Software Engineer Jobs in Chester

Software Engineer
Cheshire > Chester

The median Software Engineer salary in Chester is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 35 22
Rank change year-on-year +21 -13 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 20 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 9.30% 0.93% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.80% 1.20% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 18 2 1
10th Percentile £56,750 - -
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +33.33%
75th Percentile - £65,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +37.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 204 166 115
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 77.57% 85.19%
Number of salaries quoted 174 92 67
10th Percentile £26,250 £22,325 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,000 £26,365 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,924 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,000
Cheshire median annual salary £46,074 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +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 5 May 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 5 May 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 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) C#
2 9 (45.00%) .NET
3 5 (25.00%) Microservices
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Terraform
4 4 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (15.00%) Spring
5 3 (15.00%) SCADA
5 3 (15.00%) TDD
5 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (15.00%) Java
5 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (10.00%) C
6 2 (10.00%) AWS
6 2 (10.00%) Bash
6 2 (10.00%) FMCG
6 2 (10.00%) MQTT
6 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (10.00%) Kafka
6 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef

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 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Datadog
2 2 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) DocumentDB
1 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) Spring
2 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (15.00%) SCADA
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) FMCG
4 1 (5.00%) Smart Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (25.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) TDD
4 2 (10.00%) API Development
4 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (10.00%) Observability
4 2 (10.00%) Software Delivery
5 1 (5.00%) BDD
5 1 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (5.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (5.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) C#
2 3 (15.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) C
3 2 (10.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft