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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 14 5
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 203 65 316
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 14.31% 14.44% 18.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.62% 15.82% 21.78%
Number of salaries quoted 145 35 241
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £31,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,000 £95,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -11.93%

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 1,090 411 1,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.81% 91.33% 83.78%
Number of salaries quoted 728 225 1,077
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,375 £31,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,625 £80,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -6.18%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 85 £80,000 +23.08% 42
Gloucester -7 28 £60,000 -9.43% 10
Stroud - 17 £70,000 - 4
Tewkesbury -3 5 £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 8 (3.94%) Apache
2 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) CMS
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.49%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.33%) AWS
2 18 (8.87%) Azure
3 11 (5.42%) GCP
4 3 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (1.48%) OpenShift
5 2 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (0.99%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (0.99%) Serverless
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.49%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.49%) DigitalOcean
6 1 (0.49%) GitHub
6 1 (0.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.43%) Wireless
2 2 (0.99%) AMQP
2 2 (0.99%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (3.94%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.45%) Big Data
4 5 (2.46%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.48%) MySQL
7 2 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (0.99%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.99%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (7.88%) Git
2 8 (3.94%) GitLab
3 7 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.45%) SonarQube
4 6 (2.96%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.97%) Gradle
5 4 (1.97%) JIRA
6 3 (1.48%) JUnit
7 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.99%) Maven
7 2 (0.99%) Mockito
7 2 (0.99%) Subversion
8 1 (0.49%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.49%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (8.87%) Social Skills
2 11 (5.42%) Aerospace
3 10 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.46%) Electronics
6 4 (1.97%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.48%) Finance
8 2 (0.99%) Law
8 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 170 (83.74%) Software Engineer
2 28 (13.79%) Senior
3 27 (13.30%) Senior Software Engineer
4 21 (10.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 20 (9.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 13 (6.40%) Architect
6 13 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (5.91%) Java Engineer
7 12 (5.91%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (5.42%) Embedded Engineer
8 11 (5.42%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 10 (4.93%) Developer
10 9 (4.43%) Android Engineer
10 9 (4.43%) Android Software Engineer
10 9 (4.43%) Lead
11 7 (3.45%) Java Developer
12 6 (2.96%) Graduate
12 6 (2.96%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 6 (2.96%) Lead Software Engineer
12 6 (2.96%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.40%) React
1 13 (6.40%) Vue
2 12 (5.91%) REST
3 11 (5.42%) AngularJS
4 10 (4.93%) Spring
4 10 (4.93%) Spring Boot
5 9 (4.43%) HTML
6 7 (3.45%) Node.js
7 6 (2.96%) Apache NiFi
7 6 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.46%) RESTful
9 4 (1.97%) gRPC
10 3 (1.48%) Middleware
10 3 (1.48%) ZeroMQ
11 2 (0.99%) Hibernate
11 2 (0.99%) JPA
11 2 (0.99%) Material-UI
11 2 (0.99%) Protocol Buffers
11 2 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.93%) Cyberattack
2 9 (4.43%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.96%) Algorithms
3 6 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.97%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (1.97%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.48%) Fat Client
5 3 (1.48%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.48%) Thin Client
6 2 (0.99%) Blockchain
6 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.99%) PKI
6 2 (0.99%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.99%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.37%) Linux
2 9 (4.43%) Android
3 7 (3.45%) Windows
4 3 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.99%) CentOS
5 2 (0.99%) Debian
5 2 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.99%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.49%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (29.56%) DevOps
2 49 (24.14%) Agile
3 32 (15.76%) CI/CD
3 32 (15.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 28 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
5 27 (13.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 24 (11.82%) AI
7 17 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (7.88%) Data Science
9 15 (7.39%) Collaborative Culture
9 15 (7.39%) Mentoring
9 15 (7.39%) Secure Coding
10 13 (6.40%) Clean Code
10 13 (6.40%) Test Automation
11 12 (5.91%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (5.91%) Line Management
12 11 (5.42%) Containerisation
12 11 (5.42%) Embedded Software Development
13 10 (4.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (4.93%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (26.60%) Java
2 44 (21.67%) Python
3 36 (17.73%) C++
4 21 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.39%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.40%) C
6 13 (6.40%) Rust
7 12 (5.91%) Bash
7 12 (5.91%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.94%) Go
9 4 (1.97%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.48%) C#
11 2 (0.99%) Elixir
11 2 (0.99%) Erlang
11 2 (0.99%) SQL
12 1 (0.49%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.49%) PHP
12 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 87 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 50 (24.63%) DV Cleared
3 45 (22.17%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.40%) Degree
5 3 (1.48%) CEH
5 3 (1.48%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.93%) NIST
2 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 14 (6.90%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.99%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (9.85%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.87%) Terraform
3 15 (7.39%) Ansible
4 8 (3.94%) Grafana
5 6 (2.96%) Kibana
5 6 (2.96%) logstash
6 3 (1.48%) SCCM
6 3 (1.48%) SCOM
6 3 (1.48%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.99%) Puppet
8 1 (0.49%) Podman
8 1 (0.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (2.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.48%) Google
3 2 (0.99%) Databricks
3 2 (0.99%) Red Hat
3 2 (0.99%) SaltStack
3 2 (0.99%) VMware
4 1 (0.49%) Atlassian