Software Engineering Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Software Engineering
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 3 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 102 296 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 16.83% 17.82% 15.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.31% 22.89% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 75 220 65
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,750 £88,300
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

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 557 1,293 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 91.91% 77.84% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 364 960 489
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,725 £26,850
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +6.80%
75th Percentile £63,749 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Cambridgeshire.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Cambridgeshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 -4 59 £55,000 -16.18% 123
Peterborough +25 27 £48,750 -9.30% 12
Huntingdon +1 7 £60,000 +20.00% 1
St Neots - 1 - - 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 16 (15.69%) Kinematics
2 2 (1.96%) Confluence
2 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 27 (26.47%) Azure
2 20 (19.61%) AWS
3 9 (8.82%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (3.92%) Azure Pipelines
4 4 (3.92%) GCP
5 3 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.96%) Figma
6 2 (1.96%) Serverless
7 1 (0.98%) GitHub
7 1 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) Bluetooth
1 4 (3.92%) DHCP
1 4 (3.92%) DNS
1 4 (3.92%) Firewall
1 4 (3.92%) TCP/IP
1 4 (3.92%) VLAN
1 4 (3.92%) Wireless
2 3 (2.94%) Modbus
2 3 (2.94%) Profibus
2 3 (2.94%) RS-232
2 3 (2.94%) RS-485
2 3 (2.94%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.80%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.90%) Redis
4 4 (3.92%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.98%) MySQL
5 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (12.75%) Git
2 3 (2.94%) GitLab
2 3 (2.94%) JIRA
2 3 (2.94%) Selenium
2 3 (2.94%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.96%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.96%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.96%) Maven
3 2 (1.96%) Moq
3 2 (1.96%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.96%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.98%) GDB
4 1 (0.98%) KGDB
4 1 (0.98%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (20.59%) Electronics
2 13 (12.75%) Manufacturing
3 11 (10.78%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (8.82%) Social Skills
5 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.92%) Finance
7 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.94%) Law
7 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Banking
8 2 (1.96%) Digital Health
8 2 (1.96%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.98%) Automotive
9 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.98%) Legal
9 1 (0.98%) Military
9 1 (0.98%) Publishing
9 1 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (32.35%) Developer
2 31 (30.39%) Software Engineer
3 20 (19.61%) Lead
4 17 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (15.69%) Robotics Engineer
6 13 (12.75%) Senior
7 8 (7.84%) .NET Developer
7 8 (7.84%) C# .NET Developer
7 8 (7.84%) C# Developer
7 8 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) C# Software Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.51%) .NET
2 16 (15.69%) Middleware
3 10 (9.80%) PyTorch
3 10 (9.80%) scikit-learn
3 10 (9.80%) TensorFlow
3 10 (9.80%) Vue
3 10 (9.80%) Web Services
4 9 (8.82%) Keras
4 9 (8.82%) NumPy
5 8 (7.84%) YAML
6 7 (6.86%) .NET Framework
6 7 (6.86%) Entity Framework
6 7 (6.86%) Node.js
6 7 (6.86%) React
7 5 (4.90%) .NET Core
7 5 (4.90%) REST
8 4 (3.92%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.92%) GraphQL
8 4 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.47%) Algorithms
2 17 (16.67%) Robotics
3 7 (6.86%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.90%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (3.92%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.92%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.96%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.96%) SCADA
7 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.98%) CRISPR
7 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.98%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.98%) FPGA
7 1 (0.98%) Genomics
7 1 (0.98%) NHS
7 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Linux
2 3 (2.94%) Android
2 3 (2.94%) FreeRTOS
2 3 (2.94%) Windows
3 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.96%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (24.51%) Full-Stack Development
2 22 (21.57%) Agile
3 21 (20.59%) Artificial Intelligence
3 21 (20.59%) Computer Science
3 21 (20.59%) OO
4 18 (17.65%) Project Management
5 17 (16.67%) Mathematics
6 16 (15.69%) CI/CD
6 16 (15.69%) Control Theory
6 16 (15.69%) Machine Learning
6 16 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (14.71%) Scrum
8 14 (13.73%) Physics
9 13 (12.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 13 (12.75%) SDLC
10 12 (11.76%) Microservices
11 11 (10.78%) Clean Code
11 11 (10.78%) Data Science
11 11 (10.78%) DevOps
12 10 (9.80%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 40 (39.22%) C#
2 34 (33.33%) Python
3 26 (25.49%) C++
4 22 (21.57%) C
5 16 (15.69%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.78%) TypeScript
7 10 (9.80%) Java
8 8 (7.84%) SQL
8 8 (7.84%) VB.NET
9 3 (2.94%) Rust
10 1 (0.98%) Go
10 1 (0.98%) PHP
10 1 (0.98%) R
10 1 (0.98%) VC++
Qualifications
1 25 (24.51%) Degree
2 11 (10.78%) PhD
3 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.96%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.98%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (0.98%) CDISC
2 1 (0.98%) JTAG
2 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (11.76%) Docker
2 4 (3.92%) Firmware
3 3 (2.94%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.84%) DevExpress
3 2 (1.96%) Allen-Bradley
3 2 (1.96%) Facebook
3 2 (1.96%) Rockwell
3 2 (1.96%) Siemens
3 2 (1.96%) Solace
3 2 (1.96%) Wonderware
3 2 (1.96%) YouTube
4 1 (0.98%) Google