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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 441 47 155
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 17.37% 9.14% 15.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.73% 11.03% 18.21%
Number of salaries quoted 256 33 62
10th Percentile £55,000 £32,050 £40,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £48,827
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +20.00% +0.04%
75th Percentile £90,625 £95,000 £78,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
South West median annual salary £70,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.08% -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 1,940 426 851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.41% 82.88% 84.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,228 282 406
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £41,500
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 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £80,750
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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +5 194 £80,000 +6.67% 79
Gloucester +4 139 £75,000 -9.09% 28
Tewkesbury - 16 £100,000 - 3
Wotton-under-Edge - 8 £55,000 - 2
Stroud - 7 £70,000 -
Cirencester - 6 £85,000 -
Filton +9 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 19 (4.31%) Apache
2 12 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.23%) Confluence
3 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 47 (10.66%) AWS
2 27 (6.12%) Azure
3 14 (3.17%) GCP
3 14 (3.17%) OpenShift
4 9 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.13%) Serverless
6 4 (0.91%) Amazon S3
6 4 (0.91%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (0.91%) GitHub
7 2 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.45%) Azure AKS
7 2 (0.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.36%) Wireless
2 5 (1.13%) AMQP
3 1 (0.23%) HTTP
3 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.08%) Big Data
2 13 (2.95%) Hadoop
3 12 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (2.27%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.59%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.36%) Redis
8 5 (1.13%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.45%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.45%) MySQL
9 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (5.44%) GitLab
2 20 (4.54%) Git
3 16 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.04%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.81%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.91%) JIRA
7 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.68%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.45%) TestRail
8 2 (0.45%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.23%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.23%) Gradle
9 1 (0.23%) JUnit
9 1 (0.23%) Mocha
9 1 (0.23%) Mockito
9 1 (0.23%) Valgrind
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (5.90%) Finance
2 20 (4.54%) Aerospace
3 18 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (3.85%) Social Skills
5 8 (1.81%) Aviation
6 6 (1.36%) Public Sector
7 3 (0.68%) Games
7 3 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.23%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 376 (85.26%) Software Engineer
2 103 (23.36%) Senior
3 94 (21.32%) Senior Software Engineer
4 59 (13.38%) Principal Engineer
5 55 (12.47%) Principal Software Engineer
6 51 (11.56%) Lead
7 48 (10.88%) Lead Software Engineer
8 31 (7.03%) Security Engineer
9 22 (4.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 22 (4.99%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 20 (4.54%) Developer
10 20 (4.54%) Java Engineer
11 17 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
12 16 (3.63%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 14 (3.17%) Embedded Engineer
13 14 (3.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 13 (2.95%) Senior Security Engineer
15 12 (2.72%) C++ Software Engineer
16 11 (2.49%) Python Engineer
16 11 (2.49%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.22%) Terraform
2 16 (3.63%) React
3 13 (2.95%) REST
3 13 (2.95%) RESTful
4 10 (2.27%) Vue
5 9 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
5 9 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.04%) Node.js
5 9 (2.04%) Spring
5 9 (2.04%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.81%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.59%) OpenAPI
8 6 (1.36%) gRPC
8 6 (1.36%) Kafka
8 6 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.36%) Swagger
9 5 (1.13%) Material-UI
10 3 (0.68%) FastAPI
10 3 (0.68%) Next.js
10 3 (0.68%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.84%) Cloud Native
2 34 (7.71%) Public Cloud
3 14 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (1.13%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (0.91%) Operational Technology
7 3 (0.68%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (0.68%) CUDA
8 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.45%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.45%) IoT
8 2 (0.45%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.45%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.23%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.23%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.23%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.23%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.23%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.23%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.39%) Linux
2 22 (4.99%) Android
3 11 (2.49%) Windows
4 6 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.36%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.13%) CentOS
5 5 (1.13%) Debian
5 5 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.91%) macOS
7 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (19.73%) Agile
2 54 (12.24%) CI/CD
3 46 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
4 44 (9.98%) Full-Stack Development
5 41 (9.30%) DevOps
6 38 (8.62%) Open Source
7 34 (7.71%) Collaborative Working
8 31 (7.03%) Containerisation
9 29 (6.58%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (6.35%) Test Automation
11 27 (6.12%) AI
12 26 (5.90%) DevSecOps
13 25 (5.67%) Cyber Intelligence
13 25 (5.67%) Microservices
14 22 (4.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (4.99%) Data Pipeline
15 20 (4.54%) Collaborative Culture
16 19 (4.31%) Code Quality
17 18 (4.08%) Infrastructure as Code
18 17 (3.85%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (19.27%) Java
2 76 (17.23%) Python
3 55 (12.47%) C++
4 36 (8.16%) JavaScript
5 26 (5.90%) Rust
6 20 (4.54%) C
7 19 (4.31%) TypeScript
8 16 (3.63%) Kotlin
9 15 (3.40%) Go
10 10 (2.27%) Bash
10 10 (2.27%) Scala
10 10 (2.27%) SQL
11 3 (0.68%) C#
11 3 (0.68%) GLSL
12 1 (0.23%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.23%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.23%) PHP
12 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 157 (35.60%) Security Cleared
2 83 (18.82%) DV Cleared
3 59 (13.38%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.17%) Degree
5 8 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.91%) CEH
6 4 (0.91%) OSCP
7 1 (0.23%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.36%) QA
3 5 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (5.67%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.54%) Ansible
3 8 (1.81%) Grafana
3 8 (1.81%) Kibana
3 8 (1.81%) logstash
4 5 (1.13%) Puppet
5 2 (0.45%) Rancher
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.23%) SCCM
6 1 (0.23%) SCOM
6 1 (0.23%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 6 (1.36%) Google
2 5 (1.13%) Red Hat
2 5 (1.13%) SaltStack
3 4 (0.91%) Atlassian
3 4 (0.91%) Databricks
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.23%) Foundry
5 1 (0.23%) VMware