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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +12 -8 +7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 429 48 174
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 17.32% 9.04% 16.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.70% 10.84% 20.47%
Number of salaries quoted 277 35 75
10th Percentile £52,500 £27,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £78,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
South West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -4.00%

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 1,890 443 850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.30% 83.43% 82.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 289 469
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,200
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £66,750
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 30 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 30 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 +4 182 £80,000 +4.92% 101
Gloucester +1 129 £75,000 -6.25% 49
Tewkesbury - 15 £100,000 - 7
Stroud - 12 £70,000 -
Cirencester - 6 £85,000 - 1
Wotton-under-Edge - 6 £55,000 - 2
Filton +10 4 £40,000 - 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 18 (4.20%) Apache
2 11 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.23%) Confluence
3 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 43 (10.02%) AWS
2 23 (5.36%) Azure
3 14 (3.26%) GCP
3 14 (3.26%) OpenShift
4 9 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (0.93%) Serverless
6 3 (0.70%) Azure AKS
6 3 (0.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.47%) GitHub
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.10%) Wireless
2 4 (0.93%) AMQP
3 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.50%) Big Data
2 13 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (2.80%) Hadoop
4 11 (2.56%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.63%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.17%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.93%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (0.70%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.70%) MySQL
9 3 (0.70%) Redis
10 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (5.59%) Git
2 21 (4.90%) GitLab
3 15 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.10%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.86%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.40%) JIRA
7 4 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.70%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.70%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.47%) Gradle
9 2 (0.47%) JUnit
9 2 (0.47%) Mockito
9 2 (0.47%) TestRail
9 2 (0.47%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.23%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.23%) Mocha
10 1 (0.23%) Valgrind
10 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (5.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (4.66%) Aerospace
2 20 (4.66%) Finance
3 18 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (1.86%) Aviation
4 8 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (1.17%) Public Sector
6 3 (0.70%) Games
6 3 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (0.47%) Electronics
8 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 370 (86.25%) Software Engineer
2 88 (20.51%) Senior
3 82 (19.11%) Senior Software Engineer
4 45 (10.49%) Lead
4 45 (10.49%) Principal Engineer
4 45 (10.49%) Principal Software Engineer
5 42 (9.79%) Lead Software Engineer
6 26 (6.06%) Security Engineer
7 24 (5.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 24 (5.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 23 (5.36%) Java Engineer
9 22 (5.13%) Java Software Engineer
10 21 (4.90%) Developer
11 17 (3.96%) Embedded Engineer
11 17 (3.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 16 (3.73%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 13 (3.03%) Android Engineer
13 13 (3.03%) Android Software Engineer
14 12 (2.80%) C++ Software Engineer
15 11 (2.56%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.59%) Terraform
2 16 (3.73%) React
3 13 (3.03%) REST
3 13 (3.03%) RESTful
4 12 (2.80%) Vue
5 9 (2.10%) AngularJS
5 9 (2.10%) Apache NiFi
5 9 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.10%) Spring
5 9 (2.10%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.86%) Node.js
7 6 (1.40%) gRPC
7 6 (1.40%) OpenAPI
8 5 (1.17%) Swagger
9 4 (0.93%) Kafka
9 4 (0.93%) Material-UI
9 4 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.70%) Middleware
10 3 (0.70%) Next.js
10 3 (0.70%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.39%) Cloud Native
2 34 (7.93%) Public Cloud
3 13 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (1.86%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (1.63%) Cyberattack
6 5 (1.17%) Operational Technology
7 4 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 4 (0.93%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (0.70%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (0.70%) CUDA
8 3 (0.70%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.70%) Fat Client
8 3 (0.70%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.70%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.47%) IoT
9 2 (0.47%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.47%) PKI
9 2 (0.47%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.47%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.23%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.16%) Linux
2 23 (5.36%) Android
3 11 (2.56%) Windows
4 5 (1.17%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.93%) CentOS
5 4 (0.93%) Debian
5 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (20.28%) Agile
2 57 (13.29%) DevOps
3 55 (12.82%) CI/CD
4 42 (9.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (8.16%) Open Source
6 31 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
7 30 (6.99%) Collaborative Working
8 29 (6.76%) AI
9 28 (6.53%) Containerisation
9 28 (6.53%) Test Automation
10 27 (6.29%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (5.83%) DevSecOps
12 22 (5.13%) Cyber Intelligence
12 22 (5.13%) Data Pipeline
13 21 (4.90%) Microservices
14 20 (4.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (4.43%) Collaborative Culture
15 19 (4.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 18 (4.20%) Infrastructure as Code
16 18 (4.20%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (19.81%) Java
2 79 (18.41%) Python
3 58 (13.52%) C++
4 35 (8.16%) JavaScript
5 28 (6.53%) Rust
6 19 (4.43%) C
6 19 (4.43%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.96%) Kotlin
8 16 (3.73%) Go
9 11 (2.56%) SQL
10 10 (2.33%) Bash
11 8 (1.86%) Scala
12 3 (0.70%) C#
12 3 (0.70%) GLSL
12 3 (0.70%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.23%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.23%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.23%) PHP
13 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 159 (37.06%) Security Cleared
2 86 (20.05%) DV Cleared
3 58 (13.52%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.43%) Degree
5 7 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.17%) CEH
6 5 (1.17%) OSCP
7 4 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.10%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.63%) NIST
3 5 (1.17%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.17%) QA
4 2 (0.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (5.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.13%) Ansible
3 8 (1.86%) Grafana
3 8 (1.86%) Kibana
3 8 (1.86%) logstash
4 4 (0.93%) Puppet
5 3 (0.70%) Rancher
5 3 (0.70%) SCCM
5 3 (0.70%) SCOM
5 3 (0.70%) SCOrch
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (1.17%) Google
1 5 (1.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.93%) Databricks
2 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
2 4 (0.93%) SaltStack
3 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
3 2 (0.47%) VMware
4 1 (0.23%) Foundry