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Software developer jobs in Newport

The 2021 census counted 1,479 residents working as information technology professionals living in Newport.

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Published figures for Newport

What the official data says about Newport

At the 2021 census, 1,479 people living in Newport were in work as information technology professionals. It was 2.03% of everyone in work in the area. That count put Newport 3rd of 22 areas in Wales, where the middle area recorded 758. Swansea was the next area up.

Full-time pay across all jobs in Newport, every occupation counted together, had a median of £36,939. That is 6th of 22 in Wales, against a regional middle of £35,578. Work of this kind pays £48,344 across the region, which is £11,405 more than the typical Newport job, about 31% above it.

Where people live and where the technology work is are not the same map: Newport had 1,790 employee jobs in computer programming, consultancy and information services in 2024, out of 77,000 employee jobs in the area altogether. At 2.32% of every job here, that ranks 2nd of 22 in Wales, where the middle area sits at 1%.

Residents in work as IT professionals (SOC 213): 1,479
Median full-time pay for IT professionals across Wales: £48,344
Employee jobs in the area in computer programming, consultancy and information services: 1,790
Computer programming, consultancy and information services, share of all employee jobs in the area: 2.32%
Median full-time pay across all jobs in the area: £36,939
Residents of the area in work at the census: 72,786
Employee jobs in the area, all industries: 77,000

Reporting period: ONS Census, 2021. ONS Business Register and Employment Survey, 2024. ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings by occupation, 2025 provisional. ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025.

Census counts are people who LIVED in Newport and were in work in that occupation in March 2021. They are not jobs located in the area, and they are not adverts. They are also published for a group of related occupations (minor group 213) rather than for a single job title, because that is the finest detail the census publishes at local authority level. That group covers software developers, IT managers, architects, analysts, cyber security specialists and IT project managers.

Job counts are employee jobs that exist in Newport, counted once a year by a survey of businesses. They are not adverts, and they are not a measure of how many roles are open. They count a different population from the census figures above, so the two are never divided by one another.

The pay figure for this occupation covers Wales, not Newport on its own. ONS does not publish pay by occupation at local authority level at all, so every area in the region shares this number and no narrower published figure exists.

The area pay figure covers every occupation in Newport together. It is the only pay figure published for the area itself, and it is not a pay figure for this role.

Medians, not averages. Half the jobs counted paid less than the figure shown. What any individual advert pays is on the advert.

The software developer role

Writing software that other people depend on, and staying responsible for it once it is running. Most of the job is reading existing code, understanding why it is the way it is, and changing it without breaking anything.

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Software developer jobs in Newport: common questions

How many people do this kind of work in Newport?

1,479 residents of Newport were in work as IT professionals at the 2021 census, which was 2.03% of everyone in work there. That counts people who live in the area, whether or not they work there, and it is not a count of current vacancies.

What does this work pay around Newport?

Across Wales, £48,344 is the median for IT professionals. In Newport itself the median across all occupations together is £36,939. ONS publishes pay by occupation for regions rather than for single councils, so the first figure covers the whole region. What any particular advert pays is on the advert.

Is there much of this work based in Newport?

1,790 of the 77,000 employee jobs in Newport are in the industries this role sits in, on the 2024 business survey. That counts jobs located in the area rather than people living there, and it is a count of jobs that exist, not of jobs being advertised.

Where these figures come from

Local occupation figures: ONS Census 2021, table TS064, occupation by minor group, accessed via NOMIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page
Industry job counts: ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2024, accessed via NOMIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page
Pay by occupation: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 provisional, Table 14 (United Kingdom, four-digit SOC 2020) and Table 15 (work region, three-digit SOC 2020). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page
Local pay figures: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025, workplace analysis, accessed via NOMIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Read the licence.

Figures are republished as the publisher released them for Newport. Where a figure is blank, the publisher withheld it to protect a small sample. Nothing on this page is estimated, modelled or filled in from a national average.