Software Engineer Job Trends in Cheshire

Software Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Software Engineer salary in Cheshire is £74,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 24 45
Rank change year-on-year 0 +21 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 84 54 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 10.74% 5.81% 2.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.80% 6.11% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6 34 12
10th Percentile £57,375 £50,000 £65,100
25th Percentile £64,813 - £67,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £55,000 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year +35.91% -27.32% +8.10%
75th Percentile £96,063 £60,000 £94,063
90th Percentile £101,250 £65,875 £102,500
North West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - +9.09%

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 656 884 468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.89% 95.05% 97.50%
Number of salaries quoted 355 519 348
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £23,850
25th Percentile £32,250 £37,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -6.25% +7.87%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £77,650
North West median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Cheshire

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 Software Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 October 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 +2 7 £75,000 +0.67% 2
Chester -15 6 £82,500 +37.50% 4
Macclesfield - 4 £50,000 - 1
Warrington +18 3 - - 17
Ellesmere Port +5 3 - - 1
Crewe +3 3 - -
Northwich - 3 - -
Runcorn - 3 - -
Widnes - 3 - -
Wilmslow - 3 - -
Sandbach - 2 - -
Middlewich - 2 - -
Congleton - 2 - - 1
Winsford - 1 - -
Software Engineer
North West

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 22 October 2025, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 79 (94.05%) Java
3 78 (92.86%) JavaScript
4 76 (90.48%) AWS
4 76 (90.48%) Microservices
5 75 (89.29%) Agile
5 75 (89.29%) Azure
6 57 (67.86%) CI/CD
6 57 (67.86%) CSS
6 57 (67.86%) Docker
6 57 (67.86%) HTML
6 57 (67.86%) React
6 57 (67.86%) Redux
7 56 (66.67%) SDLC
7 56 (66.67%) Spring
7 56 (66.67%) Spring Boot
7 56 (66.67%) SQL
7 56 (66.67%) Test Automation
8 55 (65.48%) Bitbucket
8 55 (65.48%) Containerisation
8 55 (65.48%) Cucumber
8 55 (65.48%) DevOps
8 55 (65.48%) Front End Development
8 55 (65.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 55 (65.48%) GitLab
8 55 (65.48%) JIRA
8 55 (65.48%) JPA
8 55 (65.48%) Kafka
8 55 (65.48%) Kubernetes
8 55 (65.48%) Maven

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 76 (90.48%) AWS
2 75 (89.29%) Azure
3 41 (48.81%) GCP
4 2 (2.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (65.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 55 (65.48%) Bitbucket
1 55 (65.48%) Cucumber
1 55 (65.48%) GitLab
1 55 (65.48%) JIRA
1 55 (65.48%) Maven
1 55 (65.48%) Selenium
1 55 (65.48%) SonarQube
1 55 (65.48%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.38%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 75 (89.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 58 (69.05%) Finance
3 57 (67.86%) Banking
4 34 (40.48%) Corporate Banking
4 34 (40.48%) Investment Banking
4 34 (40.48%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (67.86%) CSS
1 57 (67.86%) HTML
1 57 (67.86%) React
1 57 (67.86%) Redux
2 56 (66.67%) Spring
2 56 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 55 (65.48%) JPA
3 55 (65.48%) Kafka
4 36 (42.86%) CSS3
4 36 (42.86%) HTML5
4 36 (42.86%) Jest
5 35 (41.67%) RESTful
6 34 (40.48%) REST
6 34 (40.48%) Sass
7 21 (25.00%) Hibernate
8 20 (23.81%) .NET
8 20 (23.81%) Node.js
9 2 (2.38%) Playwright
10 1 (1.19%) OAuth2
10 1 (1.19%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 55 (65.48%) Enterprise Software
1 55 (65.48%) Product Ownership
2 20 (23.81%) Cyberattack
2 20 (23.81%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (23.81%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.38%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.19%) PKI
4 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (23.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 76 (90.48%) Microservices
3 75 (89.29%) Agile
4 57 (67.86%) CI/CD
5 56 (66.67%) SDLC
5 56 (66.67%) Test Automation
6 55 (65.48%) Containerisation
6 55 (65.48%) DevOps
6 55 (65.48%) Front End Development
6 55 (65.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 55 (65.48%) Performance Optimisation
7 54 (64.29%) Mentoring
7 54 (64.29%) User Experience
8 35 (41.67%) Strategic Thinking
9 34 (40.48%) Migration
9 34 (40.48%) Responsive Web Design
10 22 (26.19%) Scrum
11 21 (25.00%) Clean Code
11 21 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 79 (94.05%) Java
2 78 (92.86%) JavaScript
3 56 (66.67%) SQL
4 36 (42.86%) TypeScript
5 20 (23.81%) C++
5 20 (23.81%) Go
5 20 (23.81%) Python
5 20 (23.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (23.81%) AWS Certification
1 20 (23.81%) AWS Certified Developer
1 20 (23.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 20 (23.81%) DV Cleared
1 20 (23.81%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (65.48%) QA
2 34 (40.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 57 (67.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (65.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.38%) Grafana
3 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (65.48%) Solace
2 1 (1.19%) ForgeRock
30 Software Engineer jobs in Cheshire