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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 296 105 290
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 18.16% 16.80% 18.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.73% 18.49% 23.03%
Number of salaries quoted 242 78 214
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £93,750
East of England median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -7.69%

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 1,197 568 1,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 73.44% 90.88% 78.39%
Number of salaries quoted 860 380 933
10th Percentile £30,250 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,906 £34,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,549 £75,125 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +4 228 £75,000 +36.36% 59
Peterborough 0 52 £61,500 +32.97% 3
St Neots -4 3 £50,000 - 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 6 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.34%) CMS
3 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.68%) EngageOne
Cloud Services
1 17 (5.74%) AWS
2 10 (3.38%) SaaS
3 9 (3.04%) Azure
4 6 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.01%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.01%) GCP
6 2 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (0.68%) Serverless
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.34%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.34%) GitHub
7 1 (0.34%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.39%) Wireless
2 10 (3.38%) Bluetooth
3 9 (3.04%) Modbus
3 9 (3.04%) Profibus
3 9 (3.04%) RS-232
3 9 (3.04%) RS-485
3 9 (3.04%) ZigBee
4 2 (0.68%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) LTE
5 1 (0.34%) VoIP
5 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.01%) LabVIEW
1 3 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (1.01%) PetaLinux
1 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.68%) Git
2 2 (0.68%) JIRA
3 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.34%) MLflow
3 1 (0.34%) Poetry
3 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (9.12%) Manufacturing
2 22 (7.43%) Social Skills
3 18 (6.08%) Electronics
4 10 (3.38%) Telecoms
5 9 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (1.69%) Front Office
7 4 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.01%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.68%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.34%) Aviation
10 1 (0.34%) Finance
10 1 (0.34%) Marketing
10 1 (0.34%) Military
10 1 (0.34%) Wearables
10 1 (0.34%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 212 (71.62%) Software Engineer
2 94 (31.76%) Senior
3 75 (25.34%) Senior Software Engineer
4 74 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 64 (21.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 37 (12.50%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 36 (12.16%) C++ Software Engineer
8 34 (11.49%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 30 (10.14%) Lead
10 26 (8.78%) Linux Engineer
11 25 (8.45%) Developer
12 23 (7.77%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (6.76%) Principal Engineer
14 19 (6.42%) Rust Engineer
14 19 (6.42%) Rust Software Engineer
15 18 (6.08%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
16 17 (5.74%) Embedded Linux Engineer
17 14 (4.73%) Senior Linux Engineer
17 14 (4.73%) Software Engineering Manager
17 14 (4.73%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.74%) React
2 8 (2.70%) .NET
2 8 (2.70%) Web Services
3 7 (2.36%) Node.js
4 6 (2.03%) CSS
4 6 (2.03%) HTML
4 6 (2.03%) REST
5 5 (1.69%) Yocto
6 4 (1.35%) Qt
7 2 (0.68%) Middleware
7 2 (0.68%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.68%) Spring
7 2 (0.68%) STL
7 2 (0.68%) WebRTC
7 2 (0.68%) WPF
8 1 (0.34%) Anaconda
8 1 (0.34%) Micronaut
8 1 (0.34%) OpenCV
8 1 (0.34%) Torch
8 1 (0.34%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.47%) Embedded Systems
2 22 (7.43%) Cyber Threat
3 21 (7.09%) Robotics
4 20 (6.76%) Algorithms
5 13 (4.39%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.70%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.69%) 3D Printing
8 5 (1.69%) Device Driver
8 5 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.69%) IoT
8 5 (1.69%) RISC-V
9 4 (1.35%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.35%) FPGA
10 2 (0.68%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.68%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.68%) Media Streaming
10 2 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.51%) Linux
2 25 (8.45%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (3.38%) FreeRTOS
4 7 (2.36%) Windows
5 4 (1.35%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (11.82%) AI
3 23 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (7.43%) Agile
5 18 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (6.08%) Mentoring
6 16 (5.41%) Computer Science
7 15 (5.07%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (4.73%) Low Latency
8 14 (4.73%) Web Development
9 13 (4.39%) Automated Trading
9 13 (4.39%) High-Frequency Trading
9 13 (4.39%) Ultra-Low Latency
10 12 (4.05%) DevOps
11 11 (3.72%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (3.72%) OO
11 11 (3.72%) TDD
11 11 (3.72%) Test Automation
11 11 (3.72%) Unit Testing
12 10 (3.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 94 (31.76%) C++
2 56 (18.92%) Python
3 37 (12.50%) C
3 37 (12.50%) Rust
4 22 (7.43%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.08%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.07%) C#
7 10 (3.38%) Java
8 4 (1.35%) Elixir
8 4 (1.35%) MATLAB
8 4 (1.35%) Ruby
8 4 (1.35%) Scala
9 3 (1.01%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.01%) Go
9 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.01%) SQL
10 2 (0.68%) Bash
10 2 (0.68%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.34%) Clojure
11 1 (0.34%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 31 (10.47%) Degree
2 12 (4.05%) DBS Check
3 5 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.35%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.68%) HND
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.68%) PhD
5 2 (0.68%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.05%) QA
System Software
1 26 (8.78%) Firmware
2 16 (5.41%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (2.36%) Docker
4 5 (1.69%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (0.68%) Terraform
2 1 (0.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (2.70%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.35%) Oracle
3 3 (1.01%) Informatica
4 2 (0.68%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (0.68%) AVEVA
4 2 (0.68%) Rockwell
4 2 (0.68%) Siemens
4 2 (0.68%) Wonderware
5 1 (0.34%) Databricks