Software Engineering Jobs in Cheshire

Software Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 19 49
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 -25
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 90 134 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 11.52% 8.65% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.62% 10.90% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12 123 22
10th Percentile £41,375 £37,250 £48,000
25th Percentile £43,438 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -22.58% +40.91%
75th Percentile £83,875 £67,500 £90,938
90th Percentile £84,250 £85,000 £96,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.88% +10.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 661 1,229 860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.64% 79.34% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 238 927 454
10th Percentile £20,280 £25,000 £25,420
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,869 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 16 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 +4 7 £74,500 -6.88% 8
Macclesfield +7 4 - - 4
Chester +3 4 £67,500 +12.50% 17
Runcorn +1 4 - -
Crewe -1 4 £55,000 -16.98%
Wilmslow - 4 £80,000 - 2
Warrington +17 3 - - 10
Ellesmere Port -5 3 - - 1
Widnes - 3 - -
Northwich - 3 - -
Alderley Edge +7 2 £47,500 +5.56% 2
Sandbach - 2 - -
Congleton - 2 - - 1
Middlewich - 2 - -
Winsford +5 1 - - 1
Neston - 1 £50,000 -
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
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 21 (23.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) GNU Octave
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 81 (90.00%) AWS
2 77 (85.56%) Azure
3 41 (45.56%) GCP
4 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (61.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 56 (62.22%) GitLab
2 55 (61.11%) Bitbucket
2 55 (61.11%) Cucumber
2 55 (61.11%) JIRA
2 55 (61.11%) Maven
2 55 (61.11%) Selenium
2 55 (61.11%) SonarQube
2 55 (61.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (3.33%) Git
4 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 58 (64.44%) Finance
3 55 (61.11%) Banking
4 35 (38.89%) Retail
5 34 (37.78%) Corporate Banking
5 34 (37.78%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (95.56%) Software Engineer
2 25 (27.78%) Senior
3 24 (26.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (3.33%) Developer
5 2 (2.22%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (2.22%) PHP Developer
6 1 (1.11%) C# Developer
6 1 (1.11%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (1.11%) Delivery Project Manager
6 1 (1.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (1.11%) Junior
6 1 (1.11%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (1.11%) Project Manager
6 1 (1.11%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (1.11%) Senior Developer
6 1 (1.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 1 (1.11%) Software Manager
6 1 (1.11%) Software Project Manager
6 1 (1.11%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (1.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (64.44%) React
2 56 (62.22%) CSS
2 56 (62.22%) HTML
2 56 (62.22%) Spring
2 56 (62.22%) Spring Boot
3 55 (61.11%) JPA
3 55 (61.11%) Kafka
3 55 (61.11%) Redux
4 37 (41.11%) RESTful
5 36 (40.00%) REST
6 35 (38.89%) CSS3
6 35 (38.89%) HTML5
7 34 (37.78%) Jest
7 34 (37.78%) Sass
8 24 (26.67%) .NET
9 21 (23.33%) Hibernate
10 20 (22.22%) Node.js
11 3 (3.33%) Laravel
12 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
12 2 (2.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 55 (61.11%) Enterprise Software
1 55 (61.11%) Product Ownership
2 20 (22.22%) Cyberattack
2 20 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.22%) Blog
3 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.11%) PKI
4 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.11%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (88.89%) Agile
2 79 (87.78%) Microservices
3 58 (64.44%) CI/CD
4 57 (63.33%) DevOps
4 57 (63.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 56 (62.22%) Containerisation
5 56 (62.22%) Performance Optimisation
5 56 (62.22%) SDLC
5 56 (62.22%) Test Automation
6 55 (61.11%) Front End Development
6 55 (61.11%) User Experience
7 54 (60.00%) Mentoring
8 35 (38.89%) Strategic Thinking
9 34 (37.78%) Migration
9 34 (37.78%) Responsive Web Design
10 23 (25.56%) TDD
11 22 (24.44%) Clean Code
11 22 (24.44%) Scrum
12 21 (23.33%) Cloud Security
12 21 (23.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 79 (87.78%) Java
1 79 (87.78%) JavaScript
2 58 (64.44%) SQL
3 35 (38.89%) TypeScript
4 22 (24.44%) C++
5 21 (23.33%) Go
5 21 (23.33%) Rust
6 20 (22.22%) Python
7 5 (5.56%) C#
8 3 (3.33%) PHP
9 1 (1.11%) C
9 1 (1.11%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.11%) XAML
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) DV Cleared
1 21 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 20 (22.22%) AWS Certified Developer
2 20 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.22%) Degree
4 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (61.11%) QA
2 34 (37.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.11%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 57 (63.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (63.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.11%) Ansible
3 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (61.11%) Solace
2 2 (2.22%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.11%) Ping Identity