Software Engineering Job Trends in Chester

Software Engineering
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 4 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +21
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 21 18 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 15.00% 11.92% 13.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.36% 17.65% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 5
10th Percentile £52,250 £50,500 -
25th Percentile - £55,000 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year - -20.71% +34.03%
75th Percentile £72,188 - £82,548
90th Percentile £75,700 - -
Cheshire median annual salary £65,000 £54,500 £75,669
% change year-on-year +19.27% -27.98% +38.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 121 102 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 86.43% 67.55% 97.56%
Number of salaries quoted 58 71 70
10th Percentile £30,450 £35,000 £32,083
25th Percentile £46,868 £37,500 £39,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68,438 £68,484 £67,393
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,548
Cheshire median annual salary £48,979 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.11% -5.00% +11.11%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Chester

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Chester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Chester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Chester over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Chester

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Neo4j
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 3 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 3 (14.29%) GitLab
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
1 3 (14.29%) Maven
1 3 (14.29%) Selenium
1 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
1 3 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (38.10%) Banking
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Billing
2 3 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 3 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.52%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Senior
2 7 (33.33%) Control Systems Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Payments Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Delivery Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) React
2 5 (23.81%) CSS
2 5 (23.81%) HTML
2 5 (23.81%) Jest
2 5 (23.81%) Redux
3 4 (19.05%) CSS3
3 4 (19.05%) HTML5
3 4 (19.05%) Spring
3 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
4 3 (14.29%) JPA
4 3 (14.29%) Kafka
4 3 (14.29%) RESTful
5 2 (9.52%) Playwright
5 2 (9.52%) REST
5 2 (9.52%) Sass
6 1 (4.76%) Hugging Face
6 1 (4.76%) NLTK
6 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
6 1 (4.76%) Seaborn
6 1 (4.76%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) SCADA
2 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
3 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (9.52%) Online Banking
5 1 (4.76%) AI Agents
5 1 (4.76%) Blog
5 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 5 (23.81%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) AI
4 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (19.05%) SDLC
4 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Fintech
5 3 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 3 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 3 (14.29%) Microservices
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (28.57%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.52%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) C
5 1 (4.76%) Julia
5 1 (4.76%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) ISO 20022
2 3 (14.29%) SEPA
2 3 (14.29%) TARGET2
3 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Solace
2 1 (4.76%) Google