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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 2 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 -9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 84 203 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 12.44% 17.53% 12.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.36% 22.58% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 72 115 41
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% - +4.65%
75th Percentile £62,500 £79,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £74,750 £93,750 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +4.00%

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 585 899 618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.67% 77.63% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 409 511 330
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,422 £26,925
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,566 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.33% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £69,250
90th Percentile £72,000 £85,000 £84,550
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £53,312 £54,000
% change year-on-year -15.59% -1.27% +2.86%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -11 49 £55,000 -21.43% 55
Peterborough +16 27 £45,000 -16.28% 9
St Neots - 1 - -
Software Engineering
East of England

Software Engineering
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 23 (27.38%) Kinematics
2 2 (2.38%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.57%) Azure
2 9 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (3.57%) GCP
3 3 (3.57%) SaaS
4 2 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.19%) Figma
5 1 (1.19%) GitHub
5 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.19%) GSM
1 1 (1.19%) Internet
1 1 (1.19%) LTE
1 1 (1.19%) RS-232
1 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.19%) TETRA
1 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.57%) Redis
4 2 (2.38%) MySQL
5 1 (1.19%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) Git
2 4 (4.76%) GitLab
3 3 (3.57%) Selenium
4 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.38%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.38%) JIRA
4 2 (2.38%) Maven
4 2 (2.38%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.19%) GDB
5 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.19%) KGDB
5 1 (1.19%) Moq
5 1 (1.19%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.19%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (29.76%) Electronics
2 7 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.95%) Finance
5 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.38%) Banking
6 2 (2.38%) Law
6 2 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.19%) Automotive
7 1 (1.19%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.19%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Military
7 1 (1.19%) Publishing
7 1 (1.19%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (38.10%) Developer
2 25 (29.76%) Lead
3 23 (27.38%) Robotics Engineer
4 19 (22.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (19.05%) Software Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) .NET Developer
6 8 (9.52%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (9.52%) C# Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Senior
8 4 (4.76%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Python Software Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
10 2 (2.38%) C++ Developer
10 2 (2.38%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 2 (2.38%) Integration Engineer
10 2 (2.38%) Python Developer
10 2 (2.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.38%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.38%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (2.38%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.38%) Middleware
2 21 (25.00%) .NET
3 10 (11.90%) Vue
3 10 (11.90%) Web Services
3 10 (11.90%) YAML
4 5 (5.95%) React
5 4 (4.76%) Kafka
5 4 (4.76%) Node.js
5 4 (4.76%) Spring
5 4 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.57%) Anaconda
6 3 (3.57%) HTML
7 2 (2.38%) CSS
7 2 (2.38%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.38%) JPA
7 2 (2.38%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.38%) Redux
7 2 (2.38%) scikit-learn
7 2 (2.38%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.19%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.76%) Algorithms
2 24 (28.57%) Robotics
3 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.38%) SCADA
6 1 (1.19%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.19%) CRISPR
6 1 (1.19%) CUDA
6 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.19%) Genomics
6 1 (1.19%) Life Science
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.19%) NHS
6 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.14%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Android
3 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.19%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.76%) OO
2 24 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 23 (27.38%) Control Theory
3 23 (27.38%) Project Management
4 18 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 15 (17.86%) Agile
6 14 (16.67%) Microservices
7 13 (15.48%) Clean Code
7 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (11.90%) Dependency Injection
8 10 (11.90%) Machine Learning
8 10 (11.90%) Push Notifications
8 10 (11.90%) Scrum
8 10 (11.90%) SOLID
9 9 (10.71%) Computer Science
10 8 (9.52%) E-Commerce
11 7 (8.33%) DevOps
12 6 (7.14%) SDLC
13 5 (5.95%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 43 (51.19%) C#
2 30 (35.71%) C++
3 26 (30.95%) C
4 19 (22.62%) Python
5 17 (20.24%) JavaScript
6 10 (11.90%) VB.NET
7 7 (8.33%) Java
8 4 (4.76%) SQL
9 3 (3.57%) PHP
9 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.38%) Go
10 2 (2.38%) Rust
11 1 (1.19%) Fortran
11 1 (1.19%) R
11 1 (1.19%) VC++
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.57%) Master's Degree
2 3 (3.57%) PhD
3 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.19%) HNC
3 1 (1.19%) Postgraduate
3 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.19%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) QA
2 1 (1.19%) GxP
2 1 (1.19%) JTAG
2 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (7.14%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Ansible
2 1 (1.19%) Istio
2 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.90%) DevExpress
3 2 (2.38%) Allen-Bradley
3 2 (2.38%) Rockwell
3 2 (2.38%) Siemens
3 2 (2.38%) Solace
3 2 (2.38%) Wonderware
4 1 (1.19%) Facebook
4 1 (1.19%) SAP
4 1 (1.19%) YouTube