Software Engineering Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 13 6
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 198 73 317
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 14.86% 17.46% 18.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.47% 19.06% 21.88%
Number of salaries quoted 140 36 266
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £33,063 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +12.20% -21.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £85,500 £80,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,017 383 1,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.35% 91.63% 86.05%
Number of salaries quoted 681 211 1,080
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £77,500
South West median annual salary £54,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% -2.86%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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 75 £80,000 +23.08% 14
Gloucester -3 34 £60,000 - 7
Stroud - 19 £70,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -4 5 £44,000 +3.53% 3
Software Engineering
South West

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.04%) Apache
2 2 (1.01%) Confluence
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.51%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.11%) AWS
2 15 (7.58%) Azure
3 6 (3.03%) GCP
4 3 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.01%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.01%) Serverless
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (0.51%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.51%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.51%) DigitalOcean
6 1 (0.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.04%) Wireless
2 2 (1.01%) Network Security
3 1 (0.51%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.07%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.53%) Big Data
2 5 (2.53%) MongoDB
2 5 (2.53%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.52%) MySQL
3 3 (1.52%) Neo4j
3 3 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.51%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (8.08%) Git
2 8 (4.04%) GitLab
3 7 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.54%) JUnit
3 7 (3.54%) SonarQube
4 6 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.53%) JIRA
6 4 (2.02%) Gradle
7 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.01%) Maven
8 2 (1.01%) Mockito
8 2 (1.01%) Subversion
9 1 (0.51%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.51%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.51%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 11 (5.56%) Aerospace
3 10 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.53%) Electronics
6 4 (2.02%) Finance
7 3 (1.52%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.01%) Law
8 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 163 (82.32%) Software Engineer
2 34 (17.17%) Senior
3 33 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 18 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 17 (8.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 14 (7.07%) Architect
6 14 (7.07%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (6.57%) Embedded Engineer
7 13 (6.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 11 (5.56%) Java Engineer
8 11 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (4.55%) Developer
10 7 (3.54%) Android Engineer
10 7 (3.54%) Android Software Engineer
10 7 (3.54%) Graduate
10 7 (3.54%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 7 (3.54%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) Lead
11 6 (3.03%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.57%) React
1 13 (6.57%) Vue
2 11 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 10 (5.05%) REST
4 9 (4.55%) HTML
4 9 (4.55%) Spring
4 9 (4.55%) Spring Boot
5 7 (3.54%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.53%) Node.js
7 5 (2.53%) RESTful
8 4 (2.02%) Middleware
8 4 (2.02%) ZeroMQ
9 3 (1.52%) gRPC
9 3 (1.52%) Hibernate
9 3 (1.52%) MERN Stack
10 2 (1.01%) JPA
10 2 (1.01%) Protocol Buffers
10 2 (1.01%) Qt
11 1 (0.51%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.05%) Cyberattack
2 7 (3.54%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.02%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.52%) Fat Client
5 3 (1.52%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.52%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.01%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.01%) PKI
6 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.01%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.11%) Linux
2 7 (3.54%) Android
3 6 (3.03%) Windows
4 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) CentOS
5 1 (0.51%) Debian
5 1 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (27.27%) DevOps
2 45 (22.73%) Agile
3 29 (14.65%) CI/CD
3 29 (14.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (11.62%) AI
4 23 (11.62%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 17 (8.59%) Collaborative Culture
6 17 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (8.08%) Mentoring
8 15 (7.58%) Secure Coding
9 14 (7.07%) Data Science
10 13 (6.57%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (6.06%) Clean Code
11 12 (6.06%) Line Management
11 12 (6.06%) Test Automation
12 11 (5.56%) Embedded Software Development
13 10 (5.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (5.05%) Signal Processing
13 10 (5.05%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (26.26%) Java
2 49 (24.75%) Python
3 36 (18.18%) C++
4 21 (10.61%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.08%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.57%) Bash
6 13 (6.57%) C
7 11 (5.56%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.56%) Rust
8 8 (4.04%) Go
9 4 (2.02%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.52%) C#
11 2 (1.01%) Elixir
11 2 (1.01%) Embedded C++
11 2 (1.01%) Erlang
11 2 (1.01%) SQL
12 1 (0.51%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 85 (42.93%) Security Cleared
2 51 (25.76%) DV Cleared
3 45 (22.73%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.58%) Degree
5 3 (1.52%) CEH
5 3 (1.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.05%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (6.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.01%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (9.60%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.08%) Terraform
3 13 (6.57%) Ansible
4 8 (4.04%) Grafana
5 7 (3.54%) Kibana
6 6 (3.03%) logstash
7 3 (1.52%) SCCM
7 3 (1.52%) SCOM
7 3 (1.52%) SCOrch
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.51%) Podman
9 1 (0.51%) Puppet
9 1 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (2.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.01%) Google
2 2 (1.01%) VMware
3 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.51%) Databricks
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle
3 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.51%) SaltStack