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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 2 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 78 245 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 9.68% 22.01% 12.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.84% 26.89% 13.46%
Number of salaries quoted 67 139 44
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -5.59% +19.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £87,813
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -

All Process and 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 659 911 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 81.76% 81.85% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 446 446 334
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,480 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,250 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +10.09% +3.81%
75th Percentile £64,375 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +1.38%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 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 -10 55 £55,000 -21.43% 75
Peterborough +10 17 £40,000 -23.81% 1
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 20 (25.64%) Kinematics
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.36%) Azure
2 11 (14.10%) AWS
3 4 (5.13%) SaaS
4 2 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (2.56%) GitHub
5 1 (1.28%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.28%) Figma
5 1 (1.28%) GCP
5 1 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.28%) PaaS
5 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) GSM
1 1 (1.28%) Internet
1 1 (1.28%) LTE
1 1 (1.28%) RS-232
1 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.28%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.85%) Redis
3 2 (2.56%) MySQL
4 1 (1.28%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Git
2 3 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (1.28%) Selenium
4 1 (1.28%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (28.21%) Electronics
2 5 (6.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Finance
4 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.28%) Automotive
5 1 (1.28%) Digital Health
5 1 (1.28%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Law
5 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.28%) Marketing
5 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.28%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 24 (30.77%) Developer
2 22 (28.21%) Lead
2 22 (28.21%) Software Engineer
3 20 (25.64%) Robotics Engineer
4 15 (19.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (14.10%) Senior
6 5 (6.41%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) C# Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Principal Software Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 2 (2.56%) .NET Developer
9 2 (2.56%) Development Manager
9 2 (2.56%) Research Engineer
9 2 (2.56%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.56%) Senior Manager
9 2 (2.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.64%) Middleware
2 14 (17.95%) .NET
3 9 (11.54%) Web Services
4 8 (10.26%) Vue
4 8 (10.26%) YAML
5 6 (7.69%) React
6 4 (5.13%) TensorFlow
7 3 (3.85%) Kafka
7 3 (3.85%) Node.js
7 3 (3.85%) PyTorch
7 3 (3.85%) Spring
7 3 (3.85%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.56%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.56%) Anaconda
8 2 (2.56%) JSON
8 2 (2.56%) REST
8 2 (2.56%) scikit-learn
9 1 (1.28%) Laravel
9 1 (1.28%) OpenCL
9 1 (1.28%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 23 (29.49%) Algorithms
2 21 (26.92%) Robotics
3 5 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.56%) Life Science
6 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.28%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (1.28%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.28%) CUDA
7 1 (1.28%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.69%) Linux
2 5 (6.41%) Windows
3 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.28%) Android
4 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.77%) OO
2 22 (28.21%) Full-Stack Development
2 22 (28.21%) Project Management
3 20 (25.64%) Control Theory
4 18 (23.08%) Agile
5 15 (19.23%) CI/CD
6 13 (16.67%) Scrum
7 10 (12.82%) Machine Learning
8 9 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (10.26%) AI
9 8 (10.26%) Clean Code
9 8 (10.26%) Dependency Injection
9 8 (10.26%) Microservices
9 8 (10.26%) Push Notifications
9 8 (10.26%) SOLID
10 7 (8.97%) DevOps
11 6 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (6.41%) Computer Science
12 5 (6.41%) Mentoring
13 4 (5.13%) Image Processing
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.03%) C#
2 26 (33.33%) C++
3 22 (28.21%) C
4 17 (21.79%) Python
5 15 (19.23%) JavaScript
6 8 (10.26%) VB.NET
7 5 (6.41%) Java
7 5 (6.41%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.85%) PHP
8 3 (3.85%) SQL
9 2 (2.56%) Rust
10 1 (1.28%) Fortran
10 1 (1.28%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (8.97%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) PhD
3 2 (2.56%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.28%) HNC
4 1 (1.28%) MCP
4 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.28%) EU AI Act
1 1 (1.28%) GxP
1 1 (1.28%) NIST
1 1 (1.28%) QA
1 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (10.26%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (5.13%) Ansible
2 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.28%) Istio
3 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.26%) DevExpress
3 1 (1.28%) Foundry
3 1 (1.28%) SAP