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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +27
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 19 14 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 13.57% 9.72% 15.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.57% 14.43% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 15 10 5
10th Percentile £53,000 £50,000 -
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 £66,250 - £82,548
90th Percentile £75,600 £60,450 -
Cheshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £75,669
% change year-on-year +14.29% -30.62% +34.03%

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 122 97 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 87.14% 67.36% 98.17%
Number of salaries quoted 65 69 63
10th Percentile £30,300 £34,950 £32,332
25th Percentile £45,500 £37,500 £38,943
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +19.43%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,484 £69,966
90th Percentile £76,900 - £82,548
Cheshire median annual salary £48,720 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.57% -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 20 November 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) GitHub
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.26%) Neo4j
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.26%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (26.32%) Banking
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Billing
2 3 (15.79%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Senior
2 9 (47.37%) Control Systems Engineer
2 9 (47.37%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 9 (47.37%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Payments Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Data Scientist
6 1 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Jest
1 3 (15.79%) React
2 2 (10.53%) CSS
2 2 (10.53%) CSS3
2 2 (10.53%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) HTML5
2 2 (10.53%) Playwright
2 2 (10.53%) Redux
3 1 (5.26%) Keras
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) NumPy
3 1 (5.26%) OpenCV
3 1 (5.26%) Pandas
3 1 (5.26%) Regular Expression
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
3 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.26%) Spring
3 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.26%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) SCADA
2 3 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (15.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (10.53%) Online Banking
4 1 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.26%) Blog
4 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Agile
2 4 (21.05%) AI
2 4 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
3 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
3 3 (15.79%) Fintech
3 3 (15.79%) GAP Analysis
3 3 (15.79%) Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (15.79%) Validation
4 2 (10.53%) Scrum
4 2 (10.53%) TDD
5 1 (5.26%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (5.26%) Ontologies
5 1 (5.26%) Open Source
5 1 (5.26%) Statistics
5 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.79%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) C++
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) C
4 1 (5.26%) Julia
4 1 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) R
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO 20022
1 3 (15.79%) SEPA
1 3 (15.79%) TARGET2
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Grafana
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Google