Software Engineer Jobs in Knutsford

Software Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Software Engineer salary in Knutsford is £74,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 22 12
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 5 8 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Knutsford 12.20% 9.09% 11.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.13% 9.09% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 8
10th Percentile £43,950 £55,000 £66,250
25th Percentile £51,750 £69,063 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £97,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.59% +25.81% -
75th Percentile £84,250 £108,750 £91,563
90th Percentile - £110,625 £93,625
Cheshire median annual salary £62,250 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% -20.00% +25.00%

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 31 88 69
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 75.61% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 18 72 62
10th Percentile £20,280 £25,775 £50,000
25th Percentile £21,086 £41,250 £66,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £23,504 £67,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -65.18% -20.59% +112.50%
75th Percentile £66,563 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £84,475 £108,750 £106,750
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.48% -3.16% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Knutsford

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Knutsford.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Knutsford

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Knutsford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Knutsford over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Knutsford

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Docker
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) GitLab
3 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (40.00%) Redux
4 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) ForgeRock
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (40.00%) React
4 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (40.00%) Solace
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Maven
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) JPA
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (40.00%) OpenID
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) Redux
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) CSS3
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) JDBC
2 1 (20.00%) SAML
2 1 (20.00%) Sass
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Blog
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Defensive Programming
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Rust
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ForgeRock
1 2 (40.00%) Solace
2 1 (20.00%) Ping Identity