Cambridge Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the Cambridge region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Barry Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bordon Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Hastings Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymington Macclesfield Maidenhead Maldon Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Mansfield Margate Marlborough Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paignton Penicuik Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Radlett Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Ringwood Rochdale Rochford Rotherham Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Tetbury Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Totnes Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	6
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	551	613
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.291 %	0.251 %
As % of the category below	18.88 %	22.41 %
Salaries quoted	476	504
Average minimum salary	£32,708	£32,718
Average salary	£36,866	£37,064
% change on same period last year	-0.53 %
Average maximum salary	£41,023	£41,411
UK excluding London average salary	£36,034	£34,924
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Job Titles Cambridge
Matching permanent IT job ads	2918	2735
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.540 %	1.120 %
Salaries quoted	2537	2274
Average minimum salary	£32,515	£32,217
Average salary	£35,924	£35,561
% change on same period last year	+1.02 %
Average maximum salary	£39,332	£38,904
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Software Engineer Cambridgeshire

Software Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Software Engineer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Cambridge region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineer across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Software Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Software Engineer in their job title.

1 655 (60.99 %) C++ 2 450 (41.90 %) C 3 423 (39.39 %) Degree 4 316 (29.42 %) Windows 5 295 (27.47 %) C# 6 248 (23.09 %) .NET 7 236 (21.97 %) Computer Science 8 230 (21.42 %) Linux 9 163 (15.18 %) UNIX 10 162 (15.08 %) Java 11 155 (14.43 %) Python 12 139 (12.94 %) Electronics 13 116 (10.80 %) OO 13 116 (10.80 %) Software Engineering 14 113 (10.52 %) Perl

15 107 (9.963 %) Mathematics 16 104 (9.683 %) SQL 17 99 (9.218 %) Embedded C 18 88 (8.194 %) Pensions 19 87 (8.101 %) Wireless 20 84 (7.821 %) PHP 21 82 (7.635 %) Embedded C++ 22 81 (7.542 %) SQL Server 23 80 (7.449 %) Microsoft 24 76 (7.076 %) Visual Studio 25 73 (6.797 %) Telecoms 26 66 (6.145 %) OOD 27 65 (6.052 %) ASP.NET 27 65 (6.052 %) XML 28 64 (5.959 %) TCP/IP

Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Software Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 248 (23.09 %) .NET 2 65 (6.052 %) ASP.NET 2 65 (6.052 %) XML 3 61 (5.680 %) STL 4 55 (5.121 %) MFC 5 45 (4.190 %) J2EE 6 44 (4.097 %) WebServices 7 32 (2.980 %) SOAP 8 30 (2.793 %) WinForms 9 20 (1.862 %) HTML 9 20 (1.862 %) WSDL 10 18 (1.676 %) AJAX 11 17 (1.583 %) JSP 12 16 (1.490 %) OpenGL 12 16 (1.490 %) .NET Framework 13 15 (1.397 %) J2ME 14 13 (1.210 %) Middleware 14 13 (1.210 %) Spring 14 13 (1.210 %) Hibernate 15 11 (1.024 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 5 (0.466 %) JBoss 2 3 (0.279 %) Tomcat 3 2 (0.186 %) Apache 3 2 (0.186 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (0.093 %) WebLogic 4 1 (0.093 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 47 (4.376 %) MS Excel 2 41 (3.818 %) MATLAB 3 32 (2.980 %) 3ds Max 4 28 (2.607 %) Maya 5 14 (1.304 %) MS Visio 6 8 (0.745 %) Simulink 7 6 (0.559 %) MS Office 8 5 (0.466 %) Pro/ENGINEER 9 2 (0.186 %) S-PLUS	Communications & Networking 1 87 (8.101 %) Wireless 2 64 (5.959 %) TCP/IP 3 43 (4.004 %) Bluetooth 4 36 (3.352 %) Internet 5 30 (2.793 %) 3G 6 26 (2.421 %) GSM 7 25 (2.328 %) Ethernet 7 25 (2.328 %) HTTP 8 20 (1.862 %) 2G 9 19 (1.769 %) UMTS 10 18 (1.676 %) VoIP 11 15 (1.397 %) 3GPP 12 14 (1.304 %) WCDMA 13 12 (1.117 %) ATM 14 11 (1.024 %) Broadband 14 11 (1.024 %) DVB 14 11 (1.024 %) TETRA 15 10 (0.931 %) LAN 16 9 (0.838 %) SSL 17 8 (0.745 %) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence 1 81 (7.542 %) SQL Server 2 13 (1.210 %) SQL Server 2005 3 12 (1.117 %) GIS 3 12 (1.117 %) MS Access 3 12 (1.117 %) SQL Server 7 4 10 (0.931 %) MySQL 5 8 (0.745 %) Data Mining 6 6 (0.559 %) SQL Server 2000 7 4 (0.372 %) Text Mining 8 3 (0.279 %) RDBMS 9 2 (0.186 %) Crystal Reports 9 2 (0.186 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 1 (0.093 %) Oracle 9i 10 1 (0.093 %) Informix	Development Applications 1 76 (7.076 %) Visual Studio 2 28 (2.607 %) MSI 3 12 (1.117 %) WinRunner 3 12 (1.117 %) TestDirector 4 10 (0.931 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 9 (0.838 %) NUnit 6 8 (0.745 %) InstallShield 7 7 (0.652 %) Subversion 8 6 (0.559 %) Eclipse 9 5 (0.466 %) Rational Robot 10 3 (0.279 %) Flash 10 3 (0.279 %) ClearCase 11 2 (0.186 %) Rational Rose 11 2 (0.186 %) JUnit 12 1 (0.093 %) LabVIEW
General 1 139 (12.94 %) Electronics 2 88 (8.194 %) Pensions 3 73 (6.797 %) Telecoms 4 64 (5.959 %) Health 5 46 (4.283 %) 3D Graphics 6 37 (3.445 %) Education 7 34 (3.166 %) Insurance 8 30 (2.793 %) Finance 9 18 (1.676 %) Games 10 14 (1.304 %) Automotive 11 13 (1.210 %) Multimedia 12 11 (1.024 %) Animation 13 10 (0.931 %) Electric 14 8 (0.745 %) Retail 15 7 (0.652 %) Manufacturing 16 6 (0.559 %) Marketing 17 4 (0.372 %) Pharmaceutical 18 3 (0.279 %) Aerospace 19 2 (0.186 %) Advertising 19 2 (0.186 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 236 (21.97 %) Computer Science 2 107 (9.963 %) Mathematics 3 42 (3.911 %) Physics 4 41 (3.818 %) DTV 5 34 (3.166 %) STB 6 20 (1.862 %) Client/Server 7 19 (1.769 %) VHDL 7 19 (1.769 %) Verilog 8 12 (1.117 %) IPTV 8 12 (1.117 %) Multithreading 9 11 (1.024 %) Firmware 10 10 (0.931 %) Device Driver 10 10 (0.931 %) MPEG 11 9 (0.838 %) Cryptography 12 8 (0.745 %) Handset 13 6 (0.559 %) Blackberry 13 6 (0.559 %) Neural Network 13 6 (0.559 %) Applied Mathematics 14 5 (0.466 %) Life Science 14 5 (0.466 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems 1 316 (29.42 %) Windows 2 230 (21.42 %) Linux 3 163 (15.18 %) UNIX 4 40 (3.724 %) Embedded Linux 5 23 (2.142 %) Windows XP 6 20 (1.862 %) Symbian OS 7 18 (1.676 %) Solaris 8 17 (1.583 %) Windows NT 9 16 (1.490 %) Windows CE 10 12 (1.117 %) VxWorks 11 10 (0.931 %) Windows Mobile 12 5 (0.466 %) Windows Server 2003 12 5 (0.466 %) HPUX 13 4 (0.372 %) Windows 2000 14 2 (0.186 %) pSOS 15 1 (0.093 %) LynxOS 15 1 (0.093 %) ThreadX 15 1 (0.093 %) Nucleus RTOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 116 (10.80 %) OO 1 116 (10.80 %) Software Engineering 2 66 (6.145 %) OOD 3 54 (5.028 %) UML 4 33 (3.073 %) Agile Software Development 5 30 (2.793 %) Software Testing 6 29 (2.700 %) CAD 7 27 (2.514 %) Automated Testing 8 23 (2.142 %) Data Security 9 21 (1.955 %) Unit Testing 10 19 (1.769 %) Data Management 11 17 (1.583 %) PLM 12 16 (1.490 %) OOP 12 16 (1.490 %) Numerical Analysis 13 15 (1.397 %) Scrum 13 15 (1.397 %) TDD 14 13 (1.210 %) Validation 15 10 (0.931 %) Project Management 15 10 (0.931 %) System Testing 16 9 (0.838 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 655 (60.99 %) C++ 2 450 (41.90 %) C 3 295 (27.47 %) C# 4 162 (15.08 %) Java 5 155 (14.43 %) Python 6 113 (10.52 %) Perl 7 104 (9.683 %) SQL 8 99 (9.218 %) Embedded C 9 84 (7.821 %) PHP 10 82 (7.635 %) Embedded C++ 11 55 (5.121 %) VC++ 12 31 (2.886 %) JavaScript 13 26 (2.421 %) VB 14 20 (1.862 %) Assembly Language 15 18 (1.676 %) VB6 16 9 (0.838 %) Ruby 16 9 (0.838 %) Shell Script 17 8 (0.745 %) Delphi 17 8 (0.745 %) DHTML 18 7 (0.652 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 423 (39.39 %) Degree 2 56 (5.214 %) PhD 3 17 (1.583 %) ISEB 4 2 (0.186 %) HND 5 1 (0.093 %) Postgraduate 5 1 (0.093 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 39 (3.631 %) QA 2 3 (0.279 %) ISO9001 3 2 (0.186 %) JTAG	System Software 1 5 (0.466 %) Xen 1 5 (0.466 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 2 (0.186 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 80 (7.449 %) Microsoft 2 41 (3.818 %) Symbian 3 26 (2.421 %) Oracle 4 19 (1.769 %) Perforce 5 14 (1.304 %) Macrovision 6 6 (0.559 %) Intel 7 5 (0.466 %) VMware 7 5 (0.466 %) Autodesk 7 5 (0.466 %) Sony 8 4 (0.372 %) Ericsson 8 4 (0.372 %) Motorola 8 4 (0.372 %) Nokia 9 2 (0.186 %) IBM 9 2 (0.186 %) Sun 9 2 (0.186 %) HP 9 2 (0.186 %) Wall Street Systems 10 1 (0.093 %) ION Trading 10 1 (0.093 %) NEC 10 1 (0.093 %) Red Hat 10 1 (0.093 %) Mapinfo