Senior Software Engineer Job Trends in Knutsford

Senior Software Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Knutsford is £74,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Knutsford 5.56% - 4.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.25% - 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64,750 - £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 - £82,500
75th Percentile £84,250 - £91,250
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median annual salary £72,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +31.36% -8.33% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Knutsford. 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 Knutsford with a recognized job title 48 65 25
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.89% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 21 19 16
10th Percentile £32,750 £25,500 £72,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £42,000 £80,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -39.73% +305.56%
75th Percentile £87,500 £58,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £61,500 -
Cheshire median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Knutsford

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Knutsford

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in Knutsford.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in Knutsford

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 26 September 2025, Senior 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 Knutsford region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth2
2 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) OpenID
2 2 (66.67%) ForgeRock
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Defensive Programming
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth2
1 2 (66.67%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) FIDO
2 1 (33.33%) JDBC
2 1 (33.33%) JWT
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Rust
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ForgeRock
2 1 (33.33%) Ping Identity