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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 132 17 82
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 17.35% 12.69% 24.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.12% 14.91% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 109 15 53
10th Percentile £55,544 £53,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 - £90,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -7.69%

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 625 114 316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 82.13% 85.07% 92.67%
Number of salaries quoted 430 73 229
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,500 £32,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -0.66%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £86,250
Gloucestershire median annual salary £57,546 £50,000 £50,750
% change year-on-year +15.09% -1.48% -13.98%

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 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 10 (7.58%) AWS
2 9 (6.82%) Azure
3 6 (4.55%) GCP
4 4 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (1.52%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.30%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.52%) Big Data
2 2 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Git
2 2 (1.52%) GitLab
2 2 (1.52%) Gradle
2 2 (1.52%) JUnit
2 2 (1.52%) Mockito
3 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.76%) Valgrind
General
1 15 (11.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.03%) Electronics
4 4 (3.03%) Finance
5 2 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (79.55%) Software Engineer
2 13 (9.85%) Android Engineer
2 13 (9.85%) Android Software Engineer
3 10 (7.58%) Architect
3 10 (7.58%) Developer
3 10 (7.58%) Java Developer
3 10 (7.58%) Senior
3 10 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
3 10 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (6.82%) Lead
5 7 (5.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 7 (5.30%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 7 (5.30%) Rust Engineer
5 7 (5.30%) Rust Software Engineer
6 6 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (3.79%) PLC Engineer
7 5 (3.79%) PLC Software Engineer
7 5 (3.79%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (3.03%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.03%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.79%) HTML
2 3 (2.27%) REST
3 2 (1.52%) gRPC
3 2 (1.52%) Kafka
3 2 (1.52%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (1.52%) React
3 2 (1.52%) RESTful
4 1 (0.76%) Backbone.js
4 1 (0.76%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.76%) CSS
4 1 (0.76%) Next.js
4 1 (0.76%) Node.js
4 1 (0.76%) Spring
4 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.58%) Cyberattack
1 10 (7.58%) Public Cloud
2 7 (5.30%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.52%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.52%) PKI
4 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.52%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.39%) Android
2 4 (3.03%) Linux
3 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (14.39%) Agile
1 19 (14.39%) DevOps
2 14 (10.61%) CI/CD
3 12 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (7.58%) ITIL
4 10 (7.58%) Line Management
4 10 (7.58%) Open Source
4 10 (7.58%) Test Automation
4 10 (7.58%) Time Management
4 10 (7.58%) TOGAF
5 9 (6.82%) Mentoring
6 8 (6.06%) Clean Code
6 8 (6.06%) DevSecOps
7 7 (5.30%) Android Development
7 7 (5.30%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (5.30%) SDLC
7 7 (5.30%) SFIA
8 6 (4.55%) Containerisation
8 6 (4.55%) Zero Trust
9 5 (3.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (21.21%) Java
2 25 (18.94%) C++
3 18 (13.64%) Python
4 15 (11.36%) Kotlin
5 11 (8.33%) Rust
6 6 (4.55%) C
6 6 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.52%) Scala
7 2 (1.52%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 58 (43.94%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.45%) DV Cleared
3 23 (17.42%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.58%) NIST
2 2 (1.52%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.55%) Terraform
3 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (3.03%) Databricks
2 2 (1.52%) Atlassian
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.52%) VMware