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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 76 12 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 14.05% 13.33% 18.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.63% 14.63% 20.17%
Number of salaries quoted 69 9 59
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,544 £53,750 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,750 £84,000 £88,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 £52,600 £55,000
% change year-on-year +33.08% -4.36% -15.38%

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 431 82 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 79.67% 91.11% 92.63%
Number of salaries quoted 294 46 282
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
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 24 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 8 (10.53%) AWS
1 8 (10.53%) Azure
2 3 (3.95%) GCP
3 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (1.32%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (2.63%) Neo4j
1 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.32%) Big Data
2 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Git
2 3 (3.95%) Gradle
3 2 (2.63%) JUnit
3 2 (2.63%) Mockito
4 1 (1.32%) GitLab
4 1 (1.32%) Maven
General
1 14 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.26%) Electronics
4 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 50 (65.79%) Software Engineer
2 10 (13.16%) Architect
2 10 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (10.53%) Android Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Android Software Engineer
4 6 (7.89%) Developer
4 6 (7.89%) Java Developer
4 6 (7.89%) Lead
4 6 (7.89%) Senior
5 5 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Graduate
6 4 (5.26%) Graduate Software Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Software Engineering Team Leader
7 3 (3.95%) Software Team Leader
7 3 (3.95%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.26%) HTML
2 3 (3.95%) React
2 3 (3.95%) RESTful
3 2 (2.63%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.63%) gRPC
3 2 (2.63%) MERN Stack
3 2 (2.63%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (2.63%) REST
3 2 (2.63%) Spring
3 2 (2.63%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.32%) .NET
4 1 (1.32%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.32%) JPA
4 1 (1.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Cyberattack
2 6 (7.89%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.63%) PKI
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (26.32%) DevOps
2 10 (13.16%) Agile
2 10 (13.16%) CI/CD
2 10 (13.16%) ITIL
2 10 (13.16%) Line Management
2 10 (13.16%) Mentoring
2 10 (13.16%) Time Management
2 10 (13.16%) TOGAF
3 7 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (9.21%) DevSecOps
4 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (6.58%) Clean Code
5 5 (6.58%) Test Automation
5 5 (6.58%) Zero Trust
6 4 (5.26%) Computer Science
6 4 (5.26%) Containerisation
6 4 (5.26%) OO
6 4 (5.26%) OOP
7 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (3.95%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.68%) Java
2 12 (15.79%) C++
3 11 (14.47%) Kotlin
3 11 (14.47%) Python
4 4 (5.26%) C
5 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.63%) Bash
6 2 (2.63%) Elixir
6 2 (2.63%) Erlang
6 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.63%) Rust
7 1 (1.32%) Scala
7 1 (1.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 16 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 10 (13.16%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.16%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.58%) Terraform
3 2 (2.63%) Ansible
3 2 (2.63%) Grafana
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
1 2 (2.63%) VMware
2 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.32%) Databricks