Software Engineering Job Trends in Wellingborough

Software Engineering
Northamptonshire > Wellingborough

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wellingborough requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 -
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 7 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Wellingborough 9.46% 10.00% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 10.00% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £55,000
Northamptonshire median annual salary £55,000 £78,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.94% +57.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wellingborough

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 Wellingborough.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49 10 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wellingborough 66.22% 100.00% 86.21%
Number of salaries quoted 34 2 25
10th Percentile £38,250 £28,025 £23,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,063 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,250 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.81% +14.62% -
75th Percentile £58,438 £43,563 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £46,675 £71,000
Northamptonshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,683 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.63% +19.21% -27.27%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wellingborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wellingborough.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Wellingborough

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Wellingborough

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wellingborough citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wellingborough citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wellingborough 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 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) IT Technician
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Debt
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes