Software Engineering Jobs in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +35
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 16 72 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 17.98% 17.14% 18.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.25% 18.27% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12 60 48
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,438 £46,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -7.69% +8.82%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,813 £78,750
90th Percentile £81,000 £88,875 £84,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,600 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -19.23% +18.18%

All Process and 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 79 394 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 88.76% 93.81% 97.38%
Number of salaries quoted 49 291 209
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +33.21%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.20% -9.09% +10.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheltenham.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
General
1 1 (6.25%) Finance
1 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Scientist
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) React
2 2 (12.50%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (12.50%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
4 3 (18.75%) Open Source
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Android Development
5 2 (12.50%) Data Science
5 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) RAD
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) Software Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Statistics
5 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (50.00%) Python
3 6 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 3 (18.75%) Go
5 2 (12.50%) C++
5 2 (12.50%) Kotlin
6 1 (6.25%) MATLAB
6 1 (6.25%) R
6 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (18.75%) Degree
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle