Software Engineering Jobs in Northamptonshire

Software Engineering
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 28 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 -14
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 63 45 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 7.51% 5.96% 8.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.92% 7.65% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7 31 4
10th Percentile £43,530 £35,000 -
25th Percentile £48,125 £45,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -12.50% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,000 £97,500
90th Percentile - £85,000 £129,000
East Midlands median annual salary £63,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.50% -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 795 588 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 94.76% 77.88% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 220 422 230
10th Percentile £26,700 £24,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,031 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £41,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.30% -25.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £78,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £44,050 £50,498
% change year-on-year +2.16% -12.77% +6.31%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Northamptonshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Northamptonshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Northamptonshire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 22 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 +9 34 £49,050 -1.90% 7
Daventry - 6 £60,000 - 2
Kettering 0 1 - - 1
Brackley -4 1 - -
Corby - 1 - - 1
Wellingborough - 1 - -
Software Engineering
East Midlands

Software Engineering
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 26 (41.27%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (20.63%) Simulink
2 1 (1.59%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.68%) AWS
1 25 (39.68%) Azure
1 25 (39.68%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.68%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.59%) MySQL
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (41.27%) Bitbucket
1 26 (41.27%) JIRA
2 25 (39.68%) Cucumber
2 25 (39.68%) GitLab
2 25 (39.68%) Maven
2 25 (39.68%) Selenium
2 25 (39.68%) SonarQube
2 25 (39.68%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.59%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.59%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 25 (39.68%) Banking
1 25 (39.68%) Finance
1 25 (39.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (20.63%) Automotive
3 12 (19.05%) Aerospace
4 9 (14.29%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 29 (46.03%) Software Engineer
2 17 (26.98%) Principal Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) Software Assurance Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Analyst
4 5 (7.94%) Business Systems Analyst
4 5 (7.94%) Senior
4 5 (7.94%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) SQL Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Systems Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (1.59%) Business Analyst
8 1 (1.59%) Embedded Engineer
8 1 (1.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 1 (1.59%) Junior
8 1 (1.59%) Junior Software Engineer
8 1 (1.59%) SDLC Business Analyst
8 1 (1.59%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (1.59%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (41.27%) CSS
1 26 (41.27%) HTML
2 25 (39.68%) Hibernate
2 25 (39.68%) JPA
2 25 (39.68%) Kafka
2 25 (39.68%) React
2 25 (39.68%) Redux
2 25 (39.68%) Spring
2 25 (39.68%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.59%) .NET
3 1 (1.59%) JSP
3 1 (1.59%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 25 (39.68%) Enterprise Software
1 25 (39.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
1 2 (3.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (74.60%) Agile
2 39 (61.90%) SDLC
3 27 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 26 (41.27%) Test Automation
5 25 (39.68%) Clean Code
5 25 (39.68%) Containerisation
5 25 (39.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (39.68%) DevOps
5 25 (39.68%) Front End Development
5 25 (39.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (39.68%) Microservices
5 25 (39.68%) Performance Optimisation
5 25 (39.68%) TDD
6 21 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 21 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
7 12 (19.05%) Validation
8 9 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 9 (14.29%) Software Assurance
9 8 (12.70%) Waterfall
10 5 (7.94%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 31 (49.21%) SQL
2 27 (42.86%) Java
3 25 (39.68%) JavaScript
4 13 (20.63%) MATLAB
5 2 (3.17%) C#
5 2 (3.17%) Python
5 2 (3.17%) Rust
6 1 (1.59%) Ada
6 1 (1.59%) C
6 1 (1.59%) C++
Qualifications
1 31 (49.21%) BPSS Clearance
2 10 (15.87%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (39.68%) QA
System Software
1 25 (39.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (39.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (39.68%) Solace
2 8 (12.70%) Siemens
3 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle