Software Engineering Jobs in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 4 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 99 334 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 16.45% 18.59% 14.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.23% 21.97% 15.20%
Number of salaries quoted 56 235 88
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £44,400
25th Percentile £51,875 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £74,063 £75,000 £75,313
90th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £57,443 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -8.00% +4.17%

All Process and 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 543 1,520 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 90.20% 84.59% 97.49%
Number of salaries quoted 303 1,060 507
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,536 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -12.28% +14.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,000 £80,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £53,413
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.71% +6.83%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 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
Filton +3 32 £52,600 -4.36% 7
Cheltenham -4 18 £77,500 +14.81% 57
Gloucester +14 17 £73,750 +28.26% 58
Tewkesbury +15 2 £42,500 -27.66% 1
Cinderford - 2 - -
Wotton-under-Edge +1 1 - -
Software Engineering
South West

Software Engineering
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 20 (20.20%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) Apache
Applications
1 23 (23.23%) Simulink
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.06%) AWS
2 1 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (1.01%) Amazon S3
2 1 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (1.01%) Azure
2 1 (1.01%) NuGet
2 1 (1.01%) OpenShift
2 1 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) Broadband
1 1 (1.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.20%) Big Data
2 8 (8.08%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.07%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.09%) GitLab
2 7 (7.07%) Git
3 3 (3.03%) JUnit
4 2 (2.02%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.02%) JIRA
4 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.01%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (20.20%) Finance
1 20 (20.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.10%) Electronics
4 9 (9.09%) Local Government
4 9 (9.09%) Marketing
5 6 (6.06%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.01%) Automotive
6 1 (1.01%) Games
6 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (30.30%) Senior
2 29 (29.29%) Software Engineer
3 23 (23.23%) Systems Engineer
4 21 (21.21%) Data Scientist
5 20 (20.20%) Senior Data Scientist
6 9 (9.09%) Analyst
6 9 (9.09%) Support Analyst
7 7 (7.07%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Developer
8 6 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Principal Software Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 2 (2.02%) Administrator
11 2 (2.02%) Junior
11 2 (2.02%) Senior Developer
11 2 (2.02%) Senior Software Developer
11 2 (2.02%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.12%) React
2 9 (9.09%) XML
3 5 (5.05%) Hibernate
4 4 (4.04%) JSF
5 3 (3.03%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.02%) MFC
6 2 (2.02%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.02%) Spring
6 2 (2.02%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.01%) .NET
7 1 (1.01%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.01%) Blazor
7 1 (1.01%) HTML
7 1 (1.01%) Kafka
7 1 (1.01%) OAuth
7 1 (1.01%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.01%) OpenCV
7 1 (1.01%) Pandas
7 1 (1.01%) REST
7 1 (1.01%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.23%) Algorithms
2 20 (20.20%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.01%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.01%) PKI
3 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.01%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (2.02%) Windows
3 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.45%) Mathematics
2 32 (32.32%) Systems Engineering
3 29 (29.29%) Decision-Making
4 28 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (26.26%) DevOps
5 26 (26.26%) Mentoring
6 25 (25.25%) Validation
7 23 (23.23%) Artificial Intelligence
7 23 (23.23%) Digital Twin
7 23 (23.23%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 23 (23.23%) SysML
7 23 (23.23%) Verification and Validation
8 22 (22.22%) Data Science
8 22 (22.22%) Machine Learning
8 22 (22.22%) MLOps
9 21 (21.21%) Computer Science
9 21 (21.21%) Data Analysis
9 21 (21.21%) Microservices
9 21 (21.21%) Statistics
10 20 (20.20%) Exploratory Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 35 (35.35%) Java
1 35 (35.35%) Python
2 32 (32.32%) JavaScript
3 24 (24.24%) MATLAB
4 13 (13.13%) TypeScript
5 10 (10.10%) SQL
6 8 (8.08%) C++
7 2 (2.02%) C#
7 2 (2.02%) Go
7 2 (2.02%) Rust
7 2 (2.02%) VC++
8 1 (1.01%) C
8 1 (1.01%) R
8 1 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (46.46%) Degree
2 45 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 37 (37.37%) DV Cleared
4 23 (23.23%) HNC
4 23 (23.23%) HND
5 21 (21.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (6.06%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.01%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (24.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (23.23%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.07%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (8.08%) Oracle
2 7 (7.07%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.01%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow