Software Developer Job Trends in Northampton

Software Developer
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Software Developer salary in Northampton is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 33 30
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 2 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Northampton 0.79% 0.63% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.65% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £51,000 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - £59,000 -
Northamptonshire median annual salary £52,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -11.11% +50.00%

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 246 306 190
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.23% 96.84% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 177 184 156
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,625 £75,625
Northamptonshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +15.79%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Software Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Software Developer job vacancy trend in Northampton

Software Developer
Salary Trend in Northampton

Salary distribution trend for Software Developer job vacancies in Northampton.

Salary distribution trend for Software Developer job vacancies in Northampton

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Software Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Northampton region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) SQL

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL