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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 4 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 18 80 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.77% 26.76% 18.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.07% 28.88% 19.76%
Number of salaries quoted 18 45 29
10th Percentile £52,500 £39,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,313 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £72,000
90th Percentile - £90,000 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% +2.00% +13.64%

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 112 277 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 79.43% 92.64% 93.39%
Number of salaries quoted 72 164 168
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £31,839
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £87,813 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,200 £80,225
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +15.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering 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 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 4 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (22.22%) Serverless
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JUnit
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Principal Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Principal Software Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Senior
3 6 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Developer
6 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) React
2 6 (33.33%) Spring
2 6 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) Jest
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
4 1 (5.56%) Redux
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (27.78%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) Coaching
4 4 (22.22%) Machine Learning
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (16.67%) User Experience
6 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 1 (5.56%) Anomaly Detection
7 1 (5.56%) Computer Vision
7 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
7 1 (5.56%) Data Science
7 1 (5.56%) Edge Computing
7 1 (5.56%) MLOps
7 1 (5.56%) Natural Language Processing
7 1 (5.56%) Secure Coding
7 1 (5.56%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) C++
2 3 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) DV Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle