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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 2 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 80 234 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 11.19% 21.08% 12.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.18% 26.35% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 71 126 40
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £39,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £70,750
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -4.59% +13.20%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,750 £85,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £90,000 £90,250
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +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 607 888 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.90% 80.00% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 425 424 337
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £47,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,000 £85,000 £84,050
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% +2.86%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 -14 47 £55,000 -21.43% 61
Peterborough +12 26 £42,500 -20.93% 4
St Neots - 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 23 (28.75%) Kinematics
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.50%) Azure
2 10 (12.50%) AWS
3 4 (5.00%) SaaS
4 3 (3.75%) GCP
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.25%) Figma
6 1 (1.25%) GitHub
6 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) GSM
1 1 (1.25%) Internet
1 1 (1.25%) LTE
1 1 (1.25%) RS-232
1 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.25%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.50%) MySQL
3 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.50%) Redis
4 1 (1.25%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Git
2 4 (5.00%) GitLab
3 3 (3.75%) Selenium
4 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.50%) JIRA
4 2 (2.50%) Maven
4 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.25%) Moq
5 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.25%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (30.00%) Electronics
2 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.00%) Finance
4 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.75%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Banking
5 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.25%) Automotive
6 1 (1.25%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.25%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.25%) Law
6 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.25%) Marketing
6 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (40.00%) Developer
2 24 (30.00%) Lead
3 23 (28.75%) Robotics Engineer
4 19 (23.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (18.75%) Software Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) C# Developer
7 7 (8.75%) .NET Developer
7 7 (8.75%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior
9 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Python Software Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Applications Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Backend Developer
10 2 (2.50%) Graduate
10 2 (2.50%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Python Developer
10 2 (2.50%) Research Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.75%) Middleware
2 20 (25.00%) .NET
3 10 (12.50%) Vue
3 10 (12.50%) Web Services
3 10 (12.50%) YAML
4 7 (8.75%) React
5 5 (6.25%) Kafka
5 5 (6.25%) Spring
5 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.00%) Node.js
7 3 (3.75%) HTML
7 3 (3.75%) TensorFlow
8 2 (2.50%) Anaconda
8 2 (2.50%) CSS
8 2 (2.50%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.50%) JPA
8 2 (2.50%) PyTorch
8 2 (2.50%) Redux
8 2 (2.50%) scikit-learn
9 1 (1.25%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 25 (31.25%) Algorithms
2 24 (30.00%) Robotics
3 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.50%) Life Science
4 2 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.25%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.25%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.25%) CRISPR
5 1 (1.25%) CUDA
5 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Genomics
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Linux
1 6 (7.50%) Windows
2 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.25%) Android
3 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.50%) Full-Stack Development
1 26 (32.50%) OO
2 23 (28.75%) Control Theory
2 23 (28.75%) Project Management
3 19 (23.75%) CI/CD
4 17 (21.25%) Agile
5 14 (17.50%) Microservices
6 13 (16.25%) Clean Code
7 11 (13.75%) Machine Learning
7 11 (13.75%) Scrum
8 10 (12.50%) AI
8 10 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
8 10 (12.50%) Push Notifications
8 10 (12.50%) SOLID
9 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (10.00%) Computer Science
10 8 (10.00%) DevOps
11 7 (8.75%) E-Commerce
12 5 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (6.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (52.50%) C#
2 30 (37.50%) C++
3 25 (31.25%) C
4 19 (23.75%) Python
5 18 (22.50%) JavaScript
6 10 (12.50%) VB.NET
7 7 (8.75%) Java
8 4 (5.00%) SQL
8 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.75%) PHP
10 2 (2.50%) Rust
11 1 (1.25%) Fortran
11 1 (1.25%) Go
11 1 (1.25%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) PhD
3 3 (3.75%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.25%) HNC
5 1 (1.25%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) GxP
2 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (1.25%) Istio
3 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) DevExpress
3 2 (2.50%) Solace
4 1 (1.25%) Facebook
4 1 (1.25%) SAP
4 1 (1.25%) YouTube