Developer/Software Engineer Jobs in Cambridge

Software Engineer/Developer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in Cambridge is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 3 0 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 0.30% - 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 26
10th Percentile £51,500 - £32,500
25th Percentile £51,875 - £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £78,750
90th Percentile - - £87,050
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 - £37,500
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 959 867 1,501
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.06% 85.59% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 739 408 589
10th Percentile £30,925 £30,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £90,000 £85,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer/Software Engineer in Cambridge

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer in Cambridge.

Salary trend for Developer/Software Engineer in Cambridge

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Developer/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 Cambridge region featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) iOS SDK
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) QNX
2 2 (66.67%) Automotive
2 2 (66.67%) Objective-C
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
2 2 (66.67%) IoT
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Rust
2 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) AWS

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
General
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (66.67%) IoT
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
1 2 (66.67%) Objective-C
1 2 (66.67%) Rust
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) QNX