Software Engineer Jobs in Gloucestershire

Software Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Software Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 May 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 29 35
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 206 126 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 11.64% 9.91% 8.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.03% 11.58% 8.95%
Number of salaries quoted 134 64 41
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,600 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +15.91% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £72,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%

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 1,713 1,088 1,318
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.83% 85.53% 97.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,247 490 769
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,450 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £63,750
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 26 May 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 26 May 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 61 £75,000 +13.21% 2
Cheltenham +1 49 £60,000 -7.69% 17
Berkeley - 8 £30,000 -
Tewkesbury -6 6 £52,500 +16.67%
Wotton-under-Edge - 6 £40,000 - 3
Filton - 2 £61,250 -
Cirencester - 1 - -
Software Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 26 May 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.

1 206 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 118 (57.28%) Security Cleared
3 110 (53.40%) Python
4 94 (45.63%) Java
5 91 (44.17%) JavaScript
6 81 (39.32%) Agile
7 80 (38.83%) AWS
8 71 (34.47%) Azure
9 60 (29.13%) DV Cleared
9 60 (29.13%) Linux
10 48 (23.30%) Cybersecurity
11 47 (22.82%) React
12 46 (22.33%) AngularJS
12 46 (22.33%) Aerospace
12 46 (22.33%) C
13 42 (20.39%) Collaborative Working
14 41 (19.90%) Actionable Insight
15 39 (18.93%) Scrum
16 38 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
17 37 (17.96%) C++
18 32 (15.53%) Node.js
18 32 (15.53%) Kubernetes
19 31 (15.05%) Spring
20 30 (14.56%) Rust
20 30 (14.56%) Full Stack Development
21 29 (14.08%) Systems Engineering
22 27 (13.11%) C#
22 27 (13.11%) Bash
23 26 (12.62%) Embedded Linux
23 26 (12.62%) Embedded C

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 25 (12.14%) Apache
2 14 (6.80%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) GNU Octave
1 2 (0.97%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 80 (38.83%) AWS
2 71 (34.47%) Azure
3 21 (10.19%) GCP
4 19 (9.22%) OpenShift
5 16 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (7.77%) Serverless
6 14 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (2.91%) npm
8 3 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.46%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.46%) SaaS
9 1 (0.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.28%) AMQP
2 2 (0.97%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.97%) Wireless
3 1 (0.49%) Internet
3 1 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.77%) Big Data
2 15 (7.28%) Hadoop
3 14 (6.80%) Cloudera CDH
4 8 (3.88%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.43%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Accumulo
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.37%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.91%) Cucumber
2 6 (2.91%) Cypress.io
2 6 (2.91%) Selenium
2 6 (2.91%) Storybook
3 4 (1.94%) Git
4 3 (1.46%) GitLab
5 2 (0.97%) JIRA
5 2 (0.97%) PetaLinux
5 2 (0.97%) TestRail
6 1 (0.49%) GCC
General
1 46 (22.33%) Aerospace
2 17 (8.25%) Manufacturing
3 10 (4.85%) Finance
4 9 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.91%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.43%) Social Skills
7 3 (1.46%) Legal
8 1 (0.49%) Automotive
8 1 (0.49%) Aviation
8 1 (0.49%) Electronics
8 1 (0.49%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (22.82%) React
2 46 (22.33%) AngularJS
3 32 (15.53%) Node.js
4 31 (15.05%) Spring
5 21 (10.19%) Spring Boot
6 18 (8.74%) OpenAPI
6 18 (8.74%) Swagger
7 15 (7.28%) .NET
7 15 (7.28%) REST
8 14 (6.80%) gRPC
8 14 (6.80%) Material-UI
8 14 (6.80%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (5.34%) Apache NiFi
9 11 (5.34%) STL
10 8 (3.88%) CSS
11 6 (2.91%) HTML
11 6 (2.91%) Sass
12 5 (2.43%) Vue
13 4 (1.94%) RESTful
14 3 (1.46%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.37%) FPGA
3 3 (1.46%) Private Cloud
4 2 (0.97%) Algorithms
4 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
4 2 (0.97%) NHS
4 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.97%) VHDL
5 1 (0.49%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.49%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 60 (29.13%) Linux
2 26 (12.62%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (6.80%) CentOS
3 14 (6.80%) Debian
3 14 (6.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (6.80%) Ubuntu
4 12 (5.83%) Windows
5 3 (1.46%) Android
6 2 (0.97%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.49%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 81 (39.32%) Agile
3 48 (23.30%) Cybersecurity
4 42 (20.39%) Collaborative Working
5 41 (19.90%) Actionable Insight
6 39 (18.93%) Scrum
7 38 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (14.56%) Full Stack Development
9 29 (14.08%) Systems Engineering
10 24 (11.65%) Containerisation
11 18 (8.74%) Microservices
12 17 (8.25%) CI/CD
12 17 (8.25%) Configuration Management
12 17 (8.25%) Open Source
12 17 (8.25%) Unit Testing
13 16 (7.77%) DevOps
13 16 (7.77%) SDLC
14 14 (6.80%) API Development
14 14 (6.80%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (6.80%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 110 (53.40%) Python
2 94 (45.63%) Java
3 91 (44.17%) JavaScript
4 46 (22.33%) C
5 37 (17.96%) C++
6 30 (14.56%) Rust
7 27 (13.11%) Bash
7 27 (13.11%) C#
8 26 (12.62%) Embedded C
9 9 (4.37%) SQL
10 8 (3.88%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.97%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 118 (57.28%) Security Cleared
2 60 (29.13%) DV Cleared
3 21 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.37%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.37%) QA
System Software
1 23 (11.17%) Docker
2 9 (4.37%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (4.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (15.53%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.22%) Terraform
3 15 (7.28%) Ansible
4 14 (6.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (6.80%) Google
1 14 (6.80%) Red Hat
1 14 (6.80%) SaltStack
2 3 (1.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.46%) SmartStream
3 2 (0.97%) Xilinx
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle
4 1 (0.49%) Samsung
4 1 (0.49%) Xamarin