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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 111 18 94
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 16.57% 13.95% 22.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.18% 16.51% 24.87%
Number of salaries quoted 93 16 63
10th Percentile £53,109 £53,125 £44,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +14.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £78,125
90th Percentile £95,000 - £90,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -15.38%

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 550 109 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 82.09% 84.50% 91.97%
Number of salaries quoted 375 68 284
10th Percentile £39,250 £27,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £84,250
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 10 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 8 (7.21%) AWS
1 8 (7.21%) Azure
2 5 (4.50%) GCP
3 2 (1.80%) Amazon S3
3 2 (1.80%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (1.80%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.80%) Big Data
2 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.80%) Redis
3 1 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.90%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) Git
2 3 (2.70%) Gradle
3 2 (1.80%) GitLab
3 2 (1.80%) JUnit
3 2 (1.80%) Mockito
4 1 (0.90%) Maven
General
1 14 (12.61%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (3.60%) Electronics
4 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.90%) Finance
5 1 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 85 (76.58%) Software Engineer
2 12 (10.81%) Android Engineer
2 12 (10.81%) Android Software Engineer
3 10 (9.01%) Architect
3 10 (9.01%) Developer
3 10 (9.01%) Java Developer
3 10 (9.01%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (8.11%) Lead
5 7 (6.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 7 (6.31%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Lead Software Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Rust Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Rust Software Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Senior
6 6 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (3.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (3.60%) Graduate
7 4 (3.60%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 3 (2.70%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.60%) HTML
2 3 (2.70%) RESTful
3 2 (1.80%) gRPC
3 2 (1.80%) Kafka
3 2 (1.80%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (1.80%) React
3 2 (1.80%) REST
4 1 (0.90%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.90%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.90%) JPA
4 1 (0.90%) MERN Stack
4 1 (0.90%) Spring
4 1 (0.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.01%) Cyberattack
2 7 (6.31%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.41%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.50%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.80%) PKI
5 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.80%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.90%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.51%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.02%) DevOps
2 15 (13.51%) Agile
3 11 (9.91%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (9.01%) CI/CD
4 10 (9.01%) ITIL
4 10 (9.01%) Line Management
4 10 (9.01%) Time Management
4 10 (9.01%) TOGAF
5 9 (8.11%) Mentoring
6 8 (7.21%) Test Automation
7 7 (6.31%) DevSecOps
7 7 (6.31%) Open Source
7 7 (6.31%) SFIA
8 6 (5.41%) Clean Code
8 6 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (5.41%) Zero Trust
9 5 (4.50%) Android Development
10 4 (3.60%) Computer Science
10 4 (3.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (3.60%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.23%) Java
2 16 (14.41%) C++
2 16 (14.41%) Python
3 15 (13.51%) Kotlin
4 8 (7.21%) Rust
5 5 (4.50%) C
6 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.80%) Scala
8 1 (0.90%) Bash
8 1 (0.90%) Elixir
8 1 (0.90%) Erlang
8 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 17 (15.32%) DV Cleared
4 10 (9.01%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.01%) NIST
2 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.50%) Terraform
3 2 (1.80%) Ansible
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.90%) Grafana
4 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (1.80%) Atlassian
1 2 (1.80%) Databricks
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft
1 2 (1.80%) VMware