Software Engineering Job Trends in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 12 5
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 122 17 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 16.76% 12.69% 23.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.44% 14.91% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 104 15 60
10th Percentile £55,544 £53,500 £44,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +25.93% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £79,063
90th Percentile £95,000 - £90,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 597 114 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 82.01% 85.07% 92.55%
Number of salaries quoted 415 73 260
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,500 £32,450
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -13.04%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
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 9 (7.38%) AWS
1 9 (7.38%) Azure
2 6 (4.92%) GCP
3 4 (3.28%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (1.64%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.64%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.82%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.74%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.64%) Big Data
2 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.64%) Redis
3 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.82%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) Git
2 2 (1.64%) GitLab
2 2 (1.64%) Gradle
2 2 (1.64%) JUnit
2 2 (1.64%) Mockito
3 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.82%) Valgrind
General
1 14 (11.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (3.28%) Electronics
3 4 (3.28%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.82%) Finance
Job Titles
1 95 (77.87%) Software Engineer
2 13 (10.66%) Android Engineer
2 13 (10.66%) Android Software Engineer
3 10 (8.20%) Architect
3 10 (8.20%) Developer
3 10 (8.20%) Java Developer
3 10 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (7.38%) Lead
5 8 (6.56%) Senior
5 8 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Rust Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Rust Software Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Data Scientist
8 4 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (3.28%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.10%) HTML
2 2 (1.64%) gRPC
2 2 (1.64%) Kafka
2 2 (1.64%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (1.64%) React
2 2 (1.64%) REST
2 2 (1.64%) RESTful
3 1 (0.82%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.82%) Bootstrap
3 1 (0.82%) CSS
3 1 (0.82%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.20%) Cyberattack
2 9 (7.38%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.92%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.10%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.64%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.64%) PKI
5 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.64%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.93%) Android
2 1 (0.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (14.75%) DevOps
2 17 (13.93%) Agile
3 12 (9.84%) CI/CD
4 11 (9.02%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (8.20%) ITIL
5 10 (8.20%) Line Management
5 10 (8.20%) Time Management
5 10 (8.20%) TOGAF
6 9 (7.38%) Mentoring
6 9 (7.38%) Open Source
7 7 (5.74%) Clean Code
7 7 (5.74%) SFIA
7 7 (5.74%) Test Automation
8 6 (4.92%) Android Development
8 6 (4.92%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (4.92%) DevSecOps
8 6 (4.92%) Zero Trust
9 5 (4.10%) Computer Science
9 5 (4.10%) SDLC
10 4 (3.28%) Computer Vision
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.31%) Java
2 19 (15.57%) C++
3 15 (12.30%) Kotlin
3 15 (12.30%) Python
4 9 (7.38%) Rust
5 6 (4.92%) C
6 4 (3.28%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.64%) Scala
8 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (41.80%) Security Cleared
2 23 (18.85%) DV Cleared
3 21 (17.21%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.02%) Degree
5 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.20%) NIST
2 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 9 (7.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.92%) Terraform
3 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (3.28%) Databricks
2 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.64%) VMware