Defensive Programming Job Trends in Cheltenham

Defensive Programming
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Defensive Programming skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Defensive Programming 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £86,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £82,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

Defensive Programming 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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 585 113 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 82.51% 84.96% 92.43%
Number of salaries quoted 406 72 265
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,500 £32,200
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -13.04%

Defensive Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Defensive Programming relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Defensive Programming job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Defensive Programming
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Defensive Programming.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Defensive Programming

Defensive Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian