Developer Jobs in Gloucestershire

Developer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Developer salary in Gloucestershire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 14 24
Rank change year-on-year -29 +10 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 26 262 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 4.94% 15.23% 11.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.25% 15.72% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 23 251 64
10th Percentile £44,200 £27,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £47,625 £34,375 £43,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,875 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £64,750 £78,750
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 495 1,667 1,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 96.92% 84.75%
Number of salaries quoted 304 1,228 474
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,000 £61,250 £72,000
90th Percentile £74,625 £75,000 £81,250
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Gloucestershire

Developer
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary trend for Developer in Gloucestershire

Developer
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Gloucestershire

Developer
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Cheltenham 0 11 £66,250 +15.22% 16
Gloucester +11 8 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Lechlade - 3 £50,000 -
Cirencester -2 2 £50,000 -16.67%
Developer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (50.00%) DevOps
3 12 (46.15%) Python
4 11 (42.31%) Java
4 11 (42.31%) Docker
4 11 (42.31%) Azure
5 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
6 8 (30.77%) TypeScript
6 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
6 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
7 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
7 7 (26.92%) C#
7 7 (26.92%) JIRA
7 7 (26.92%) AWS
7 7 (26.92%) Confluence
8 6 (23.08%) React
8 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (23.08%) DV Cleared
8 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
9 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
9 5 (19.23%) Agile
9 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
9 5 (19.23%) .NET
9 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
9 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
9 5 (19.23%) OAuth
9 5 (19.23%) Git
10 4 (15.38%) RESTful

Developer 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 7 (26.92%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
3 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) GitHub
4 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (15.38%) Redis
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) JIRA
2 5 (19.23%) Git
3 4 (15.38%) SonarQube
4 3 (11.54%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.85%) GDB
5 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Electronics
4 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) React
2 5 (19.23%) .NET
2 5 (19.23%) OAuth
2 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
3 4 (15.38%) Django
3 4 (15.38%) FastAPI
3 4 (15.38%) Flask
3 4 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 4 (15.38%) Keycloak
3 4 (15.38%) pytest
3 4 (15.38%) RESTful
3 4 (15.38%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (15.38%) WebSockets
4 3 (11.54%) Node.js
5 2 (7.69%) HTML
5 2 (7.69%) Kafka
5 2 (7.69%) Spring
6 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Onboarding
1 4 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 3 (11.54%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Android
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
4 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (19.23%) Agile
5 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
5 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Front End Development
7 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (7.69%) Coaching
8 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (7.69%) Microservices
8 2 (7.69%) Project Management
8 2 (7.69%) SDLC
8 2 (7.69%) Service Management
8 2 (7.69%) TDD
8 2 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) Java
3 8 (30.77%) TypeScript
4 7 (26.92%) C#
5 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 4 (15.38%) SQL
6 2 (7.69%) C
6 2 (7.69%) C++
6 2 (7.69%) VB
6 2 (7.69%) VB.NET
6 2 (7.69%) VB6
7 1 (3.85%) Go
7 1 (3.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (11.54%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.85%) PhD
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Grafana
2 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) Kibana
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) IFS
3 1 (3.85%) SAP