Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Senior Software Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Cheshire is £74,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 78 85
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 15 26 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.10% 1.70% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.88% 1.75% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3 25 5
10th Percentile - £53,750 £53,500
25th Percentile £64,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £84,250 £65,000 £91,250
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -3.23% +7.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 521 1,482 839
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 72.87% 96.93% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 271 1,114 491
10th Percentile - £25,000 £25,420
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £46,074 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.61% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,324 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Cheshire

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Cheshire.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Cheshire

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford +19 2 £74,500 -9.70%
Senior Software Engineer
North West

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Senior Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (93.33%) Java
2 14 (93.33%) AWS
3 13 (86.67%) Go
3 13 (86.67%) Scrum
3 13 (86.67%) Agile
3 13 (86.67%) Azure
3 13 (86.67%) JavaScript
3 13 (86.67%) Microservices
3 13 (86.67%) Rust
3 13 (86.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 13 (86.67%) Cloud Security
4 12 (80.00%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (80.00%) AWS Certification
4 12 (80.00%) GCP
4 12 (80.00%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (80.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (80.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 12 (80.00%) Mentoring
4 12 (80.00%) User Experience
4 12 (80.00%) Data Engineering
4 12 (80.00%) Cyberattack
4 12 (80.00%) .NET
4 12 (80.00%) Linux
4 12 (80.00%) Python
4 12 (80.00%) C++
4 12 (80.00%) DV Cleared
4 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
4 12 (80.00%) Machine Learning

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 14 (93.33%) AWS
2 13 (86.67%) Azure
3 12 (80.00%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) .NET
1 12 (80.00%) Node.js
2 2 (13.33%) OAuth
2 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
2 2 (13.33%) OpenID
3 1 (6.67%) FIDO
3 1 (6.67%) JDBC
3 1 (6.67%) JWT
3 1 (6.67%) Laravel
3 1 (6.67%) SAML
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Cyberattack
1 12 (80.00%) Linux Command Line
1 12 (80.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) PKI
2 1 (6.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 13 (86.67%) Cloud Security
2 13 (86.67%) Microservices
2 13 (86.67%) Scrum
2 13 (86.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 12 (80.00%) Data Engineering
3 12 (80.00%) Machine Learning
3 12 (80.00%) Mentoring
3 12 (80.00%) User Experience
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
5 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (6.67%) Observability
5 1 (6.67%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Java
2 13 (86.67%) Go
2 13 (86.67%) JavaScript
2 13 (86.67%) Rust
3 12 (80.00%) C++
3 12 (80.00%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) AWS Certification
1 12 (80.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 12 (80.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 12 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) ForgeRock
2 1 (6.67%) Ping Identity