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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 14 4
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 392 53 205
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 17.28% 9.60% 17.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.52% 11.42% 20.85%
Number of salaries quoted 263 40 111
10th Percentile £50,000 £27,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £59,375 £35,000 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -1.92% +1.96%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +1.69% -9.23%

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 1,741 464 983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.76% 84.06% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,155 306 631
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +9 165 £80,000 +3.23% 57
Gloucester -1 102 £65,000 -13.33% 43
Stroud - 18 £70,000 -
Tewkesbury -1 11 £100,000 +135.29% 14
Filton +4 4 £40,000 -
Wotton-under-Edge - 4 £55,000 - 2
Cirencester - 3 £85,000 - 2
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 16 (4.08%) Apache
2 9 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 39 (9.95%) AWS
2 17 (4.34%) Azure
3 13 (3.32%) GCP
4 12 (3.06%) OpenShift
5 7 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (1.28%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (0.77%) Serverless
8 2 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.51%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.51%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.51%) GitHub
8 2 (0.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.81%) Wireless
2 3 (0.77%) AMQP
3 1 (0.26%) Network Security
3 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.57%) Big Data
2 11 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (2.81%) Hadoop
3 10 (2.55%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.77%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (0.77%) Redis
7 2 (0.51%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.51%) MySQL
7 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (5.61%) Git
2 15 (3.83%) GitLab
3 10 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.04%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.53%) JIRA
7 3 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.77%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.51%) Gradle
8 2 (0.51%) JUnit
8 2 (0.51%) Mockito
8 2 (0.51%) TestRail
8 2 (0.51%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.26%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.26%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.26%) Mocha
9 1 (0.26%) Subversion
9 1 (0.26%) Valgrind
9 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (6.63%) Social Skills
2 20 (5.10%) Finance
3 19 (4.85%) Aerospace
4 17 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.79%) Aviation
7 6 (1.53%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.28%) Electronics
9 3 (0.77%) Games
9 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 337 (85.97%) Software Engineer
2 78 (19.90%) Senior
3 75 (19.13%) Senior Software Engineer
4 35 (8.93%) Lead
4 35 (8.93%) Principal Engineer
4 35 (8.93%) Principal Software Engineer
5 32 (8.16%) Lead Software Engineer
6 25 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 25 (6.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 18 (4.59%) Java Engineer
7 18 (4.59%) Java Software Engineer
8 17 (4.34%) Developer
8 17 (4.34%) Embedded Engineer
8 17 (4.34%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 16 (4.08%) Security Engineer
9 16 (4.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 13 (3.32%) Android Engineer
10 13 (3.32%) Android Software Engineer
11 12 (3.06%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 11 (2.81%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.61%) Terraform
2 15 (3.83%) React
3 12 (3.06%) REST
4 11 (2.81%) Vue
5 9 (2.30%) AngularJS
6 8 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
6 8 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (2.04%) RESTful
6 8 (2.04%) Spring
6 8 (2.04%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.79%) HTML
7 7 (1.79%) Node.js
8 5 (1.28%) gRPC
8 5 (1.28%) OpenAPI
9 4 (1.02%) Swagger
10 3 (0.77%) Kafka
10 3 (0.77%) Material-UI
10 3 (0.77%) OpenGL
10 3 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.77%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.18%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.65%) Public Cloud
3 11 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.55%) Cyberattack
5 8 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.28%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.77%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (0.77%) CUDA
8 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.77%) Fat Client
8 3 (0.77%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.51%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.51%) PKI
9 2 (0.51%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.51%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.26%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.26%) IoT
10 1 (0.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.14%) Linux
2 21 (5.36%) Android
3 11 (2.81%) Windows
4 3 (0.77%) CentOS
4 3 (0.77%) Debian
4 3 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.77%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.26%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (21.94%) Agile
2 57 (14.54%) DevOps
3 49 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 39 (9.95%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (7.91%) Open Source
6 27 (6.89%) AI
6 27 (6.89%) Test Automation
7 23 (5.87%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (5.61%) Containerisation
8 22 (5.61%) Data Pipeline
8 22 (5.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (5.36%) DevSecOps
9 21 (5.36%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (4.59%) Collaborative Working
10 18 (4.59%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (4.59%) Data Science
10 18 (4.59%) Software Testing
11 17 (4.34%) Collaborative Culture
12 16 (4.08%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 73 (18.62%) Java
1 73 (18.62%) Python
2 57 (14.54%) C++
3 35 (8.93%) JavaScript
4 27 (6.89%) Rust
5 20 (5.10%) C
5 20 (5.10%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.34%) Kotlin
7 14 (3.57%) Go
8 9 (2.30%) Bash
8 9 (2.30%) SQL
9 8 (2.04%) Scala
10 4 (1.02%) C#
11 3 (0.77%) GLSL
11 3 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.26%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 156 (39.80%) Security Cleared
2 87 (22.19%) DV Cleared
3 56 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.08%) Degree
5 5 (1.28%) CEH
5 5 (1.28%) OSCP
6 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.55%) NIST
2 9 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 18 (4.59%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (7.40%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.85%) Ansible
3 7 (1.79%) Grafana
3 7 (1.79%) Kibana
3 7 (1.79%) logstash
4 3 (0.77%) Puppet
4 3 (0.77%) SCCM
4 3 (0.77%) SCOM
4 3 (0.77%) SCOrch
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (1.28%) Databricks
1 5 (1.28%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.02%) Google
3 3 (0.77%) Red Hat
3 3 (0.77%) SaltStack
4 2 (0.51%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.51%) VMware