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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 9 2
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 440 82 226
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 20.65% 11.83% 19.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.39% 13.71% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 384 73 119
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.18% -18.52% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,600 £90,250
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 1,497 598 922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 70.25% 86.29% 79.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,160 404 467
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,783 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.05% -16.76% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,350 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £52,000 £45,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +15.56% -16.67% -1.82%

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 3 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 3 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 +12 359 £75,000 +36.36% 413
Peterborough -3 39 £61,500 +36.67% 32
St Neots -8 3 £50,000 - 6
Ely - 2 - - 6
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 (4.32%) AWS
2 12 (2.73%) Azure
3 10 (2.27%) GCP
4 7 (1.59%) 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%) 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%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.23%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.50%) Wireless
2 8 (1.82%) Bluetooth
2 8 (1.82%) Modbus
2 8 (1.82%) Profibus
2 8 (1.82%) RS-232
2 8 (1.82%) RS-485
2 8 (1.82%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.36%) 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 (1.14%) PetaLinux
2 4 (0.91%) 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 (8.18%) Manufacturing
2 33 (7.50%) Electronics
3 25 (5.68%) Social Skills
4 18 (4.09%) Tech for Good
5 8 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.59%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.14%) Front Office
7 5 (1.14%) Health Technology
8 4 (0.91%) Automotive
9 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.68%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.23%) Aviation
10 1 (0.23%) Legal
10 1 (0.23%) Marketing
10 1 (0.23%) Military
10 1 (0.23%) Police
10 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 334 (75.91%) Software Engineer
2 149 (33.86%) Senior
3 123 (27.95%) Senior Software Engineer
4 87 (19.77%) Embedded Engineer
5 76 (17.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 55 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
7 43 (9.77%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 42 (9.55%) Developer
9 41 (9.32%) Principal Engineer
10 40 (9.09%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 35 (7.95%) Principal Software Engineer
11 35 (7.95%) Python Engineer
12 32 (7.27%) Python Software Engineer
13 31 (7.05%) Python Developer
14 29 (6.59%) Linux Engineer
15 28 (6.36%) Robotics Software Engineer
16 24 (5.45%) Lead
17 19 (4.32%) Embedded Linux Engineer
17 19 (4.32%) Lead Software Engineer
18 14 (3.18%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.18%) React
2 9 (2.05%) Yocto
3 6 (1.36%) Node.js
3 6 (1.36%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.14%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.14%) Web Services
5 4 (0.91%) .NET
5 4 (0.91%) Google JAX
5 4 (0.91%) JAX
5 4 (0.91%) Keras
5 4 (0.91%) REST
5 4 (0.91%) STL
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 59 (13.41%) Cyber Threat
2 54 (12.27%) Robotics
3 40 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 34 (7.73%) Embedded Systems
5 20 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.05%) Device Driver
7 8 (1.82%) FPGA
7 8 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.36%) IoT
9 6 (1.36%) RISC-V
10 5 (1.14%) 3D Printing
10 5 (1.14%) e-Learning
11 4 (0.91%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.91%) 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%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 67 (15.23%) Linux
2 34 (7.73%) Embedded Linux
3 12 (2.73%) Windows
4 8 (1.82%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.91%) Android
5 4 (0.91%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (19.55%) AI
2 70 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (15.23%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (6.36%) Computer Science
5 25 (5.68%) Agile
6 19 (4.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (4.32%) Mentoring
7 16 (3.64%) Machine Learning
8 15 (3.41%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (2.95%) DevOps
10 12 (2.73%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (2.73%) TDD
11 11 (2.50%) Mathematics
11 11 (2.50%) Unit Testing
12 10 (2.27%) Multithreading
12 10 (2.27%) Project Delivery
12 10 (2.27%) Prototyping
12 10 (2.27%) Rapid Prototyping
13 9 (2.05%) Data Science
13 9 (2.05%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 126 (28.64%) C++
2 117 (26.59%) Python
3 40 (9.09%) C
4 37 (8.41%) C#
5 34 (7.73%) Rust
6 28 (6.36%) TypeScript
7 19 (4.32%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.05%) Java
9 6 (1.36%) Embedded C
9 6 (1.36%) Embedded C++
9 6 (1.36%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.14%) SQL
11 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.23%) Clojure
12 1 (0.23%) Haskell
12 1 (0.23%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 45 (10.23%) Degree
2 9 (2.05%) DBS Check
3 7 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.14%) PhD
4 5 (1.14%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.45%) HND
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 25 (5.68%) Firmware
2 14 (3.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 9 (2.05%) Docker
4 6 (1.36%) QEMU
5 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (0.23%) Ansible
1 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (2.95%) RedGate
2 7 (1.59%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.14%) Oracle
4 4 (0.91%) 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