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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 15 4
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 +14
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 246 73 311
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 14.51% 13.67% 18.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.57% 15.40% 22.03%
Number of salaries quoted 173 41 233
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,750
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.62% -11.86%

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 1,325 474 1,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 78.17% 88.76% 84.20%
Number of salaries quoted 876 267 1,047
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,375 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -12.66%
75th Percentile £75,754 £70,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,396
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.57% -2.97%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +7 108 £80,000 +3.23% 36
Gloucester -10 37 £57,500 -22.03% 20
Stroud - 19 £70,000 -
Filton +2 4 £40,000 -23.95% 6
Tewkesbury -7 4 £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 11 (4.47%) Apache
2 3 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.41%) CMS
3 1 (0.41%) Confluence
3 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.41%) nginx
3 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.57%) AWS
2 18 (7.32%) Azure
3 12 (4.88%) GCP
4 6 (2.44%) OpenShift
5 5 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.22%) Serverless
7 2 (0.81%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.81%) Azure AKS
7 2 (0.81%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (0.81%) GitHub
7 2 (0.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.41%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.47%) Wireless
2 3 (1.22%) AMQP
3 2 (0.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (4.88%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.07%) Big Data
4 6 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.03%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.63%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.63%) MySQL
7 3 (1.22%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (1.22%) Redis
8 2 (0.81%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.41%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 18 (7.32%) Git
2 13 (5.28%) GitLab
3 9 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.66%) SonarQube
4 8 (3.25%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.63%) Gradle
5 4 (1.63%) JIRA
6 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.81%) JUnit
7 2 (0.81%) Maven
7 2 (0.81%) Mockito
7 2 (0.81%) Subversion
8 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.41%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.41%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (8.94%) Social Skills
2 12 (4.88%) Aerospace
3 11 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.03%) Electronics
6 3 (1.22%) Finance
6 3 (1.22%) Games
6 3 (1.22%) Public Sector
7 2 (0.81%) Law
7 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (84.96%) Software Engineer
2 32 (13.01%) Senior
2 32 (13.01%) Senior Software Engineer
3 24 (9.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 24 (9.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 13 (5.28%) Developer
4 13 (5.28%) Embedded Engineer
4 13 (5.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 13 (5.28%) Lead
5 12 (4.88%) Android Engineer
5 12 (4.88%) Android Software Engineer
5 12 (4.88%) Architect
5 12 (4.88%) Java Engineer
5 12 (4.88%) Java Software Engineer
5 12 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.07%) Java Developer
6 10 (4.07%) Lead Software Engineer
7 9 (3.66%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 6 (2.44%) Graduate
8 6 (2.44%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.69%) Vue
2 12 (4.88%) React
2 12 (4.88%) REST
3 10 (4.07%) AngularJS
4 9 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (3.66%) HTML
4 9 (3.66%) Spring
4 9 (3.66%) Spring Boot
5 8 (3.25%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (3.25%) Node.js
6 7 (2.85%) RESTful
7 5 (2.03%) gRPC
8 3 (1.22%) Kafka
8 3 (1.22%) Middleware
8 3 (1.22%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.22%) OpenGL
8 3 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.22%) Swagger
8 3 (1.22%) Vulkan
8 3 (1.22%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.07%) Cyberattack
2 10 (4.07%) Public Cloud
3 7 (2.85%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (2.03%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.22%) 3D Graphics
6 3 (1.22%) CUDA
6 3 (1.22%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.22%) Thin Client
7 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.81%) PKI
7 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.81%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.41%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.41%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.94%) Linux
2 14 (5.69%) Android
3 10 (4.07%) Windows
4 3 (1.22%) CentOS
4 3 (1.22%) Debian
4 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.22%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.41%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (24.39%) DevOps
2 55 (22.36%) Agile
3 39 (15.85%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (14.23%) CI/CD
5 27 (10.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 26 (10.57%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (8.94%) AI
8 20 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (6.91%) Collaborative Culture
10 16 (6.50%) Secure Coding
10 16 (6.50%) Test Automation
11 14 (5.69%) Clean Code
11 14 (5.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (5.69%) Data Science
11 14 (5.69%) Mentoring
12 13 (5.28%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (4.88%) Containerisation
13 12 (4.88%) Line Management
13 12 (4.88%) Microservices
14 11 (4.47%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 64 (26.02%) Java
2 53 (21.54%) Python
3 45 (18.29%) C++
4 26 (10.57%) JavaScript
5 21 (8.54%) Rust
6 17 (6.91%) C
7 16 (6.50%) Kotlin
7 16 (6.50%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.28%) Bash
8 13 (5.28%) Go
9 4 (1.63%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.22%) C#
10 3 (1.22%) GLSL
10 3 (1.22%) Scala
11 2 (0.81%) SQL
12 1 (0.41%) Elixir
12 1 (0.41%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.41%) Erlang
12 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 108 (43.90%) Security Cleared
2 56 (22.76%) DV Cleared
3 52 (21.14%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.69%) Degree
5 5 (2.03%) CEH
5 5 (2.03%) OSCP
6 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.07%) NIST
2 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 12 (4.88%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (8.54%) Terraform
2 20 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 18 (7.32%) Ansible
4 9 (3.66%) Grafana
5 8 (3.25%) Kibana
5 8 (3.25%) logstash
6 3 (1.22%) Puppet
6 3 (1.22%) SCCM
6 3 (1.22%) SCOM
6 3 (1.22%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.81%) Rancher
8 1 (0.41%) Podman
8 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (2.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.63%) Google
3 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.22%) SaltStack
4 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.81%) Databricks
4 2 (0.81%) VMware