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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 178 86 252
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 13.40% 17.73% 16.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.54% 18.53% 20.49%
Number of salaries quoted 143 61 192
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £37,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.04% -11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,250 £93,750
East of England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -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 960 464 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 72.29% 95.67% 79.10%
Number of salaries quoted 634 301 922
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £42,156 £40,000 £36,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £50,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £71,550
90th Percentile £96,250 £79,529 £82,500
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% -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 4 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 4 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 +2 142 £76,500 +27.50% 72
Peterborough +6 30 £61,500 +6.96% 7
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 (2.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.12%) EngageOne
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.80%) AWS
2 9 (5.06%) SaaS
3 5 (2.81%) Azure
4 4 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.12%) Serverless
6 2 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.81%) Bluetooth
1 5 (2.81%) Wireless
2 4 (2.25%) Modbus
2 4 (2.25%) Profibus
2 4 (2.25%) RS-232
2 4 (2.25%) RS-485
2 4 (2.25%) ZigBee
3 2 (1.12%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) LTE
4 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.25%) Redis
3 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.69%) LabVIEW
1 3 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.56%) Git
2 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.56%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Poetry
2 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (10.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.62%) Manufacturing
2 10 (5.62%) Telecoms
3 6 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.37%) Electronics
4 5 (2.81%) Tech for Good
5 4 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Finance
6 3 (1.69%) Front Office
7 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.56%) Wearables
7 1 (0.56%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 133 (74.72%) Software Engineer
2 57 (32.02%) Senior
3 44 (24.72%) Senior Software Engineer
4 32 (17.98%) Embedded Engineer
5 31 (17.42%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 24 (13.48%) Lead
7 22 (12.36%) C++ Software Engineer
8 20 (11.24%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (11.24%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 20 (11.24%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 17 (9.55%) Rust Engineer
9 17 (9.55%) Rust Software Engineer
10 13 (7.30%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 12 (6.74%) Developer
12 10 (5.62%) Linux Engineer
12 10 (5.62%) Software Manager
13 9 (5.06%) Engineering Manager
13 9 (5.06%) Senior Linux Engineer
13 9 (5.06%) Software Engineering Manager
14 8 (4.49%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.92%) React
2 14 (7.87%) Web Services
3 10 (5.62%) .NET
4 7 (3.93%) Node.js
5 5 (2.81%) REST
6 4 (2.25%) CSS
6 4 (2.25%) HTML
7 3 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.69%) Vue
8 2 (1.12%) DirectX
8 2 (1.12%) OpenGL
8 2 (1.12%) OpenGL ES
8 2 (1.12%) Vulkan
8 2 (1.12%) WebRTC
9 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.56%) JSON
9 1 (0.56%) Qt
9 1 (0.56%) Spring
9 1 (0.56%) TAPI
9 1 (0.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.67%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.87%) e-Learning
3 9 (5.06%) Robotics
4 8 (4.49%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.69%) RISC-V
6 2 (1.12%) 3D Printing
6 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.12%) IoT
7 1 (0.56%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.56%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.56%) Life Science
7 1 (0.56%) NB-IoT
7 1 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.74%) Linux
2 6 (3.37%) Windows
3 5 (2.81%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.56%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (12.92%) Agile
2 22 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (11.80%) Full-Stack Development
3 21 (11.80%) Low Latency
4 18 (10.11%) Automated Trading
4 18 (10.11%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 18 (10.11%) Web Development
5 17 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (9.55%) User Experience
5 17 (9.55%) UX Design
6 15 (8.43%) OO
6 15 (8.43%) Scrum
7 14 (7.87%) Kanban
7 14 (7.87%) Product Vision
7 14 (7.87%) Requirements Gathering
7 14 (7.87%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 14 (7.87%) Scrum-ban
7 14 (7.87%) Test Strategy
8 13 (7.30%) High-Frequency Trading
9 11 (6.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (23.60%) C++
2 31 (17.42%) Python
3 22 (12.36%) JavaScript
3 22 (12.36%) Rust
4 18 (10.11%) Java
5 16 (8.99%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.30%) C
7 4 (2.25%) Elixir
7 4 (2.25%) Ruby
7 4 (2.25%) Scala
7 4 (2.25%) SQL
8 3 (1.69%) C#
8 3 (1.69%) Go
8 3 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.12%) Bash
10 1 (0.56%) Clojure
10 1 (0.56%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.56%) Haskell
10 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.56%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 18 (10.11%) DBS Check
2 15 (8.43%) Degree
3 2 (1.12%) PhD
4 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.43%) QA
System Software
1 11 (6.18%) Firmware
2 6 (3.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.69%) Docker
3 3 (1.69%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (1.12%) Terraform
2 1 (0.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (2.25%) Microsoft
1 4 (2.25%) Oracle
2 3 (1.69%) Informatica