Senior Software Engineer Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Senior Software Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Cambridgeshire is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 October 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 27 59
Rank change year-on-year -50 +32 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 2 70 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.27% 6.39% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 6.87% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2 47 4
10th Percentile £67,875 £53,000 -
25th Percentile £68,438 £61,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £67,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -25.00% +28.57%
75th Percentile £80,938 £73,750 £98,125
90th Percentile £82,625 £75,000 £99,250
East of England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% -12.90% +10.71%

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 674 1,019 564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 93.06% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 447 550 361
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,103 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,000 £85,000 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +2.14%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Senior Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Senior Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 October 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 -28 2 £73,750 +5.36% 20
Senior Software Engineer
East of England

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, Senior Software 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Laravel
2 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Moq
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Moq
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) Laravel
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker