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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 14 4
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 276 74 274
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 15.04% 12.98% 18.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.41% 15.04% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 194 41 204
10th Percentile £43,500 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £55,544 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +6.19% -13.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £80,875
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -11.54%

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 1,422 492 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.49% 86.32% 83.19%
Number of salaries quoted 941 282 909
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -13.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £65,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,375 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.34%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +9 125 £80,000 -5.88% 27
Gloucester -13 43 £60,000 -20.00% 21
Stroud - 19 £70,000 -
Filton +1 4 £40,000 -23.95% 5
Tewkesbury -7 3 £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 10 (3.62%) Apache
2 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.36%) CMS
3 1 (0.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.36%) nginx
3 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 28 (10.14%) AWS
2 18 (6.52%) Azure
3 12 (4.35%) GCP
4 7 (2.54%) OpenShift
5 4 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (1.45%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (0.72%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (0.72%) Azure AKS
6 2 (0.72%) GitHub
6 2 (0.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (0.72%) Serverless
7 1 (0.36%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.99%) Wireless
2 2 (0.72%) AMQP
2 2 (0.72%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.26%) Big Data
4 6 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.81%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.45%) MySQL
7 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.09%) Redis
8 2 (0.72%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (7.61%) Git
2 14 (5.07%) GitLab
3 9 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.90%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.54%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.45%) JIRA
7 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.72%) Gradle
8 2 (0.72%) JUnit
8 2 (0.72%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.72%) Mockito
8 2 (0.72%) Subversion
9 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.36%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.36%) Valgrind
9 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (7.97%) Social Skills
2 13 (4.71%) Aerospace
3 12 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.17%) Finance
6 5 (1.81%) Electronics
6 5 (1.81%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.09%) Games
8 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 239 (86.59%) Software Engineer
2 43 (15.58%) Senior
2 43 (15.58%) Senior Software Engineer
3 27 (9.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 27 (9.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 17 (6.16%) Lead
5 14 (5.07%) Lead Software Engineer
6 13 (4.71%) Android Engineer
6 13 (4.71%) Android Software Engineer
6 13 (4.71%) Developer
6 13 (4.71%) Embedded Engineer
6 13 (4.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 12 (4.35%) Java Engineer
7 12 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (4.35%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 10 (3.62%) Architect
8 10 (3.62%) Java Developer
8 10 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.90%) Principal Engineer
9 8 (2.90%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.71%) Vue
2 10 (3.62%) HTML
2 10 (3.62%) React
2 10 (3.62%) REST
3 8 (2.90%) AngularJS
3 8 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (2.90%) Node.js
4 7 (2.54%) Apache NiFi
4 7 (2.54%) RESTful
5 5 (1.81%) Spring
5 5 (1.81%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.45%) gRPC
7 3 (1.09%) Kafka
7 3 (1.09%) Middleware
7 3 (1.09%) OpenGL
7 3 (1.09%) Vulkan
7 3 (1.09%) ZeroMQ
8 2 (0.72%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.72%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.80%) Public Cloud
3 10 (3.62%) Cyberattack
4 9 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.54%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.81%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.09%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (1.09%) CUDA
8 3 (1.09%) Fat Client
8 3 (1.09%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.72%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.72%) PKI
9 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.72%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.36%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.06%) Linux
2 18 (6.52%) Android
3 11 (3.99%) Windows
4 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.72%) CentOS
5 2 (0.72%) Debian
5 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.36%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (21.38%) Agile
2 54 (19.57%) DevOps
3 41 (14.86%) CI/CD
4 40 (14.49%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 23 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (7.97%) AI
8 20 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (6.16%) Collaborative Culture
10 16 (5.80%) Data Science
10 16 (5.80%) Open Source
10 16 (5.80%) Test Automation
11 15 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (5.43%) Secure Coding
12 14 (5.07%) Containerisation
12 14 (5.07%) Mentoring
12 14 (5.07%) Software Testing
13 13 (4.71%) Clean Code
13 13 (4.71%) Embedded Software Development
13 13 (4.71%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (23.19%) Java
2 55 (19.93%) Python
3 51 (18.48%) C++
4 27 (9.78%) JavaScript
5 23 (8.33%) Rust
6 17 (6.16%) C
7 16 (5.80%) Kotlin
8 15 (5.43%) TypeScript
9 14 (5.07%) Go
10 11 (3.99%) Bash
11 4 (1.45%) C#
11 4 (1.45%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.45%) Scala
11 4 (1.45%) SQL
12 3 (1.09%) GLSL
13 1 (0.36%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 118 (42.75%) Security Cleared
2 64 (23.19%) DV Cleared
3 53 (19.20%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.80%) Degree
5 5 (1.81%) CEH
5 5 (1.81%) OSCP
6 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.62%) NIST
2 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 14 (5.07%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.25%) Terraform
3 15 (5.43%) Ansible
4 7 (2.54%) Grafana
4 7 (2.54%) Kibana
4 7 (2.54%) logstash
5 3 (1.09%) SCCM
5 3 (1.09%) SCOM
5 3 (1.09%) SCOrch
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.72%) Puppet
6 2 (0.72%) Rancher
7 1 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (1.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.45%) Databricks
3 3 (1.09%) Google
4 2 (0.72%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.72%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.72%) SaltStack
4 2 (0.72%) VMware