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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 236 93 295
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 16.03% 17.55% 16.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.75% 18.53% 21.77%
Number of salaries quoted 186 65 217
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -15.38% -5.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £93,750
East of England median annual salary £70,000 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.64% -1.67% -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 1,085 502 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 73.71% 94.72% 76.77%
Number of salaries quoted 762 327 994
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,988 £76,750 £84,625
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +4 173 £75,000 +36.36% 115
Peterborough +2 50 £61,500 +23.00% 5
St Neots -6 2 £50,000 - 3
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 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.42%) CMS
3 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.85%) EngageOne
Cloud Services
1 17 (7.20%) AWS
2 10 (4.24%) SaaS
3 6 (2.54%) Azure
3 6 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.27%) Amazon S3
5 2 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (0.85%) Serverless
5 2 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.42%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.42%) GitHub
6 1 (0.42%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.24%) Wireless
2 9 (3.81%) Bluetooth
3 8 (3.39%) Modbus
3 8 (3.39%) Profibus
3 8 (3.39%) RS-232
3 8 (3.39%) RS-485
3 8 (3.39%) ZigBee
4 2 (0.85%) Network Security
5 1 (0.42%) LTE
5 1 (0.42%) VoIP
5 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.85%) Redis
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.27%) LabVIEW
1 3 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (1.27%) PetaLinux
2 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.85%) Git
2 2 (0.85%) JIRA
3 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.42%) Poetry
3 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (10.59%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.75%) Manufacturing
3 14 (5.93%) Electronics
4 10 (4.24%) Telecoms
5 8 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.12%) Front Office
8 3 (1.27%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.42%) Aviation
9 1 (0.42%) Finance
9 1 (0.42%) Marketing
9 1 (0.42%) Wearables
9 1 (0.42%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 171 (72.46%) Software Engineer
2 73 (30.93%) Senior
3 65 (27.54%) Embedded Engineer
4 56 (23.73%) Senior Software Engineer
5 55 (23.31%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 33 (13.98%) Lead
7 29 (12.29%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 27 (11.44%) Lead Software Engineer
9 26 (11.02%) Linux Engineer
9 26 (11.02%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 25 (10.59%) C++ Software Engineer
11 17 (7.20%) Embedded Linux Engineer
11 17 (7.20%) Rust Engineer
11 17 (7.20%) Rust Software Engineer
12 16 (6.78%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (5.93%) Engineering Manager
13 14 (5.93%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 14 (5.93%) Senior Linux Engineer
13 14 (5.93%) Software Engineering Manager
13 14 (5.93%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.32%) React
2 13 (5.51%) Web Services
3 8 (3.39%) .NET
3 8 (3.39%) Node.js
4 6 (2.54%) CSS
4 6 (2.54%) HTML
4 6 (2.54%) REST
5 5 (2.12%) Yocto
6 2 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.85%) Qt
6 2 (0.85%) Spring
6 2 (0.85%) Vue
6 2 (0.85%) WebRTC
6 2 (0.85%) WPF
7 1 (0.42%) Anaconda
7 1 (0.42%) Django
7 1 (0.42%) Micronaut
7 1 (0.42%) NumPy
7 1 (0.42%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.42%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.17%) Embedded Systems
2 18 (7.63%) Product Ownership
3 16 (6.78%) Robotics
4 13 (5.51%) e-Learning
5 10 (4.24%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.12%) 3D Printing
6 5 (2.12%) IoT
7 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.27%) Device Driver
8 3 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.27%) FPGA
8 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.27%) RISC-V
9 2 (0.85%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.85%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.85%) SCADA
10 1 (0.42%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.42%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.56%) Linux
2 21 (8.90%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (3.81%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (1.69%) Robot Operating System
4 4 (1.69%) Windows
5 1 (0.42%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (10.59%) Agile
3 19 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (8.05%) Web Development
4 17 (7.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 17 (7.20%) Mentoring
5 16 (6.78%) Low Latency
5 16 (6.78%) User Experience
6 15 (6.36%) Automated Trading
6 15 (6.36%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 15 (6.36%) UX Design
7 14 (5.93%) AI
7 14 (5.93%) Computer Science
7 14 (5.93%) OO
8 13 (5.51%) High-Frequency Trading
8 13 (5.51%) Kanban
8 13 (5.51%) Requirements Gathering
8 13 (5.51%) Scrum
8 13 (5.51%) Scrum-ban
8 13 (5.51%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 62 (26.27%) C++
2 36 (15.25%) Python
3 30 (12.71%) C
4 27 (11.44%) JavaScript
5 23 (9.75%) Rust
6 17 (7.20%) Java
7 16 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.81%) C#
9 4 (1.69%) Elixir
9 4 (1.69%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.69%) Ruby
9 4 (1.69%) Scala
10 3 (1.27%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.27%) Go
10 3 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.27%) SQL
11 2 (0.85%) Bash
11 2 (0.85%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.42%) Clojure
12 1 (0.42%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 25 (10.59%) Degree
2 17 (7.20%) DBS Check
3 5 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.85%) HND
5 2 (0.85%) PhD
5 2 (0.85%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.36%) QA
System Software
1 20 (8.47%) Firmware
2 14 (5.93%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.27%) Docker
3 3 (1.27%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (0.85%) Terraform
2 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (2.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.69%) Oracle
3 3 (1.27%) Informatica
4 2 (0.85%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (0.85%) AVEVA
4 2 (0.85%) Rockwell
4 2 (0.85%) Siemens
4 2 (0.85%) Wonderware