Software Engineering Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Software Engineering
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 9 2
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 443 82 230
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 20.74% 11.70% 19.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.49% 13.58% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 386 73 122
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% -18.52% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,600 £90,000
East of England median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,502 604 935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 70.32% 86.16% 79.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,161 410 466
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £30,422
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,050 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £52,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.56% -18.18% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Cambridgeshire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. 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 +12 363 £75,000 +36.36% 357
Peterborough -2 39 £61,500 +36.67% 25
St Neots -8 3 £50,000 - 3
Ely - 2 - - 2
Software Engineering
East of England

Software Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.23%) CMS
3 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (4.29%) AWS
2 12 (2.71%) Azure
3 10 (2.26%) GCP
4 7 (1.58%) SaaS
5 3 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.68%) GitHub
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.45%) ChatGPT
6 2 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.45%) Google Gemini
6 2 (0.45%) Google Sheets
6 2 (0.45%) Google Workspace
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.23%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.23%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.23%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.23%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.48%) Wireless
2 8 (1.81%) Bluetooth
2 8 (1.81%) Modbus
2 8 (1.81%) Profibus
2 8 (1.81%) RS-232
2 8 (1.81%) RS-485
2 8 (1.81%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.13%) PetaLinux
2 4 (0.90%) Git
3 3 (0.68%) LabVIEW
3 3 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.45%) MLflow
5 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.23%) GitLab
5 1 (0.23%) JIRA
5 1 (0.23%) Poetry
General
1 36 (8.13%) Manufacturing
2 35 (7.90%) Electronics
3 24 (5.42%) Social Skills
4 17 (3.84%) Tech for Good
5 8 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (1.58%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.58%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.35%) Health Technology
8 5 (1.13%) Front Office
9 4 (0.90%) Automotive
10 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.68%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.23%) Aviation
11 1 (0.23%) Legal
11 1 (0.23%) Marketing
11 1 (0.23%) Military
11 1 (0.23%) Police
11 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 338 (76.30%) Software Engineer
2 151 (34.09%) Senior
3 125 (28.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 87 (19.64%) Embedded Engineer
5 76 (17.16%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 56 (12.64%) C++ Software Engineer
7 44 (9.93%) Principal Engineer
8 43 (9.71%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 42 (9.48%) Developer
10 40 (9.03%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 38 (8.58%) Principal Software Engineer
12 36 (8.13%) Python Engineer
13 33 (7.45%) Python Software Engineer
14 31 (7.00%) Python Developer
15 29 (6.55%) Linux Engineer
16 28 (6.32%) Robotics Software Engineer
17 24 (5.42%) Lead
18 19 (4.29%) Embedded Linux Engineer
18 19 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
19 14 (3.16%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.93%) React
2 9 (2.03%) Yocto
3 6 (1.35%) Node.js
3 6 (1.35%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.13%) REST
4 5 (1.13%) TensorFlow
5 4 (0.90%) .NET
5 4 (0.90%) Google JAX
5 4 (0.90%) JAX
5 4 (0.90%) Keras
5 4 (0.90%) STL
5 4 (0.90%) Web Services
6 3 (0.68%) CSS
6 3 (0.68%) HTML
6 3 (0.68%) Middleware
6 3 (0.68%) Qt
6 3 (0.68%) Vue
7 2 (0.45%) DCOM
7 2 (0.45%) Django
7 2 (0.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.54%) Cyber Threat
2 54 (12.19%) Robotics
3 41 (9.26%) Algorithms
4 35 (7.90%) Embedded Systems
5 21 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.03%) Device Driver
7 8 (1.81%) FPGA
8 7 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.58%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.35%) IoT
9 6 (1.35%) RISC-V
10 5 (1.13%) 3D Printing
11 4 (0.90%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.90%) e-Learning
11 4 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.68%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.68%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.68%) Media Streaming
12 3 (0.68%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 68 (15.35%) Linux
2 34 (7.67%) Embedded Linux
3 11 (2.48%) Windows
4 8 (1.81%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.90%) Android
5 4 (0.90%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (19.64%) AI
2 69 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (15.35%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (6.32%) Computer Science
5 24 (5.42%) Agile
6 19 (4.29%) Mentoring
7 18 (4.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (3.84%) Machine Learning
9 15 (3.39%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (2.93%) DevOps
11 12 (2.71%) TDD
12 11 (2.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (2.48%) Mathematics
12 11 (2.48%) Unit Testing
13 10 (2.26%) Multithreading
13 10 (2.26%) Project Delivery
13 10 (2.26%) Prototyping
13 10 (2.26%) Rapid Prototyping
14 9 (2.03%) Data Science
14 9 (2.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 126 (28.44%) C++
2 118 (26.64%) Python
3 40 (9.03%) C
4 37 (8.35%) C#
5 35 (7.90%) Rust
6 28 (6.32%) TypeScript
7 18 (4.06%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.81%) Java
9 6 (1.35%) Embedded C
9 6 (1.35%) Embedded C++
9 6 (1.35%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.13%) SQL
11 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.23%) Clojure
12 1 (0.23%) Haskell
12 1 (0.23%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 46 (10.38%) Degree
2 8 (1.81%) DBS Check
3 7 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.35%) PhD
5 5 (1.13%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.45%) HND
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.03%) QA
System Software
1 25 (5.64%) Firmware
2 14 (3.16%) Embedded Firmware
3 9 (2.03%) Docker
4 6 (1.35%) QEMU
5 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (0.45%) Ansible
2 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (2.93%) RedGate
2 7 (1.58%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.13%) Oracle
4 4 (0.90%) Foundry
5 3 (0.68%) Informatica
6 2 (0.45%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.45%) AVEVA
6 2 (0.45%) Databricks
6 2 (0.45%) Google
6 2 (0.45%) Rockwell
6 2 (0.45%) Siemens
6 2 (0.45%) Wonderware
7 1 (0.23%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.23%) Panasonic
7 1 (0.23%) Sony