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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 193 19 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 20.91% 15.57% 25.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.19% 20.21% 27.41%
Number of salaries quoted 130 19 37
10th Percentile £58,625 £52,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 - £90,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +20.00% -

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 737 94 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 79.85% 77.05% 91.84%
Number of salaries quoted 511 64 148
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,975 £32,050
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,188 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £96,250 £86,563 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,500 £83,250
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% -4.35%

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 12 October 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.36%) AWS
2 18 (9.33%) Azure
3 6 (3.11%) GCP
4 5 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.07%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.07%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (2.07%) GitHub
6 2 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.63%) MongoDB
2 5 (2.59%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.07%) Big Data
3 4 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.07%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (6.74%) Git
2 9 (4.66%) GitLab
3 7 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.04%) JIRA
4 2 (1.04%) TestRail
4 2 (1.04%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.52%) Gradle
5 1 (0.52%) JUnit
5 1 (0.52%) Mockito
5 1 (0.52%) Valgrind
General
1 12 (6.22%) Finance
2 10 (5.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (3.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 149 (77.20%) Software Engineer
2 23 (11.92%) Lead
3 20 (10.36%) Lead Software Engineer
4 18 (9.33%) Senior
5 13 (6.74%) Principal Engineer
6 12 (6.22%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (5.70%) Developer
7 11 (5.70%) Security Engineer
8 10 (5.18%) Android Engineer
8 10 (5.18%) Android Software Engineer
8 10 (5.18%) C++ Software Engineer
8 10 (5.18%) Principal Software Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.15%) Test Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Rust Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Rust Software Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) PLC Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) PLC Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.63%) RESTful
1 7 (3.63%) Terraform
2 5 (2.59%) Kafka
3 3 (1.55%) React
3 3 (1.55%) Spring
3 3 (1.55%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.04%) Backbone.js
4 2 (1.04%) Next.js
4 2 (1.04%) Node.js
4 2 (1.04%) Playwright
4 2 (1.04%) REST
5 1 (0.52%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (0.52%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.52%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.52%) Flask
5 1 (0.52%) Gradio
5 1 (0.52%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (0.52%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.52%) Plotly
5 1 (0.52%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.88%) Public Cloud
2 6 (3.11%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.59%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (1.04%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.52%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.52%) PKI
5 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.52%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.40%) Android
2 17 (8.81%) Linux
3 6 (3.11%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.59%) Windows
5 4 (2.07%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (21.76%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (16.58%) Agile
3 24 (12.44%) CI/CD
4 22 (11.40%) Open Source
5 19 (9.84%) Test Automation
6 16 (8.29%) DevOps
6 16 (8.29%) DevSecOps
7 15 (7.77%) Containerisation
7 15 (7.77%) Microservices
8 13 (6.74%) Code Quality
8 13 (6.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (6.22%) SDLC
10 10 (5.18%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (4.66%) Clean Code
11 9 (4.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (4.66%) Design Patterns
11 9 (4.66%) Mentoring
12 8 (4.15%) Computer Science
12 8 (4.15%) Project Delivery
13 7 (3.63%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.65%) Java
2 35 (18.13%) C++
3 24 (12.44%) Python
4 15 (7.77%) Kotlin
5 14 (7.25%) Rust
6 13 (6.74%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.70%) C
8 7 (3.63%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.07%) Scala
10 2 (1.04%) C#
11 1 (0.52%) Go
11 1 (0.52%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 77 (39.90%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.69%) DV Cleared
3 29 (15.03%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.66%) Degree
5 8 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.11%) QA
2 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (8.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.55%) Ansible
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (2.07%) Atlassian
1 4 (2.07%) Databricks
2 1 (0.52%) Foundry
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.52%) VMware