Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Northampton

Senior Software Engineer
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Northampton is £58,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 45 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 6 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 1.18% 1.00% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 1.01% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.07% +35.00% -
Northamptonshire median annual salary £58,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.48% -12.50% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Northampton. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Northampton with a recognized job title 493 396 265
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.24% 98.75% 86.60%
Number of salaries quoted 181 328 176
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,807 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.30% -18.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £76,125
Northamptonshire median annual salary £47,683 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +19.21% -23.81% +5.00%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Northampton

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Northampton.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Northampton

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Senior Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Northampton region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (83.33%) Software Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Aerospace
3 4 (66.67%) Automotive
3 4 (66.67%) Validation
3 4 (66.67%) Systems Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) MATLAB
3 4 (66.67%) Simulink
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Confluence
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (16.67%) Ansible
5 1 (16.67%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) Rust
5 1 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (16.67%) MySQL
5 1 (16.67%) Windows
5 1 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) JIRA
5 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Simulink
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Aerospace
1 4 (66.67%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Software Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Systems Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) MATLAB
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian