Systems Engineering Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Systems Engineering
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 34 86
Rank change year-on-year -14 +52 +5
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 9 47 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.39% 7.42% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 8.01% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6 31 2
10th Percentile £41,500 £48,000 £46,375
25th Percentile £45,500 £52,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -2.13% -9.62%
75th Percentile £77,500 £59,625 £65,313
90th Percentile - £61,250 £68,125
South West median annual salary £65,000 £58,000 £62,750
% change year-on-year +12.07% -7.57% -5.28%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

Systems 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 489 587 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 75.46% 92.73% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 345 241 539
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,688
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,250 £77,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Systems Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Systems Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in Gloucestershire

Systems 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 Systems Engineering within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Filton -7 5 £43,000 -25.22% 1
Cheltenham - 1 £65,000 - 2
Systems Engineering
South West

Systems 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Balsamiq
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 3 (33.33%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
1 3 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) AI
1 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
1 4 (44.44%) User Experience
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Vision
2 3 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Data Science
2 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 3 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
2 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (33.33%) Physics
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) UX Design
2 3 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) C#
1 3 (33.33%) Go
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) VBScript
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) Degree
3 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (33.33%) CITP
4 3 (33.33%) CREST Certified
5 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) IBM