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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 19 8
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 77 102 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.70% 15.18% 18.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.46% 16.59% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 49 38 96
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,750 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,625 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,000 £81,250
South West median annual salary £65,000 £57,560 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.93% +0.10% -4.17%

All Process and 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 498 615 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 75.68% 91.52% 90.58%
Number of salaries quoted 346 270 482
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,536 £41,313 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +0.92% +3.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £80,675
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £53,750
% change year-on-year -8.15% +1.28% +5.39%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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
Gloucester +4 25 £75,000 -6.25% 43
Cheltenham +2 25 £80,000 +23.08% 45
Stroud - 6 £70,000 -
Wotton-under-Edge -1 1 £55,000 -
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 7 (9.09%) Apache
2 5 (6.49%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (33.77%) AWS
2 10 (12.99%) Azure
3 8 (10.39%) Amazon S3
3 8 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (10.39%) Serverless
4 5 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.90%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.90%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.30%) Big Data
5 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) JUnit
2 7 (9.09%) GitLab
3 6 (7.79%) Git
4 5 (6.49%) Bitbucket
4 5 (6.49%) JIRA
5 3 (3.90%) Balsamiq
6 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.60%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (7.79%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.19%) Military
4 3 (3.90%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Finance
5 2 (2.60%) Games
6 1 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 59 (76.62%) Software Engineer
2 16 (20.78%) Senior
3 12 (15.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Senior Software Engineer
4 11 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
4 11 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Embedded Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Lead
5 6 (7.79%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Python Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Principal Software Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Consultant
8 3 (3.90%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.38%) React
2 9 (11.69%) Qt
3 7 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
3 7 (9.09%) Spring
3 7 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.49%) Hibernate
4 5 (6.49%) JSF
5 4 (5.19%) PrimeFaces
6 3 (3.90%) MERN Stack
7 2 (2.60%) .NET
7 2 (2.60%) Middleware
7 2 (2.60%) Node.js
7 2 (2.60%) REST
7 2 (2.60%) Vue
7 2 (2.60%) ZeroMQ
8 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.30%) Express.js
8 1 (1.30%) Kafka
8 1 (1.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.60%) Robotics
4 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.97%) Agile
2 18 (23.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (22.08%) CI/CD
4 16 (20.78%) DevOps
5 11 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
5 11 (14.29%) Microservices
6 10 (12.99%) AI
6 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (11.69%) Coaching
7 9 (11.69%) Digital Signal Processing
7 9 (11.69%) Signal Processing
8 8 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.39%) DevSecOps
8 8 (10.39%) Machine Learning
9 7 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 7 (9.09%) Scrum
9 7 (9.09%) Unit Testing
9 7 (9.09%) User Experience
10 5 (6.49%) Collaborative Engineering
11 4 (5.19%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (40.26%) Python
2 27 (35.06%) Java
3 14 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 14 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 13 (16.88%) C++
5 9 (11.69%) Embedded C++
6 6 (7.79%) Bash
7 5 (6.49%) C
8 4 (5.19%) C#
8 4 (5.19%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.90%) Go
9 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.90%) VBScript
10 1 (1.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (44.16%) Security Cleared
2 23 (29.87%) DV Cleared
3 16 (20.78%) SC Cleared
4 13 (16.88%) Degree
5 3 (3.90%) CITP
5 3 (3.90%) CREST Certified
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (15.58%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.39%) Kibana
3 2 (2.60%) Terraform
4 1 (1.30%) Ansible
4 1 (1.30%) Grafana
4 1 (1.30%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (7.79%) Atlassian
1 6 (7.79%) Oracle