Software Engineering Jobs in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 7 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 17 95 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 13.71% 21.84% 15.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.89% 23.81% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 15 64 30
10th Percentile £53,000 £44,250 £49,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.46% +18.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,813 £82,500
90th Percentile - £90,000 £82,650
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.36% -15.38% +18.18%

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 107 399 358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 86.29% 91.72% 97.55%
Number of salaries quoted 66 289 197
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £34,200
25th Percentile £48,125 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -9.54% +34.99%
75th Percentile £93,125 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -11.50% +13.00%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheltenham.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Cheltenham

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 4 July 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Big Data
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JUnit
General
1 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
1 1 (5.88%) Finance
1 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Software Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Senior
3 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 6 (35.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (29.41%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (29.41%) Principal Software Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Data Scientist
6 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) React
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
2 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
2 3 (17.65%) Data Science
2 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
3 2 (11.76%) Agile
3 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
3 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
3 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
3 2 (11.76%) Microservices
3 2 (11.76%) MLOps
3 2 (11.76%) Statistics
3 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.88%) Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (5.88%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (5.88%) OpenUP
4 1 (5.88%) Signal Processing
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 4 (23.53%) C++
4 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.76%) Go
6 1 (5.88%) MATLAB
6 1 (5.88%) R
6 1 (5.88%) Rust
6 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) DV Cleared
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle