Software Engineering Jobs in Chester

Software Engineering
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 10 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 -11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2 26 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 5.88% 12.09% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 16.25% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 0 24 2
10th Percentile - £55,750 -
25th Percentile - - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.18%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% -22.58% +37.78%

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 32 160 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 94.12% 74.42% 99.07%
Number of salaries quoted 20 136 93
10th Percentile £30,875 £26,375 £22,600
25th Percentile £33,000 £32,188 £25,420
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,899
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £75,000
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +5.26%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Chester

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Chester

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Chester

Software Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Redux
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Solace