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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 8 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 74 16 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 14.86% 17.98% 17.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.02% 20.25% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 67 12 60
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,544 £53,438 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% +10.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,000 £88,875
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 £53,800 £52,500
% change year-on-year +30.11% +2.48% -19.23%

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 389 79 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 78.11% 88.76% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 272 49 291
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,927 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.12% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £83,750
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 4 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 12 (16.22%) AWS
2 9 (12.16%) Azure
3 3 (4.05%) GCP
4 1 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (4.05%) Neo4j
2 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Git
2 3 (4.05%) Gradle
3 2 (2.70%) JUnit
3 2 (2.70%) Mockito
4 1 (1.35%) Maven
General
1 14 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.41%) Electronics
4 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 49 (66.22%) Software Engineer
2 10 (13.51%) Architect
2 10 (13.51%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (9.46%) Android Engineer
3 7 (9.46%) Android Software Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) Developer
4 6 (8.11%) Java Developer
4 6 (8.11%) Senior
5 5 (6.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Graduate
6 4 (5.41%) Graduate Software Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Python Software Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) C Software Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Software Engineering Team Leader
8 2 (2.70%) Software Team Leader
8 2 (2.70%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.41%) HTML
1 4 (5.41%) React
2 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.05%) MERN Stack
2 3 (4.05%) RESTful
3 2 (2.70%) gRPC
3 2 (2.70%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (2.70%) REST
3 2 (2.70%) Spring
3 2 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.35%) .NET
4 1 (1.35%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.35%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.51%) Cyberattack
2 6 (8.11%) Algorithms
2 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.70%) Blockchain
3 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.70%) PKI
3 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.70%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.03%) DevOps
2 10 (13.51%) ITIL
2 10 (13.51%) Line Management
2 10 (13.51%) Time Management
2 10 (13.51%) TOGAF
3 9 (12.16%) CI/CD
3 9 (12.16%) Mentoring
4 8 (10.81%) Agile
4 8 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (8.11%) DevSecOps
5 6 (8.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (6.76%) AI
6 5 (6.76%) Machine Learning
6 5 (6.76%) Test Automation
7 4 (5.41%) Collaborative Engineering
7 4 (5.41%) Computer Science
7 4 (5.41%) Containerisation
7 4 (5.41%) OO
7 4 (5.41%) OOP
7 4 (5.41%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.38%) Java
2 17 (22.97%) Python
3 12 (16.22%) C++
3 12 (16.22%) Kotlin
4 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.76%) C
6 4 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.70%) Bash
7 2 (2.70%) Elixir
7 2 (2.70%) Erlang
7 2 (2.70%) Rust
8 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.03%) DV Cleared
3 18 (24.32%) SC Cleared
4 10 (13.51%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (12.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.76%) Terraform
3 2 (2.70%) Ansible
3 2 (2.70%) Grafana
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft
1 2 (2.70%) VMware
2 1 (1.35%) Databricks