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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 25 29 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 13.30% 20.57% 19.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.08% 22.14% 20.63%
Number of salaries quoted 23 15 43
10th Percentile £48,750 £40,000 £44,250
25th Percentile £51,875 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £86,875 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,250 £88,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 £57,560 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.61% +9.64% -8.70%

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 131 131 383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 69.68% 92.91% 92.96%
Number of salaries quoted 95 63 235
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £32,255
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,000 £85,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -4.55%

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 21 January 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (16.00%) Serverless
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (12.00%) Neo4j
2 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (4.00%) Gradle
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.00%) Maven
General
1 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.00%) Games
2 1 (4.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) C Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Python Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead
7 1 (4.00%) Principal Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) React
2 7 (28.00%) Spring
2 7 (28.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (16.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (12.00%) MERN Stack
5 2 (8.00%) .NET
5 2 (8.00%) RESTful
6 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (4.00%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.00%) Jest
6 1 (4.00%) JPA
6 1 (4.00%) Kafka
6 1 (4.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Blockchain
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (40.00%) DevOps
2 9 (36.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (32.00%) AI
3 8 (32.00%) Machine Learning
3 8 (32.00%) Microservices
4 6 (24.00%) Coaching
5 5 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (20.00%) Collaborative Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Agile
6 4 (16.00%) User Experience
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
8 2 (8.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 2 (8.00%) DevSecOps
8 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) Java
2 13 (52.00%) Python
3 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (24.00%) Kotlin
4 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (12.00%) C
6 2 (8.00%) Bash
6 2 (8.00%) Elixir
6 2 (8.00%) Erlang
7 1 (4.00%) C#
7 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (44.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Grafana
2 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Kibana