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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 9 2
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 +10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 431 81 220
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 20.37% 11.89% 18.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.95% 13.82% 23.40%
Number of salaries quoted 372 71 116
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,563 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -18.52% -1.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £79,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £92,500
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 1,489 586 940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 70.37% 86.05% 78.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 402 487
10th Percentile £31,125 £26,250 £30,253
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 £72,000 £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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +13 350 £75,000 +36.36% 331
Peterborough -2 41 £61,500 +44.71% 21
St Neots -7 3 £50,000 - 3
Ely - 2 - - 2
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 4 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.23%) CMS
3 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (4.64%) AWS
2 13 (3.02%) Azure
3 10 (2.32%) GCP
4 8 (1.86%) SaaS
5 4 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (0.70%) GitHub
7 2 (0.46%) ChatGPT
7 2 (0.46%) Google Gemini
7 2 (0.46%) Google Sheets
7 2 (0.46%) Google Workspace
7 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.23%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.23%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.23%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.55%) Wireless
2 8 (1.86%) Bluetooth
2 8 (1.86%) Modbus
2 8 (1.86%) Profibus
2 8 (1.86%) RS-232
2 8 (1.86%) RS-485
2 8 (1.86%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.46%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.16%) PetaLinux
2 4 (0.93%) Git
3 3 (0.70%) LabVIEW
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.23%) GitLab
4 1 (0.23%) JIRA
4 1 (0.23%) MLflow
4 1 (0.23%) Poetry
General
1 37 (8.58%) Manufacturing
2 33 (7.66%) Electronics
3 27 (6.26%) Social Skills
4 15 (3.48%) Tech for Good
5 9 (2.09%) Telecoms
6 8 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.16%) Front Office
8 5 (1.16%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.70%) Automotive
9 3 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.70%) 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
1 326 (75.64%) Software Engineer
2 144 (33.41%) Senior
3 118 (27.38%) Senior Software Engineer
4 87 (20.19%) Embedded Engineer
5 76 (17.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 50 (11.60%) C++ Software Engineer
7 44 (10.21%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 41 (9.51%) Principal Engineer
8 41 (9.51%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 40 (9.28%) Developer
10 35 (8.12%) Principal Software Engineer
11 34 (7.89%) Python Engineer
12 31 (7.19%) Python Software Engineer
13 30 (6.96%) Linux Engineer
13 30 (6.96%) Python Developer
14 25 (5.80%) Lead
15 24 (5.57%) Robotics Software Engineer
16 20 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
17 19 (4.41%) Embedded Linux Engineer
18 16 (3.71%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.94%) React
2 9 (2.09%) Yocto
3 7 (1.62%) Node.js
3 7 (1.62%) Web Services
4 6 (1.39%) PyTorch
5 5 (1.16%) REST
5 5 (1.16%) TensorFlow
6 4 (0.93%) .NET
6 4 (0.93%) CSS
6 4 (0.93%) Google JAX
6 4 (0.93%) HTML
6 4 (0.93%) JAX
6 4 (0.93%) Keras
6 4 (0.93%) STL
7 3 (0.70%) Middleware
7 3 (0.70%) Qt
7 3 (0.70%) Vue
8 2 (0.46%) DCOM
8 2 (0.46%) Django
8 2 (0.46%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 52 (12.06%) Cyber Threat
2 50 (11.60%) Robotics
3 39 (9.05%) Algorithms
4 33 (7.66%) Embedded Systems
5 20 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.32%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.09%) Device Driver
7 9 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.86%) FPGA
9 7 (1.62%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.39%) IoT
10 6 (1.39%) RISC-V
11 5 (1.16%) 3D Printing
12 4 (0.93%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.70%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.70%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.70%) Media Streaming
13 3 (0.70%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.46%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 65 (15.08%) Linux
2 34 (7.89%) Embedded Linux
3 12 (2.78%) Windows
4 8 (1.86%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.93%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (0.70%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (18.56%) AI
2 70 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (13.92%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (6.50%) Computer Science
5 25 (5.80%) Agile
6 21 (4.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (4.64%) Mentoring
8 15 (3.48%) Machine Learning
8 15 (3.48%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (3.25%) DevOps
9 14 (3.25%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (2.55%) Mathematics
10 11 (2.55%) TDD
10 11 (2.55%) Unit Testing
10 11 (2.55%) Web Development
11 10 (2.32%) Multithreading
11 10 (2.32%) OO
11 10 (2.32%) Project Delivery
11 10 (2.32%) Prototyping
11 10 (2.32%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 122 (28.31%) C++
2 117 (27.15%) Python
3 40 (9.28%) C
4 37 (8.58%) C#
5 36 (8.35%) Rust
6 28 (6.50%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.10%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.09%) Java
9 6 (1.39%) Embedded C
9 6 (1.39%) Embedded C++
9 6 (1.39%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.16%) SQL
11 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.23%) Clojure
12 1 (0.23%) Haskell
12 1 (0.23%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 45 (10.44%) Degree
2 11 (2.55%) DBS Check
3 7 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.16%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.16%) PhD
4 5 (1.16%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.46%) HND
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 25 (5.80%) Firmware
2 14 (3.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 9 (2.09%) Docker
4 6 (1.39%) 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 11 (2.55%) RedGate
2 8 (1.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.16%) Oracle
4 3 (0.70%) Foundry
4 3 (0.70%) Informatica
5 2 (0.46%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (0.46%) AVEVA
5 2 (0.46%) Google
5 2 (0.46%) Rockwell
5 2 (0.46%) Siemens
5 2 (0.46%) Wonderware
6 1 (0.23%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.23%) Databricks
6 1 (0.23%) Panasonic
6 1 (0.23%) Sony