Software Engineering Jobs in Peterborough

Software Engineering
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Peterborough 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 33 38
Rank change year-on-year +23 +5 +13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 12 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Peterborough 13.04% 0.42% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.48% 0.67% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £50,000 - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.83%
75th Percentile £62,188 - £73,750
90th Percentile £73,750 - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% -3.70% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Peterborough

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 Peterborough.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89 150 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Peterborough 96.74% 63.29% 99.50%
Number of salaries quoted 63 110 107
10th Percentile £31,561 £25,675 £25,900
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £63,828 £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,300 £65,125 £69,250
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £51,422 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.51% +1.85% +2.86%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Peterborough.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Peterborough

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Peterborough

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Peterborough

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Peterborough

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Peterborough over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Peterborough

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Peterborough 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Bluetooth
1 7 (58.33%) Modbus
1 7 (58.33%) Profibus
1 7 (58.33%) RS-232
1 7 (58.33%) RS-485
1 7 (58.33%) Wireless
1 7 (58.33%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (58.33%) Electronics
1 7 (58.33%) Manufacturing
1 7 (58.33%) Organisational Skills
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 7 (58.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) PHP Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (8.33%) Java EE
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) TDD
1 7 (58.33%) Unit Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Fintech
4 1 (8.33%) MVC
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Software Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) C
1 7 (58.33%) C++
2 4 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) PHP
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 7 (58.33%) Firmware
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft