Software Engineering Jobs in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 -7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 336 203 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 19.18% 15.54% 12.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.03% 16.01% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 264 96 59
10th Percentile £27,500 £44,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £52,188 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,250 £75,250
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,525 1,268 1,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.04% 97.09% 96.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,081 504 737
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,813 £63,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £71,250
South West median annual salary £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Gloucestershire.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Gloucestershire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 April 2024. 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 -5 76 £57,500 -13.21% 3
Cheltenham -2 72 £60,000 -7.69% 23
Berkeley - 9 £30,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -7 7 £58,750 +30.56%
Wotton-under-Edge -4 4 £40,000 +66.67% 1
Filton - 3 £67,500 -
Software Engineering
South West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 89 (26.49%) Confluence
2 24 (7.14%) Apache
3 13 (3.87%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) GNU Octave
1 2 (0.60%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 106 (31.55%) AWS
2 83 (24.70%) Azure
3 23 (6.85%) OpenShift
4 20 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (5.95%) GCP
4 20 (5.95%) Serverless
5 13 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (2.08%) SaaS
7 6 (1.79%) npm
8 4 (1.19%) PaaS
9 3 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.89%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.89%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.60%) IaaS
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (0.30%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.06%) AMQP
2 3 (0.89%) Network Security
3 2 (0.60%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.60%) Wireless
4 1 (0.30%) Internet
4 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.46%) Big Data
2 14 (4.17%) Hadoop
3 13 (3.87%) Cloudera CDH
4 10 (2.98%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.89%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Accumulo
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 95 (28.27%) Git
2 92 (27.38%) JIRA
3 89 (26.49%) Bitbucket
3 89 (26.49%) Visual Studio
4 59 (17.56%) Sourcetree
5 19 (5.65%) Jenkins
6 9 (2.68%) GitLab
7 8 (2.38%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.38%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.38%) Selenium
8 6 (1.79%) Storybook
9 2 (0.60%) PetaLinux
9 2 (0.60%) Subversion
9 2 (0.60%) TestRail
10 1 (0.30%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.30%) GCC
10 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.30%) JUnit
10 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 88 (26.19%) Games
1 88 (26.19%) Presentation Skills
2 35 (10.42%) Aerospace
3 15 (4.46%) Manufacturing
4 13 (3.87%) Finance
5 11 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.98%) Social Skills
7 6 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (0.89%) Legal
10 1 (0.30%) Automotive
10 1 (0.30%) Aviation
10 1 (0.30%) Electronics
10 1 (0.30%) Military
10 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 204 (60.71%) Software Engineer
2 105 (31.25%) Developer
3 93 (27.68%) Senior
4 88 (26.19%) 3D Developer
4 88 (26.19%) Games Developer
4 88 (26.19%) Unity 3D Developer
5 59 (17.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 54 (16.07%) Embedded Engineer
7 53 (15.77%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 43 (12.80%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 33 (9.82%) Senior Developer
10 30 (8.93%) Senior Games Developer
11 22 (6.55%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 21 (6.25%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 13 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (2.98%) Principal Engineer
14 10 (2.98%) Principal Software Engineer
15 9 (2.68%) C++ Software Engineer
16 8 (2.38%) Java Engineer
16 8 (2.38%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (26.19%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 60 (17.86%) React
3 47 (13.99%) AngularJS
4 34 (10.12%) Spring
5 31 (9.23%) Node.js
6 21 (6.25%) .NET
6 21 (6.25%) Spring Boot
7 17 (5.06%) OpenAPI
7 17 (5.06%) Swagger
8 16 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (4.17%) REST
10 13 (3.87%) gRPC
10 13 (3.87%) Material-UI
11 11 (3.27%) Apache NiFi
11 11 (3.27%) STL
12 7 (2.08%) CSS
13 6 (1.79%) Blazor
13 6 (1.79%) RESTful
13 6 (1.79%) Sass
13 6 (1.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 88 (26.19%) Virtual Reality
2 18 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.98%) Private Cloud
4 9 (2.68%) FPGA
5 4 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (0.89%) NHS
7 2 (0.60%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.60%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.60%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.60%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.60%) VHDL
7 2 (0.60%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.30%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.30%) IoT
8 1 (0.30%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.30%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 67 (19.94%) Linux
2 27 (8.04%) Embedded Linux
3 13 (3.87%) CentOS
3 13 (3.87%) Debian
3 13 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (3.87%) Ubuntu
3 13 (3.87%) Windows
4 4 (1.19%) Android
5 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.30%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (41.96%) Scrum
2 108 (32.14%) DevOps
3 101 (30.06%) Agile
4 91 (27.08%) Design Patterns
5 88 (26.19%) UML
5 88 (26.19%) Use Case
6 51 (15.18%) Cybersecurity
6 51 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
8 46 (13.69%) Full Stack Development
9 34 (10.12%) CI/CD
10 32 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
11 31 (9.23%) Containerisation
12 25 (7.44%) Kanban
13 24 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (7.14%) Open Source
14 23 (6.85%) Systems Engineering
15 22 (6.55%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (6.25%) SDLC
16 21 (6.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 131 (38.99%) Python
2 118 (35.12%) C#
3 110 (32.74%) Java
4 91 (27.08%) JavaScript
5 51 (15.18%) C
6 46 (13.69%) C++
7 31 (9.23%) Rust
8 27 (8.04%) Bash
9 26 (7.74%) Embedded C
10 18 (5.36%) SQL
10 18 (5.36%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.49%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.89%) Go
13 2 (0.60%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.30%) Perl
14 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.30%) R
14 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 235 (69.94%) Security Cleared
2 130 (38.69%) SC Cleared
3 101 (30.06%) Degree
4 88 (26.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 63 (18.75%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 12 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 37 (11.01%) Docker
2 10 (2.98%) Firmware
3 9 (2.68%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (11.61%) Kubernetes
2 29 (8.63%) Terraform
3 27 (8.04%) Ansible
4 13 (3.87%) Puppet
5 3 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.89%) Grafana
5 3 (0.89%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 93 (27.68%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.87%) Google
2 13 (3.87%) Red Hat
2 13 (3.87%) SaltStack
3 3 (0.89%) SmartStream
4 2 (0.60%) VMware
4 2 (0.60%) Xilinx
5 1 (0.30%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.30%) Coverity
5 1 (0.30%) ESRI
5 1 (0.30%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle
5 1 (0.30%) Samsung
5 1 (0.30%) Xamarin