Senior Developer Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Senior Developer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Senior Developer salary in Cambridgeshire is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 73 63
Rank change year-on-year +21 -10 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 9 28 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.80% 1.80% 4.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 1.92% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 6 27 33
10th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £51,750 £58,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -21.88% +18.52%
75th Percentile £79,688 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £84,375 £77,500 £86,000
East of England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +26.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 466 1,462 1,276
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 93.78% 86.74%
Number of salaries quoted 311 1,129 599
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,300
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,350 £86,250
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Cambridgeshire

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in Cambridgeshire.

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Cambridgeshire

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Cambridgeshire

Senior Developer
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 7 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +20 5 £67,500 +10.20% 11
Huntingdon +7 2 - -
Senior Developer
East of England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Senior Developer 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 5 (55.56%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 3 (33.33%) Android
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
4 2 (22.22%) Entity Framework
4 2 (22.22%) RESTful
4 2 (22.22%) Android SDK
4 2 (22.22%) Android Development
4 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (22.22%) JNI
4 2 (22.22%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
4 2 (22.22%) C++
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) MVC
4 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
4 2 (22.22%) SOLID
4 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Terraform
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Health

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) LTE
1 1 (11.11%) TETRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Health
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) Android SDK
1 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
1 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (22.22%) Entity Framework
1 2 (22.22%) JNI
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Android Development
2 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
2 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
2 2 (22.22%) MVC
2 2 (22.22%) SOLID
3 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) OOP
3 1 (11.11%) Open Source Development
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Power Management
3 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 5 (55.56%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) C++
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google