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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 176 18 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 19.13% 12.86% 26.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.04% 16.36% 28.83%
Number of salaries quoted 139 18 44
10th Percentile £55,544 £52,500 £39,125
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,313 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% +8.93% +16.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 - £90,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £79,000 £70,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +12.86% +5.66% +6.00%

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 732 110 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 79.57% 78.57% 92.43%
Number of salaries quoted 525 71 157
10th Percentile £42,200 £27,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £83,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £51,250 £54,000
% change year-on-year +26.83% -5.09% -6.09%

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 24 September 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 15 (8.52%) AWS
2 14 (7.95%) Azure
3 6 (3.41%) GCP
4 4 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.14%) GitHub
5 2 (1.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.98%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.14%) Big Data
3 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (9.09%) Git
2 6 (3.41%) GitLab
2 6 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.14%) Gradle
3 2 (1.14%) JIRA
3 2 (1.14%) JUnit
3 2 (1.14%) Mockito
3 2 (1.14%) TestRail
3 2 (1.14%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.57%) Valgrind
General
1 17 (9.66%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.82%) Finance
3 7 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (2.84%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.14%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 140 (79.55%) Software Engineer
2 14 (7.95%) Lead
3 13 (7.39%) Android Engineer
3 13 (7.39%) Android Software Engineer
3 13 (7.39%) Senior
4 12 (6.82%) Developer
5 11 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
6 10 (5.68%) C++ Software Engineer
6 10 (5.68%) Java Developer
6 10 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (4.55%) Security Engineer
8 7 (3.98%) Architect
8 7 (3.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (3.98%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 7 (3.98%) Rust Engineer
8 7 (3.98%) Rust Software Engineer
8 7 (3.98%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 7 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.41%) Graduate
9 6 (3.41%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.55%) Terraform
2 6 (3.41%) RESTful
3 3 (1.70%) HTML
3 3 (1.70%) React
3 3 (1.70%) REST
4 2 (1.14%) Backbone.js
4 2 (1.14%) gRPC
4 2 (1.14%) Kafka
4 2 (1.14%) Next.js
4 2 (1.14%) Node.js
4 2 (1.14%) Playwright
4 2 (1.14%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (1.14%) Spring
4 2 (1.14%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.57%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (0.57%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.57%) CSS
5 1 (0.57%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (0.57%) MEAN Stack
5 1 (0.57%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.80%) Public Cloud
2 7 (3.98%) Cyberattack
3 5 (2.84%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.14%) PKI
6 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.14%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.50%) Android
2 12 (6.82%) Linux
3 3 (1.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.14%) Windows
5 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.05%) Agile
2 24 (13.64%) DevOps
3 22 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 20 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (10.80%) Open Source
6 18 (10.23%) Test Automation
7 15 (8.52%) DevSecOps
8 14 (7.95%) Containerisation
8 14 (7.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (6.25%) Code Quality
9 11 (6.25%) Mentoring
10 10 (5.68%) Microservices
10 10 (5.68%) SDLC
11 9 (5.11%) Clean Code
12 8 (4.55%) Android Development
12 8 (4.55%) Computer Science
12 8 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (4.55%) Project Delivery
13 7 (3.98%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (21.02%) C++
2 31 (17.61%) Java
3 26 (14.77%) Python
4 16 (9.09%) Kotlin
5 15 (8.52%) Rust
6 13 (7.39%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.11%) C
8 7 (3.98%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.14%) C#
9 2 (1.14%) Scala
10 1 (0.57%) Go
10 1 (0.57%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 77 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 39 (22.16%) DV Cleared
3 24 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.39%) Degree
5 6 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.98%) NIST
2 5 (2.84%) QA
3 4 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (7.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.70%) Ansible
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (2.27%) Databricks
2 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.14%) VMware