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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 16 4
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 +11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 360 53 214
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 16.87% 9.35% 17.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.90% 11.04% 20.96%
Number of salaries quoted 235 40 123
10th Percentile £47,250 £27,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £35,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £85,625 £89,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £86,000
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%

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 1,644 480 1,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.04% 84.66% 81.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,079 312 687
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £40,000
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 £66,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,875 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £54,500
% change year-on-year +15.35% -12.51% -0.91%

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 19 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 19 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 +9 156 £80,000 -8.57% 42
Gloucester 0 83 £60,000 -20.00% 46
Stroud - 18 £70,000 -
Tewkesbury -5 5 £100,000 +135.29% 6
Filton +4 4 £40,000 -23.95%
Cirencester - 3 £85,000 -
Wotton-under-Edge - 1 £55,000 - 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 16 (4.44%) Apache
2 9 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.28%) Confluence
3 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 39 (10.83%) AWS
2 17 (4.72%) Azure
3 13 (3.61%) GCP
4 12 (3.33%) OpenShift
5 7 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (0.83%) Serverless
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.56%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.56%) GitHub
8 2 (0.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.06%) Wireless
2 3 (0.83%) AMQP
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.89%) Big Data
2 11 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.06%) Hadoop
3 10 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.39%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.83%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (0.83%) Redis
7 2 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.56%) MySQL
7 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (6.67%) Git
2 15 (4.17%) GitLab
3 10 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.22%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.67%) JIRA
7 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.83%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.56%) Gradle
8 2 (0.56%) JUnit
8 2 (0.56%) Mockito
8 2 (0.56%) TestRail
8 2 (0.56%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.28%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.28%) Mocha
9 1 (0.28%) Subversion
9 1 (0.28%) Valgrind
9 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (7.78%) Social Skills
2 20 (5.56%) Finance
3 17 (4.72%) Aerospace
3 17 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (1.94%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.39%) Electronics
7 4 (1.11%) Aviation
8 3 (0.83%) Games
8 3 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 306 (85.00%) Software Engineer
2 67 (18.61%) Senior
3 64 (17.78%) Senior Software Engineer
4 25 (6.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 25 (6.94%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 25 (6.94%) Lead
4 25 (6.94%) Principal Engineer
4 25 (6.94%) Principal Software Engineer
5 22 (6.11%) Lead Software Engineer
6 17 (4.72%) Developer
7 15 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 14 (3.89%) Embedded Engineer
8 14 (3.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 13 (3.61%) Android Engineer
9 13 (3.61%) Android Software Engineer
9 13 (3.61%) Java Engineer
9 13 (3.61%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (3.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 12 (3.33%) Security Engineer
11 11 (3.06%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.17%) React
2 12 (3.33%) REST
3 11 (3.06%) Vue
4 9 (2.50%) AngularJS
5 8 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.22%) HTML
5 8 (2.22%) RESTful
5 8 (2.22%) Spring
5 8 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 7 (1.94%) Node.js
7 5 (1.39%) gRPC
7 5 (1.39%) OpenAPI
8 4 (1.11%) Swagger
9 3 (0.83%) Kafka
9 3 (0.83%) Material-UI
9 3 (0.83%) Next.js
9 3 (0.83%) OpenGL
9 3 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.83%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.28%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.50%) Public Cloud
3 13 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.78%) Cyberattack
5 8 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (1.94%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.39%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.83%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (0.83%) CUDA
8 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.83%) Fat Client
8 3 (0.83%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.56%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.56%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.56%) PKI
9 2 (0.56%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.56%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.28%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.28%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.78%) Linux
2 21 (5.83%) Android
3 11 (3.06%) Windows
4 3 (0.83%) CentOS
4 3 (0.83%) Debian
4 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.83%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.28%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (23.06%) Agile
2 57 (15.83%) DevOps
3 51 (14.17%) CI/CD
4 39 (10.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (7.78%) Open Source
5 28 (7.78%) Test Automation
6 27 (7.50%) AI
7 24 (6.67%) Containerisation
8 23 (6.39%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (6.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 21 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (5.83%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (5.83%) DevSecOps
10 21 (5.83%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (5.00%) Data Science
11 18 (5.00%) Software Testing
12 17 (4.72%) Collaborative Culture
12 17 (4.72%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (4.72%) Embedded Software Development
12 17 (4.72%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 74 (20.56%) Python
2 72 (20.00%) Java
3 59 (16.39%) C++
4 38 (10.56%) JavaScript
5 28 (7.78%) Rust
6 21 (5.83%) C
6 21 (5.83%) TypeScript
7 17 (4.72%) Kotlin
8 14 (3.89%) Go
9 9 (2.50%) Bash
9 9 (2.50%) SQL
10 8 (2.22%) Scala
11 6 (1.67%) C#
12 3 (0.83%) GLSL
12 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.28%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.28%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 152 (42.22%) Security Cleared
2 84 (23.33%) DV Cleared
3 55 (15.28%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.72%) Degree
5 5 (1.39%) CEH
5 5 (1.39%) OSCP
6 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.78%) NIST
2 9 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 20 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (8.61%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.11%) Terraform
3 19 (5.28%) Ansible
4 7 (1.94%) Grafana
4 7 (1.94%) Kibana
4 7 (1.94%) logstash
5 3 (0.83%) Puppet
5 3 (0.83%) SCCM
5 3 (0.83%) SCOM
5 3 (0.83%) SCOrch
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (1.39%) Databricks
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.11%) Google
3 3 (0.83%) Red Hat
3 3 (0.83%) SaltStack
4 2 (0.56%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.56%) VMware