +9.62% 4
Cheltenham -4 52 £60,000 -7.69% 16
Berkeley - 8 £30,000 - 1
Tewkesbury -8 6 £52,500 +16.67%
Wotton-under-Edge - 4 £40,000 - 1
Filton - 3 £67,500 -
Software Engineer
South West

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Software Engineer 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 204 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 116 (56.86%) Security Cleared
3 111 (54.41%) Python
4 93 (45.59%) Java
5 88 (43.14%) JavaScript
6 81 (39.71%) AWS
7 76 (37.25%) Agile
8 70 (34.31%) Azure
9 60 (29.41%) Linux
10 55 (26.96%) DV Cleared
11 50 (24.51%) Cybersecurity
11 50 (24.51%) C
12 48 (23.53%) React
13 47 (23.04%) Actionable Insight
13 47 (23.04%) AngularJS
14 44 (21.57%) C++
15 42 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (18.14%) Scrum
17 35 (17.16%) Aerospace
18 33 (16.18%) Spring
18 33 (16.18%) Kubernetes
18 33 (16.18%) Full Stack Development
19 32 (15.69%) Collaborative Working
20 31 (15.20%) Node.js
21 30 (14.71%) Rust
22 27 (13.24%) Bash
22 27 (13.24%) Embedded Linux
23 26 (12.75%) C#
23 26 (12.75%) Embedded C
24 25 (12.25%) Docker

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 24 (11.76%) Apache
2 13 (6.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) GNU Octave
1 2 (0.98%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 81 (39.71%) AWS
2 70 (34.31%) Azure
3 20 (9.80%) GCP
3 20 (9.80%) OpenShift
4 16 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (7.84%) Serverless
5 13 (6.37%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (2.94%) npm
7 3 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.47%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.47%) SaaS
8 1 (0.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.86%) AMQP
2 2 (0.98%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.98%) Wireless
3 1 (0.49%) Internet
3 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.35%) Big Data
2 14 (6.86%) Hadoop
3 13 (6.37%) Cloudera CDH
4 10 (4.90%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.96%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Accumulo
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (5.39%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.92%) Cucumber
2 8 (3.92%) Cypress.io
2 8 (3.92%) Selenium
3 6 (2.94%) Storybook
4 4 (1.96%) Git
5 3 (1.47%) GitLab
6 2 (0.98%) JIRA
6 2 (0.98%) PetaLinux
6 2 (0.98%) TestRail
7 1 (0.49%) GCC
General
1 35 (17.16%) Aerospace
2 15 (7.35%) Manufacturing
3 10 (4.90%) Finance
3 10 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (2.94%) Financial Institution
4 6 (2.94%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (0.49%) Automotive
7 1 (0.49%) Aviation
7 1 (0.49%) Electronics
7 1 (0.49%) Military
7 1 (0.49%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (23.53%) React
2 47 (23.04%) AngularJS
3 33 (16.18%) Spring
4 31 (15.20%) Node.js
5 20 (9.80%) Spring Boot
6 17 (8.33%) OpenAPI
6 17 (8.33%) Swagger
7 14 (6.86%) .NET
7 14 (6.86%) REST
8 13 (6.37%) gRPC
8 13 (6.37%) Material-UI
8 13 (6.37%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (5.39%) Apache NiFi
9 11 (5.39%) STL
10 7 (3.43%) CSS
11 6 (2.94%) Sass
12 5 (2.45%) HTML
13 4 (1.96%) RESTful
13 4 (1.96%) Vue
14 3 (1.47%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.37%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.41%) FPGA
3 3 (1.47%) NHS
3 3 (1.47%) Private Cloud
4 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
4 2 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
4 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.98%) VHDL
5 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 60 (29.41%) Linux
2 27 (13.24%) Embedded Linux
3 13 (6.37%) CentOS
3 13 (6.37%) Debian
3 13 (6.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (6.37%) Ubuntu
4 12 (5.88%) Windows
5 3 (1.47%) Android
6 2 (0.98%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.49%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 76 (37.25%) Agile
3 50 (24.51%) Cybersecurity
4 47 (23.04%) Actionable Insight
5 42 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (18.14%) Scrum
7 33 (16.18%) Full Stack Development
8 32 (15.69%) Collaborative Working
9 23 (11.27%) Containerisation
9 23 (11.27%) Systems Engineering
10 21 (10.29%) DevOps
11 20 (9.80%) Unit Testing
12 18 (8.82%) CI/CD
12 18 (8.82%) SDLC
13 17 (8.33%) Microservices
13 17 (8.33%) Software Architecture
14 16 (7.84%) Configuration Management
14 16 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (7.84%) Open Source
15 14 (6.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 111 (54.41%) Python
2 93 (45.59%) Java
3 88 (43.14%) JavaScript
4 50 (24.51%) C
5 44 (21.57%) C++
6 30 (14.71%) Rust
7 27 (13.24%) Bash
8 26 (12.75%) C#
8 26 (12.75%) Embedded C
9 11 (5.39%) SQL
10 8 (3.92%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.98%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 116 (56.86%) Security Cleared
2 55 (26.96%) DV Cleared
3 20 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 25 (12.25%) Docker
2 9 (4.41%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (4.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.31%) Terraform
3 15 (7.35%) Ansible
4 13 (6.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (6.37%) Google
1 13 (6.37%) Red Hat
1 13 (6.37%) SaltStack
2 3 (1.47%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.47%) SmartStream
3 2 (0.98%) Xilinx
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle
4 1 (0.49%) Samsung
4 1 (0.49%) Xamarin