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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 77 13 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 14.08% 13.68% 17.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.58% 14.94% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 69 10 56
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £55,544 £54,063 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,750 £82,625 £87,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 £53,800 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.11% -2.18% -13.73%

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 438 87 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 80.07% 91.58% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 299 49 278
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 30 May 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 11 (14.29%) AWS
1 11 (14.29%) Azure
2 6 (7.79%) GCP
3 2 (2.60%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.30%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.60%) Neo4j
1 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.30%) Big Data
2 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) Gradle
3 2 (2.60%) JUnit
3 2 (2.60%) Mockito
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) Maven
General
1 14 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.19%) Electronics
4 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (66.23%) Software Engineer
2 10 (12.99%) Architect
2 10 (12.99%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (10.39%) Android Engineer
3 8 (10.39%) Android Software Engineer
4 6 (7.79%) Developer
4 6 (7.79%) Java Developer
4 6 (7.79%) Lead
4 6 (7.79%) Senior
5 5 (6.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Graduate
6 4 (5.19%) Graduate Software Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Software Engineering Team Leader
7 3 (3.90%) Software Team Leader
7 3 (3.90%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.60%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.19%) HTML
1 4 (5.19%) React
2 3 (3.90%) RESTful
3 2 (2.60%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.60%) gRPC
3 2 (2.60%) MERN Stack
3 2 (2.60%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (2.60%) REST
3 2 (2.60%) Spring
3 2 (2.60%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.30%) .NET
4 1 (1.30%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.30%) JPA
4 1 (1.30%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Cyberattack
2 6 (7.79%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.79%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.60%) PKI
4 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.60%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.57%) DevOps
2 13 (16.88%) Agile
2 13 (16.88%) CI/CD
3 10 (12.99%) ITIL
3 10 (12.99%) Line Management
3 10 (12.99%) Mentoring
3 10 (12.99%) Time Management
3 10 (12.99%) TOGAF
4 7 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (9.09%) DevSecOps
5 6 (7.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (7.79%) Test Automation
6 5 (6.49%) Clean Code
6 5 (6.49%) Containerisation
6 5 (6.49%) Zero Trust
7 4 (5.19%) Computer Science
7 4 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (5.19%) Microservices
7 4 (5.19%) OO
7 4 (5.19%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.97%) Java
2 13 (16.88%) C++
3 11 (14.29%) Kotlin
3 11 (14.29%) Python
4 4 (5.19%) C
4 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.60%) Bash
6 2 (2.60%) Elixir
6 2 (2.60%) Erlang
6 2 (2.60%) Rust
7 1 (1.30%) Scala
7 1 (1.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (48.05%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.08%) DV Cleared
2 17 (22.08%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) NIST
2 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 10 (12.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.79%) Terraform
3 3 (3.90%) Ansible
4 2 (2.60%) Grafana
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.60%) Databricks
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
1 2 (2.60%) VMware
2 1 (1.30%) Atlassian