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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 25 68 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 16.56% 26.77% 20.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.93% 29.31% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 24 35 30
10th Percentile £51,625 £43,500 £43,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +21.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £80,625 £70,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £75,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +9.09%

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 114 232 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 75.50% 91.34% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 89 129 181
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £80,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +6.67%

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 25 November 2025.

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 13 (52.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Serverless
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (8.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (4.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (88.00%) Software Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 8 (32.00%) Principal Engineer
4 7 (28.00%) Principal Software Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) Senior
5 5 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Python Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) C Software Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Lead
8 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) React
2 5 (20.00%) Spring
2 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.00%) MERN Stack
5 1 (4.00%) .NET
5 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (4.00%) Jest
5 1 (4.00%) Kafka
5 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
5 1 (4.00%) Redux
5 1 (4.00%) RESTful
5 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) AI
1 8 (32.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (24.00%) Coaching
2 6 (24.00%) DevOps
2 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (24.00%) Microservices
3 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Engineering
3 4 (16.00%) User Experience
4 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.00%) Decision-Making
6 1 (4.00%) Computer Vision
6 1 (4.00%) Data Science
6 1 (4.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (4.00%) Front End Development
6 1 (4.00%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Java
1 12 (48.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.00%) Kotlin
3 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.00%) C
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) C++
5 1 (4.00%) Go
5 1 (4.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (44.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Kibana