Amazon invests more than £1 billion in Northamptonshire, creating 4,000 jobs

Key takeaways

Amazon is investing more than £1 billion in Northamptonshire and expanding its London campus.
In the past year, Amazon has delivered more than 1.6 billion items same day or next day, launched drone deliveries, and started rolling out the largest electric truck fleet in Amazon's global network.
The developments come one year after Amazon announced plans to invest £40 billion in the UK from 2025 to 2027 — spanning new fulfilment centres, a tech HQ in Swansea, and more.

Amazon has opened a new fulfilment centre in Northampton and announced plans for a second major site in nearby Kettering, taking its investment in a single county to more than £1 billion and creating more than 4,000 jobs.

The Kettering site will be the UK's largest cross-dock facility, sorting and routing goods across the country. The Northampton centre is one of the most advanced logistics operations in the UK, with thousands of robots working alongside employees across three floors.

They form part of a year of significant investment by Amazon across the UK and come after the company announced its planned investment of £40 billion in the UK last year — the largest investment in the company's history outside the US, with more than £15 billion already delivered.

A year ago we said we planned to invest £40 billion in the UK. Today you can see what that means; from 4,000 jobs in Northamptonshire and 2,000 in Hull, to drone deliveries from Darlington and a new tech HQ in Swansea. We said we'd deliver and we have. And we're only a year in.

John Boumphrey

Amazon UK country manager

Major sites in Northamptonshire

Amazon is investing more than £1 billion across two major sites in Northamptonshire:

Kettering: A £500 million major operational facility opening this autumn. The 900,000-square-foot site will process around 20 million items each week, creating more than 2,000 permanent jobs and hundreds of seasonal roles. Recruitment is under way for engineers, HR and IT professionals, finance specialists, and operations teams.
Northampton: A new £500 million fulfilment centre where more than 2,000 jobs are being created. One of the most advanced logistics operations in the UK, the Northampton site stores tens of millions of items across three floors of robotics, where thousands of Hercules robots retrieve products and bring them directly to employees.

Pay for frontline roles starts at almost £30,000 per year, with private medical insurance, subsidised meals, an employee discount, and funded career development from day one.

"As someone from Northampton, I'm proud to see this county become one of the most important regions in our UK network," said Gareth Davies, Amazon regional director. "Our new fulfilment centre is up and running with cutting-edge robotics, a modern working environment, and genuine career development opportunities. With another £500 million facility on the horizon, this is an incredibly exciting time for our teams and the wider community."

Pat McFadden, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, said: "This government’s mission is to get Britain working, and we are fully behind all businesses that share our ambition to create jobs in every part of the country. Amazon’s investment will help people move from welfare into work, with rewarding careers and room to progress. It reflects the same ambition as our Youth Guarantee, supporting young people across the country to earn or learn. This will help us deliver our Get Britain Working programme, and drive our economy forward, creating opportunity for everyone, everywhere.”

Amazon expands its London campus in Shoreditch

Amazon has also expanded its London headquarters in Shoreditch, Hackney, with the opening of a third building. The campus now accommodates around 6,000 employees working on products and technology for Amazon, with more than 140 collaboration spaces designed for teams to come together.

The new building sits near the site of Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre. During construction of the building, archaeologists uncovered artefacts from the theatre's history, and that heritage has been woven into the office’s design — from patterned glazing featuring flora and fauna drawn from Shakespeare's plays to bird-shaped light fittings inspired by a whistle found during the dig.

Investing in people and communities

Amazon employs around 75,000 permanent people across more than 100 UK sites. Almost half of its entry-level hires were previously unemployed or came directly from education — starting on a minimum of £29,744 per year, and, in some locations, £31,824, with private medical insurance from day one and no zero-hours contracts. Over the past year, minimum starting pay has risen by up to 5.9% and has increased by 43% since 2022.

Amazon recently announced a $1 billion global investment in its Career Choice programme — part of its US$2.5 billion Future Ready 2030 commitment — reshaping the programme to focus on the careers where growth is strongest: technology, logistics, and mechanical and industrial systems. This includes doubling UK participation in Career Choice by 2030.

Amazon is also the UK's largest private sector provider of supported internships for young people aged 18 to 24 with learning disabilities and autism. Amazon recently announced plans to quadruple the programme by 2030, supporting more than a thousand young people into employment.

A year of investment across the UK

Amazon EHGV driving across the Humber Bridge

The Northamptonshire and London developments are part of a year of significant investment by Amazon across the UK. Since June 2025, Amazon has delivered on its commitment across speed, infrastructure, and people. Highlights include:

Speed and convenience

Delivered more than 1.6 billion items same day or next day to UK customers - the fastest speeds ever
Launched Amazon Now, an ultra-fast delivery service offering thousands of groceries and household essentials in around 30 minutes or less, piloting in London with plans to expand to Manchester and Birmingham later this year
Customers in parts of London can now order fresh groceries with their Same-Day Delivery orders, alongside everything else they shop for on Amazon
Started drone deliveries to customers from Amazon’s Darlington fulfilment centre with Prime Air

Infrastructure and jobs

Opened a new fulfilment centre in Hull creating 2,000 jobs and announced a new distribution centre in Peterborough launching this autumn, that will replenish fulfilment centres across the UK and create more than 1,400 jobs
Continued investment in UK data centre infrastructure as part of an £8 billion commitment between 2024 and 2028 - supporting the UK's ambition to increase AI compute capacity
Opened a new global tech headquarters in Swansea for Amazon-owned Veeqo, with more than 200 employees and more than £150 million committed to the site through to 2032
Multiple TV series and film productions across the UK filmed at our studio space in Bray and Shepperton as well as across Scotland, Cardiff, Bristol, and other locations. Invested further in our Prime Video Pathway skills and training programme, supporting many more trainees and apprentices across the TV industry both at entry and mid-level, with plans in consultation to renovate the Bray Studios site in Berkshire
Started rollout of more than 160 electric heavy goods vehicles on UK roads - the largest number of electric trucks in Amazon's global fleet
Began construction on a new delivery station in Stockton-on-Tees - Amazon's first building in the UK to pursue zero carbon certification - featuring cement-free paving, AI-powered carbon tracking, and mass timber construction. The £40 million site opens this autumn, creating around 100 jobs

Skills and community

Across Amazon's UK employability programmes over the past two years, more than 85% of participants progress into employment or education, generating £4 in social value for every £1 invested.
As principal partner of The Multibank, Amazon has helped redistribute more than 16 million products through more than 2 million orders to families in need in the last four years.

To find out more about a career with Amazon, visit www.jobsatamazon.co.uk

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