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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 197 90 259
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 13.84% 18.00% 16.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.14% 18.75% 20.74%
Number of salaries quoted 154 63 199
10th Percentile £50,750 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £65,625 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% -12.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,000 £93,750
East of England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -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 1,029 480 1,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 72.31% 96.00% 78.90%
Number of salaries quoted 699 313 937
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,250 £78,750 £82,200
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 May 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 May 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 +3 149 £76,500 +39.09% 70
Peterborough +5 40 £61,500 +6.96% 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 6 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.02%) EngageOne
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.64%) AWS
2 9 (4.57%) SaaS
3 6 (3.05%) Azure
3 6 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.52%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.02%) Serverless
5 2 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.05%) Bluetooth
1 6 (3.05%) Wireless
2 5 (2.54%) Modbus
2 5 (2.54%) Profibus
2 5 (2.54%) RS-232
2 5 (2.54%) RS-485
2 5 (2.54%) ZigBee
3 2 (1.02%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) LTE
4 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (1.52%) Redis
3 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.52%) LabVIEW
1 3 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.02%) PetaLinux
3 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.51%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) JIRA
3 1 (0.51%) Poetry
3 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (9.64%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.09%) Manufacturing
3 10 (5.08%) Telecoms
4 9 (4.57%) Electronics
5 6 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.54%) Front Office
6 5 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.54%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.52%) Finance
8 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.51%) Wearables
8 1 (0.51%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 141 (71.57%) Software Engineer
2 62 (31.47%) Senior
3 47 (23.86%) Senior Software Engineer
4 42 (21.32%) Embedded Engineer
5 37 (18.78%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 27 (13.71%) Lead
7 24 (12.18%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 22 (11.17%) C++ Software Engineer
8 22 (11.17%) Lead Software Engineer
8 22 (11.17%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 17 (8.63%) Rust Engineer
9 17 (8.63%) Rust Software Engineer
10 16 (8.12%) Linux Engineer
11 14 (7.11%) Developer
12 13 (6.60%) Engineering Manager
12 13 (6.60%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 13 (6.60%) Software Engineering Manager
12 13 (6.60%) Software Manager
13 12 (6.09%) Senior Linux Engineer
14 9 (4.57%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.18%) React
2 13 (6.60%) Web Services
3 10 (5.08%) .NET
4 9 (4.57%) Node.js
5 6 (3.05%) CSS
5 6 (3.05%) HTML
5 6 (3.05%) REST
6 4 (2.03%) Yocto
7 3 (1.52%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.52%) Vue
8 2 (1.02%) DirectX
8 2 (1.02%) OpenGL
8 2 (1.02%) OpenGL ES
8 2 (1.02%) Vulkan
8 2 (1.02%) WebRTC
9 1 (0.51%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.51%) Keras
9 1 (0.51%) Spring
9 1 (0.51%) TAPI
9 1 (0.51%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.14%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.61%) Embedded Systems
3 13 (6.60%) e-Learning
3 13 (6.60%) Robotics
4 7 (3.55%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.54%) 3D Printing
6 4 (2.03%) IoT
7 3 (1.52%) Device Driver
7 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.52%) RISC-V
8 2 (1.02%) FPGA
9 1 (0.51%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.51%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.51%) Life Science
9 1 (0.51%) NB-IoT
9 1 (0.51%) NHS
9 1 (0.51%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.15%) Linux
2 10 (5.08%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (3.05%) FreeRTOS
3 6 (3.05%) Windows
4 2 (1.02%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.51%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (11.68%) Agile
3 20 (10.15%) Low Latency
4 19 (9.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (9.64%) Web Development
5 17 (8.63%) Automated Trading
5 17 (8.63%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 16 (8.12%) User Experience
6 16 (8.12%) UX Design
7 15 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (7.11%) OO
9 13 (6.60%) AI
9 13 (6.60%) High-Frequency Trading
9 13 (6.60%) Kanban
9 13 (6.60%) Mentoring
9 13 (6.60%) Requirements Gathering
9 13 (6.60%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 13 (6.60%) Scrum
9 13 (6.60%) Scrum-ban
9 13 (6.60%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.87%) C++
2 34 (17.26%) Python
3 23 (11.68%) JavaScript
4 22 (11.17%) Rust
5 18 (9.14%) C
6 17 (8.63%) Java
7 15 (7.61%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.54%) C#
9 4 (2.03%) Elixir
9 4 (2.03%) Ruby
9 4 (2.03%) Scala
10 3 (1.52%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.52%) Go
10 3 (1.52%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.52%) SQL
11 2 (1.02%) Bash
11 2 (1.02%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.51%) Clojure
12 1 (0.51%) RPG
Qualifications
1 18 (9.14%) Degree
2 17 (8.63%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.02%) PhD
5 1 (0.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.11%) QA
System Software
1 12 (6.09%) Firmware
2 7 (3.55%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.52%) QEMU
4 2 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (3.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.03%) Oracle
3 3 (1.52%) Informatica
4 1 (0.51%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (0.51%) AVEVA
4 1 (0.51%) Rockwell
4 1 (0.51%) Siemens
4 1 (0.51%) Wonderware