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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +30
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 15 72 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 16.67% 17.91% 16.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.29% 19.15% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 12 60 41
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,438 £46,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +10.67%
75th Percentile £76,875 £77,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £81,000 £88,875 £84,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.36% -12.00% +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 82 376 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 91.11% 93.53% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 48 285 202
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £33,125
25th Percentile £46,625 £43,750 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +33.21%
75th Percentile £76,875 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,250 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.20% -9.09% +10.00%

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 15 May 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 (6.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) JUnit
General
1 1 (6.67%) Finance
1 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Scientist
4 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) React
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
1 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (13.33%) Data Science
5 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
5 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
5 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Open Source
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 2 (13.33%) Statistics
5 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
6 1 (6.67%) OpenUP
6 1 (6.67%) Rapid Prototyping
6 1 (6.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 6 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (20.00%) C++
5 2 (13.33%) Go
6 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
6 1 (6.67%) MATLAB
6 1 (6.67%) R
6 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Degree
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle