Software Engineer Jobs in Northampton

Software Engineer
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Software Engineer salary in Northampton is £49,050 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 40 43
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 17 7 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 3.37% 1.75% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.46% 1.77% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £39,616 £38,750 -
25th Percentile £42,680 £40,938 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,050 £58,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% +17.50% +29.03%
75th Percentile £54,157 £71,250 -
90th Percentile £56,463 - -
Northamptonshire median annual salary £49,050 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.57% -12.50% +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 491 395 268
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.23% 98.75% 86.73%
Number of salaries quoted 181 327 177
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 £75,650
Northamptonshire median annual salary £47,683 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +19.21% -23.81% +5.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Northampton

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Northampton

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Northampton

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Northampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Northampton over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Northampton

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (82.35%) Agile
2 13 (76.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (70.59%) Software Testing
3 12 (70.59%) MATLAB
3 12 (70.59%) Simulink
3 12 (70.59%) Automotive
4 11 (64.71%) Validation
4 11 (64.71%) Aerospace
4 11 (64.71%) Systems Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Java
6 3 (17.65%) Linux
6 3 (17.65%) Degree
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
7 2 (11.76%) SDLC
7 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Rust
7 2 (11.76%) JIRA
7 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.76%) Confluence
7 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
7 2 (11.76%) CSS
7 2 (11.76%) C#
7 2 (11.76%) HTML
7 2 (11.76%) SQL
7 2 (11.76%) Python
7 2 (11.76%) Windows
8 1 (5.88%) Hibernate

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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (70.59%) Simulink
2 1 (5.88%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.88%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Maven
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (70.59%) Automotive
2 11 (64.71%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Electronics
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) CSS
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
2 1 (5.88%) JPA
2 1 (5.88%) JSP
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) Redux
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Agile
2 12 (70.59%) Software Testing
3 11 (64.71%) Systems Engineering
3 11 (64.71%) Validation
4 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
6 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
6 2 (11.76%) SDLC
6 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
7 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.88%) ETL
7 1 (5.88%) OOD
7 1 (5.88%) Physics
7 1 (5.88%) TDD
7 1 (5.88%) UML
7 1 (5.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) MATLAB
2 3 (17.65%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Rust
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Ada
4 1 (5.88%) C
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
1 1 (5.88%) Solace