Junior Jobs in Cambridge

Junior
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Junior salary in Cambridge is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 62 72
Rank change year-on-year +24 +10 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 6 20 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.32% 1.99% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.49% 2.05% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 13
10th Percentile £34,250 £24,120 £33,500
25th Percentile £36,875 - £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £24,240 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +75.33% -42.96% +14.86%
75th Percentile £45,625 £32,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £46,750 £33,000 -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £43,750 £24,240 £35,750
% change year-on-year +80.49% -32.20% +3.62%

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 241 977 784
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 97.12% 84.57%
Number of salaries quoted 151 754 384
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,650
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.91%
75th Percentile £65,625 £73,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £90,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings that featured Junior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Junior in Cambridge

Junior
Salary Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Junior in Cambridge.

Salary trend for Junior in Cambridge

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Node.js
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (50.00%) Open Source
3 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (50.00%) Physics
3 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Aviation
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Laravel
5 1 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (16.67%) GitLab
5 1 (16.67%) Django
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) Web Development

Junior 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (50.00%) Open Source
2 3 (50.00%) Physics
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) PLM
4 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker