Software Engineer Jobs in Gloucester

Software Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Software Engineer salary in Gloucester is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 28 28
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 7 59 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucester 8.14% 10.89% 11.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.33% 11.22% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 18
10th Percentile - £42,500 £43,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £53,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,250 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +7.55% +12.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,938 £77,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £92,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucester. 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 Gloucester with a recognized job title 84 526 505
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.67% 97.05% 88.60%
Number of salaries quoted 58 284 131
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,113 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,125 £36,063 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% -5.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £73,125 £57,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £67,500 £77,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.20% -9.09% +10.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Gloucester

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Gloucester

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Gloucester

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Gloucester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Gloucester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Gloucester

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Gloucester region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Atlassian
2 6 (85.71%) Unit Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) MongoDB
2 6 (85.71%) TypeScript
2 6 (85.71%) GitLab
2 6 (85.71%) React
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
3 4 (57.14%) Kibana
3 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (57.14%) Aerospace
3 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
3 4 (57.14%) Oracle
3 4 (57.14%) JSF
3 4 (57.14%) Git
4 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
5 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 2 (28.57%) Confluence
5 2 (28.57%) JIRA

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) MongoDB
2 4 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
2 4 (57.14%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) JUnit
General
1 4 (57.14%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) React
2 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
2 4 (57.14%) JSF
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) Unit Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
4 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
1 6 (85.71%) Python
1 6 (85.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Atlassian
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle