In recent years, deep learning has achieved excellent performance in software engineering (SE) tasks. Excellent performance in practical tasks depends on large-scale training sets, and collecting and labeling large-scale training sets require a lot of resources and costs, which limits the wide application of deep learning techniques in practical tasks. With the release of pre-trained model (PTM) in the field of deep learning, researchers in SE have begun to pay attention to PTM and introduced PTM into SE tasks. PTM has made a qualitative leap in SE tasks, which makes intelligent software engineering enter a new era. However, none of the studies have refined the success, failure, and opportunities of pre-trained models in SE. To clarify the work in this cross-field (pre-trained models for software engineering, PTM4SE), this study systematically reviews the current studies related to PTM4SE. Specifically, the study first describes the framework of the intelligent software engineering methods based on pre-trained models and then analyzes the commonly used pre-trained models in SE. Meanwhile, it introduces the downstream tasks in SE with pre-trained models in detail and compares and analyzes the performance of pre-trained model techniques on these tasks. The study then presents the datasets used in SE for training and fine-tuning the PTMs. Finally, it discusses the challenges and opportunities for PTM4SE. The collated PTMs and datasets in SE are published athttps://github.com/OpenSELab/PTM4SE.