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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 14 4
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 313 76 224
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 15.67% 12.67% 17.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.35% 14.67% 21.07%
Number of salaries quoted 205 42 133
10th Percentile £43,750 £27,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £55,544 £35,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.26% +3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,500 £100,000 £84,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -10.77%

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 1,538 518 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.02% 86.33% 82.34%
Number of salaries quoted 994 302 716
10th Percentile £30,400 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% -2.73%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +8 144 £80,000 -5.88% 46
Gloucester -5 61 £60,000 -20.00% 37
Stroud - 18 £70,000 -
Filton +3 4 £40,000 -23.95% 2
Tewkesbury -7 2 £44,000 +3.53% 9
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 13 (4.15%) Apache
2 6 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.32%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 32 (10.22%) AWS
2 15 (4.79%) Azure
3 12 (3.83%) GCP
4 9 (2.88%) OpenShift
5 5 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (1.60%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (0.64%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (0.64%) Azure AKS
6 2 (0.64%) GitHub
6 2 (0.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (0.64%) Serverless
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.51%) Wireless
2 2 (0.64%) AMQP
2 2 (0.64%) Network Security
3 1 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.51%) Big Data
2 10 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.19%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.56%) Hadoop
4 5 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.96%) Redis
6 2 (0.64%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.64%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.64%) MySQL
6 2 (0.64%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (7.03%) Git
2 15 (4.79%) GitLab
3 9 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.56%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.24%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.60%) JIRA
7 3 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.96%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.64%) Gradle
8 2 (0.64%) JUnit
8 2 (0.64%) Mockito
8 2 (0.64%) Subversion
9 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.32%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.32%) TestRail
9 1 (0.32%) Valgrind
9 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (8.31%) Social Skills
2 14 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (4.15%) Aerospace
3 13 (4.15%) Finance
4 11 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (2.24%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.60%) Electronics
7 3 (0.96%) Games
7 3 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 269 (85.94%) Software Engineer
2 55 (17.57%) Senior
3 54 (17.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 26 (8.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 26 (8.31%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 20 (6.39%) Lead
6 17 (5.43%) Lead Software Engineer
7 15 (4.79%) Principal Engineer
7 15 (4.79%) Principal Software Engineer
8 13 (4.15%) Android Engineer
8 13 (4.15%) Android Software Engineer
8 13 (4.15%) Developer
8 13 (4.15%) Embedded Engineer
8 13 (4.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 12 (3.83%) Java Engineer
9 12 (3.83%) Java Software Engineer
9 12 (3.83%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 11 (3.51%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 10 (3.19%) Architect
11 10 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.51%) React
1 11 (3.51%) Vue
2 10 (3.19%) REST
3 9 (2.88%) HTML
4 8 (2.56%) AngularJS
4 8 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
4 8 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (2.56%) RESTful
5 6 (1.92%) Spring
5 6 (1.92%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.60%) Node.js
7 4 (1.28%) gRPC
8 3 (0.96%) Kafka
8 3 (0.96%) OpenAPI
8 3 (0.96%) OpenGL
8 3 (0.96%) Vulkan
9 2 (0.64%) Middleware
9 2 (0.64%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.64%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.58%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.71%) Public Cloud
3 12 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.19%) Cyberattack
5 7 (2.24%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.24%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.60%) Operational Technology
7 3 (0.96%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (0.96%) CUDA
7 3 (0.96%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.96%) Fat Client
7 3 (0.96%) Thin Client
8 2 (0.64%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.64%) PKI
8 2 (0.64%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.64%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.32%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.32%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.32%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.31%) Linux
2 20 (6.39%) Android
3 11 (3.51%) Windows
4 3 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.64%) CentOS
5 2 (0.64%) Debian
5 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.64%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.32%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (22.68%) Agile
2 54 (17.25%) DevOps
3 47 (15.02%) CI/CD
4 39 (12.46%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (7.03%) AI
5 22 (7.03%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (7.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 22 (7.03%) Test Automation
6 21 (6.71%) Open Source
6 21 (6.71%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (5.75%) Containerisation
7 18 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (5.43%) Collaborative Culture
8 17 (5.43%) Data Science
8 17 (5.43%) DevSecOps
8 17 (5.43%) Software Testing
9 16 (5.11%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (5.11%) Embedded Software Development
10 15 (4.79%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (4.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (21.09%) Java
2 61 (19.49%) Python
3 53 (16.93%) C++
4 31 (9.90%) JavaScript
5 26 (8.31%) Rust
6 18 (5.75%) C
6 18 (5.75%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.43%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.47%) Go
9 9 (2.88%) Bash
10 7 (2.24%) SQL
11 6 (1.92%) Scala
12 5 (1.60%) C#
13 3 (0.96%) GLSL
13 3 (0.96%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.32%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 133 (42.49%) Security Cleared
2 72 (23.00%) DV Cleared
3 50 (15.97%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.43%) Degree
5 5 (1.60%) CEH
5 5 (1.60%) OSCP
6 4 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.19%) NIST
2 5 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.96%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 16 (5.11%) Docker
2 2 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (7.99%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.07%) Terraform
3 16 (5.11%) Ansible
4 7 (2.24%) Grafana
4 7 (2.24%) Kibana
4 7 (2.24%) logstash
5 3 (0.96%) SCCM
5 3 (0.96%) SCOM
5 3 (0.96%) SCOrch
6 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.64%) Puppet
6 2 (0.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (1.60%) Databricks
1 5 (1.60%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.96%) Google
3 2 (0.64%) Atlassian
3 2 (0.64%) Red Hat
3 2 (0.64%) SaltStack
3 2 (0.64%) VMware