Software Engineer Jobs in Chester

Software Engineer
Cheshire > Chester

The median Software Engineer salary in Chester is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 June 2024.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 35 27
Rank change year-on-year +27 -8 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 32 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 11.31% 0.92% 2.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.60% 1.18% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 27 2 0
10th Percentile £55,000 - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -17.24% +26.09% +27.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Chester. 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 Chester with a recognized job title 254 169 147
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.75% 77.88% 86.47%
Number of salaries quoted 220 86 73
10th Percentile £24,900 £23,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £27,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,400 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% -8.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,975 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,813
Cheshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Chester

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Chester

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Chester

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Chester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Chester over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Chester

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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 Chester region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (43.75%) C#
3 13 (40.63%) .NET
3 13 (40.63%) Azure
4 8 (25.00%) Manufacturing
5 5 (15.63%) DevOps
5 5 (15.63%) Microservices
5 5 (15.63%) Agile
5 5 (15.63%) Python
6 4 (12.50%) Java
6 4 (12.50%) C
6 4 (12.50%) Terraform
6 4 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
7 3 (9.38%) Clean Code
7 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
7 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
7 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
7 3 (9.38%) AWS
7 3 (9.38%) TDD
7 3 (9.38%) SCADA
7 3 (9.38%) Spring
7 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
8 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
8 2 (6.25%) Embedded C
8 2 (6.25%) Embedded C++
8 2 (6.25%) C++
8 2 (6.25%) FMCG
8 2 (6.25%) Subversion

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 13 (40.63%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Datadog
3 2 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) MQTT
1 2 (6.25%) RS-232
1 2 (6.25%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) DocumentDB
1 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
1 2 (6.25%) GitLab
1 2 (6.25%) Subversion
2 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 8 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (40.63%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) Spring
2 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.25%) AWS CDK
3 2 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) CSS
4 1 (3.13%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) React
4 1 (3.13%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (9.38%) SCADA
3 2 (6.25%) ARM Cortex
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) FMCG
4 1 (3.13%) EPoS
4 1 (3.13%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (15.63%) Agile
2 5 (15.63%) DevOps
2 5 (15.63%) Microservices
3 3 (9.38%) Clean Code
3 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
3 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (9.38%) TDD
4 2 (6.25%) API Development
4 2 (6.25%) CI/CD
4 2 (6.25%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (6.25%) Observability
4 2 (6.25%) Software Delivery
5 1 (3.13%) BDD
5 1 (3.13%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (3.13%) Commercial Awareness
5 1 (3.13%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.13%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (3.13%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) C#
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) C
3 4 (12.50%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) Bash
5 2 (6.25%) C++
5 2 (6.25%) Embedded C
5 2 (6.25%) Embedded C++
5 2 (6.25%) R
6 1 (3.13%) PHP
6 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Google