Associate Engineer Job Trends in Cambridge

Associate Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Associate Engineer salary in Cambridge is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Associate Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £47,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £45,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 467 465 354
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 94.51% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 327 261 233
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,175
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +1.38%

Associate Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Associate Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Associate Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Associate Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for Associate Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Salary distribution trend for Associate Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge

Associate Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, Associate Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cambridge region featuring Associate Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection

Associate Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform