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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 3 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 -6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 8 36 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 12.12% 13.64% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.55% 19.46% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 5 31 3
10th Percentile £51,750 £55,000 -
25th Percentile - - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.28%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £73,774
90th Percentile £66,750 - £79,038
Cheshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -22.58% +37.28%

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 55 185 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 83.33% 70.08% 98.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26 159 89
10th Percentile £31,375 £26,500 £24,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £55,000 £43,800
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +25.57% -11.37%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £60,899
90th Percentile £65,625 £72,032 £72,750
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £48,013 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.90% -3.97% +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
Salary Histogram in Chester

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

Salary histogram 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Neo4j
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) Maven
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
1 3 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Control Systems Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Software Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) JPA
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) Redux
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) CSS3
2 2 (25.00%) HTML5
2 2 (25.00%) Jest
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) Sass
3 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
3 1 (12.50%) NLTK
3 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
3 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
3 1 (12.50%) Seaborn
3 1 (12.50%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
1 3 (37.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
2 1 (12.50%) Blog
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Julia
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Solace