Senior Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Senior
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Senior salary in Cambridgeshire is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 58 259 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 12.08% 15.91% 17.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.69% 16.97% 20.14%
Number of salaries quoted 24 208 110
10th Percentile £52,650 £48,709 £51,925
25th Percentile £56,375 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -18.64% +22.92%
75th Percentile £79,063 £75,750 £80,938
90th Percentile £112,625 £85,000 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £58,000 £59,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.52% -8.46% +18.18%

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 457 1,526 1,152
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.21% 93.73% 85.84%
Number of salaries quoted 294 1,177 555
10th Percentile £26,700 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,825 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,901 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,001 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cambridgeshire

Senior
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Senior in Cambridgeshire

Senior
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Cambridgeshire

Senior
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 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 29 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 -12 25 £70,000 +16.67% 330
Peterborough -7 9 £67,500 +45.95% 253
Huntingdon +12 8 £72,500 +16.00% 1
Senior
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 32 (55.17%) Agile
2 20 (34.48%) Mentoring
3 15 (25.86%) Driving Licence
3 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
3 15 (25.86%) Software Engineering
3 15 (25.86%) Chartered Engineer
4 13 (22.41%) Azure
5 11 (18.97%) Manufacturing
6 10 (17.24%) C
6 10 (17.24%) C++
7 9 (15.52%) Electronics
7 9 (15.52%) Degree
7 9 (15.52%) QA
8 8 (13.79%) AWS
8 8 (13.79%) RS-485
8 8 (13.79%) TypeScript
9 7 (12.07%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (12.07%) DevOps
9 7 (12.07%) Kanban
9 7 (12.07%) Law
9 7 (12.07%) Wireless
9 7 (12.07%) Scrum
9 7 (12.07%) Bluetooth
9 7 (12.07%) Firmware
10 6 (10.34%) TDD
10 6 (10.34%) ZigBee
10 6 (10.34%) Unit Testing
10 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
10 6 (10.34%) RS-232

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.41%) Azure
2 8 (13.79%) AWS
3 3 (5.17%) Figma
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.45%) Serverless
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.72%) GCP
5 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.79%) RS-485
2 7 (12.07%) Bluetooth
2 7 (12.07%) Wireless
3 6 (10.34%) Modbus
3 6 (10.34%) Profibus
3 6 (10.34%) RS-232
3 6 (10.34%) ZigBee
4 3 (5.17%) Broadband
5 1 (1.72%) Firewall
5 1 (1.72%) Network Security
5 1 (1.72%) VPN
5 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
1 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) JIRA
1 3 (5.17%) Selenium
2 2 (3.45%) Moq
2 2 (3.45%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.72%) GDB
3 1 (1.72%) Git
3 1 (1.72%) GitLab
3 1 (1.72%) KGDB
General
1 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.97%) Manufacturing
3 9 (15.52%) Electronics
4 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.07%) Law
5 6 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (5.17%) Banking
7 3 (5.17%) Legal
8 2 (3.45%) Finance
9 1 (1.72%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.72%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.72%) Games
9 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.72%) Marketing
9 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) .NET
2 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET
2 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (3.45%) Entity Framework
2 2 (3.45%) GraphQL
2 2 (3.45%) OAuth
2 2 (3.45%) OAuth2
2 2 (3.45%) React
2 2 (3.45%) REST
2 2 (3.45%) Swagger
3 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.72%) FHIR
3 1 (1.72%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.72%) OpenEmbedded
3 1 (1.72%) RESTful
3 1 (1.72%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (1.72%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (1.72%) WebGL
3 1 (1.72%) WebRTC
3 1 (1.72%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Driving Licence
2 7 (12.07%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (6.90%) PKI
3 4 (6.90%) Private Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Biopharmaceutical
4 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.17%) FPGA
5 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.45%) Life Science
5 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.45%) Verilog
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.72%) Animation
6 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.72%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.72%) FMCG
6 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) FreeRTOS
2 4 (6.90%) Linux
3 2 (3.45%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (3.45%) Windows
4 1 (1.72%) Android
4 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) Agile
2 20 (34.48%) Mentoring
3 15 (25.86%) Software Engineering
4 7 (12.07%) DevOps
4 7 (12.07%) Kanban
4 7 (12.07%) Scrum
5 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
5 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (10.34%) TDD
5 6 (10.34%) Unit Testing
6 5 (8.62%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (6.90%) Process Improvement
7 4 (6.90%) Prototyping
7 4 (6.90%) Time Management
7 4 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (5.17%) Data Protection
8 3 (5.17%) Manual Testing
8 3 (5.17%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.24%) C
1 10 (17.24%) C++
2 8 (13.79%) TypeScript
3 5 (8.62%) C#
3 5 (8.62%) Python
4 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.45%) Rust
6 1 (1.72%) HLSL
6 1 (1.72%) Java
6 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Chartered Engineer
2 9 (15.52%) Degree
3 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.62%) DV Cleared
5 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.17%) ISTQB
7 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
7 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) GMP
2 3 (5.17%) GxP
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) CDISC
3 1 (1.72%) JTAG
3 1 (1.72%) PMO
3 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Firmware
2 6 (10.34%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (8.62%) Docker
4 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.45%) EMC
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle
3 1 (1.72%) Salesforce