Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Northamptonshire

Senior Software Engineer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Northamptonshire is £58,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 50 52
Rank change year-on-year -21 +2 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 6 15 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 0.72% 2.17% 2.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 2.25% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 2
10th Percentile - - £51,000
25th Percentile - £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -12.50% -
75th Percentile - £58,750 £72,500
90th Percentile - £71,250 £77,000
East Midlands median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 817 666 464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.32% 96.38% 87.55%
Number of salaries quoted 260 522 255
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% -23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £52,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £73,750
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Northamptonshire

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Northamptonshire

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northampton -5 6 £58,000 -14.07% 1
Senior Software Engineer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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