Software Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Software Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Software Engineer salary in Cheshire is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 69 67
Rank change year-on-year +38 -2 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 95 24 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.21% 2.56% 3.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.41% 2.87% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 82 14 10
10th Percentile £45,125 £53,250 £40,388
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,813 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +37.14%
75th Percentile £65,000 £91,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £95,125 £73,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,482 837 984
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.93% 89.33% 93.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,114 489 534
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,420 £24,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,074 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £58,563
90th Percentile £72,324 £88,750 £72,125
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Cheshire

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Cheshire

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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
Chester +21 20 £65,000 +8.33% 10
Warrington -17 15 £60,000 +20.00%
Knutsford -8 8 £97,500 +25.81%
Winsford - 6 £47,500 - 3
Northwich - 2 £50,000 -
Ellesmere Port +9 1 £55,000 -
Macclesfield -5 1 £70,000 -
Runcorn - 1 - -
Software Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (91.58%) Software Engineering
2 28 (29.47%) .NET
3 27 (28.42%) C#
4 26 (27.37%) Degree
5 19 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
5 19 (20.00%) Agile
5 19 (20.00%) Linux
6 17 (17.89%) Windows
6 17 (17.89%) Java
6 17 (17.89%) SDLC
7 16 (16.84%) C++
7 16 (16.84%) Azure
7 16 (16.84%) AWS
7 16 (16.84%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (13.68%) SQL
9 13 (13.68%) JavaScript
10 12 (12.63%) Git
11 11 (11.58%) Docker
11 11 (11.58%) JIRA
11 11 (11.58%) Multithreading
11 11 (11.58%) SQL Server
11 11 (11.58%) Microsoft
11 11 (11.58%) CI/CD
12 10 (10.53%) OO
13 9 (9.47%) Computer Science
13 9 (9.47%) Mentoring
13 9 (9.47%) Kubernetes
13 9 (9.47%) Embedded Software Development
13 9 (9.47%) C

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.11%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.11%) Sketch
2 1 (1.05%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.84%) AWS
1 16 (16.84%) Azure
2 8 (8.42%) Serverless
3 5 (5.26%) GitHub
4 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.11%) Datadog
4 2 (2.11%) Figma
4 2 (2.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) MQTT
2 4 (4.21%) RS-232
3 1 (1.05%) Internet
3 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.58%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.42%) MySQL
2 8 (8.42%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.26%) MS Access
4 4 (4.21%) Big Data
5 2 (2.11%) DocumentDB
5 2 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (12.63%) Git
2 11 (11.58%) JIRA
3 5 (5.26%) InstallShield
4 4 (4.21%) Subversion
5 3 (3.16%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.11%) GitLab
7 1 (1.05%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.05%) JUnit
7 1 (1.05%) Mockito
7 1 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 6 (6.32%) Electronics
1 6 (6.32%) Manufacturing
1 6 (6.32%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.21%) Finance
4 3 (3.16%) Legal
5 1 (1.05%) Banking
5 1 (1.05%) Marketing
5 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (29.47%) .NET
2 8 (8.42%) Node.js
3 6 (6.32%) .NET Core
3 6 (6.32%) REST
4 5 (5.26%) Apache Thrift
5 4 (4.21%) Spring
5 4 (4.21%) Swing
5 4 (4.21%) Web Services
6 3 (3.16%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.16%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.11%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.11%) CSS
7 2 (2.11%) HTML
7 2 (2.11%) Kafka
7 2 (2.11%) WinForms
7 2 (2.11%) WPF
8 1 (1.05%) Ajax
8 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.05%) React
8 1 (1.05%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.32%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.26%) IoT
2 5 (5.26%) Life Science
2 5 (5.26%) Smart Energy
3 4 (4.21%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.16%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.16%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.16%) SCADA
5 2 (2.11%) Blog
5 2 (2.11%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.11%) FMCG
6 1 (1.05%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.00%) Linux
2 17 (17.89%) Windows
3 8 (8.42%) Unix
4 6 (6.32%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (4.21%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (91.58%) Software Engineering
2 19 (20.00%) Agile
2 19 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
3 17 (17.89%) SDLC
4 16 (16.84%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (11.58%) CI/CD
6 11 (11.58%) Multithreading
7 10 (10.53%) OO
8 9 (9.47%) Computer Science
8 9 (9.47%) Embedded Software Development
8 9 (9.47%) Mentoring
9 8 (8.42%) OOP
9 8 (8.42%) Software Testing
10 7 (7.37%) DevOps
11 6 (6.32%) Design Patterns
11 6 (6.32%) Linux Kernel Development
11 6 (6.32%) Microservices
11 6 (6.32%) Risk Register
11 6 (6.32%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.42%) C#
2 17 (17.89%) Java
3 16 (16.84%) C++
4 13 (13.68%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.68%) SQL
5 9 (9.47%) C
6 8 (8.42%) Python
7 6 (6.32%) Perl
7 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
7 6 (6.32%) Ruby
8 5 (5.26%) VB
9 4 (4.21%) Embedded C
9 4 (4.21%) R
10 2 (2.11%) Bash
11 1 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (27.37%) Degree
2 6 (6.32%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.26%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) ISO 9000
2 1 (1.05%) GDPR
2 1 (1.05%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 11 (11.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.26%) Terraform
3 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.32%) Facebook
3 2 (2.11%) Adobe
4 1 (1.05%) Atmel
4 1 (1.05%) SAP