Degree Jobs in Northern Ireland

Academic Degree
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 17 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -14
Permanent jobs citing Degree 109 138 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.69% 15.88% 11.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.67% 50.55% 35.34%
Number of salaries quoted 37 41 45
10th Percentile £22,000 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £65,250 £73,750 £100,500
UK median annual salary £52,084 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.19% +9.09% +0.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 244 273 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 32.88% 31.42% 33.72%
Number of salaries quoted 75 73 88
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,850 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,748 £32,466 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.10% +30.00%
75th Percentile £62,200 £60,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £70,250 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +9.09% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Northern Ireland

Degree
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Degree in Northern Ireland

Degree
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in Northern Ireland

Degree
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
County Antrim +4 79 £46,000 +1.10% 46
County Armagh - 12 £50,000 - 3
County Down +6 9 £37,500 - 2
County Londonderry +3 7 - -
County Tyrone - 2 £45,000 - 1
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 7 (6.42%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.83%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (16.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (15.60%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (14.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (6.42%) InfoPath
5 6 (5.50%) UserZoom
6 5 (4.59%) MS Visio
7 3 (2.75%) Adobe XD
7 3 (2.75%) InVision
7 3 (2.75%) Sketch
8 1 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) SAP MM
1 3 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.43%) AWS
2 18 (16.51%) Azure
3 13 (11.93%) Cloud Computing
4 10 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.42%) OneDrive
6 5 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.75%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.75%) Figma
7 3 (2.75%) GCP
7 3 (2.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (2.75%) Route 53
7 3 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.83%) Miro
8 2 (1.83%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.18%) TCP/IP
2 17 (15.60%) HTTP
3 10 (9.17%) MQTT
4 8 (7.34%) Firewall
5 7 (6.42%) FTP
6 6 (5.50%) Internet
6 6 (5.50%) Wireshark
7 5 (4.59%) LAN
8 3 (2.75%) Network Security
8 3 (2.75%) VPN
8 3 (2.75%) WAN
8 3 (2.75%) Wireless
9 2 (1.83%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.83%) WLAN
10 1 (0.92%) DNS
10 1 (0.92%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.42%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.92%) MySQL
4 1 (0.92%) Power BI
4 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.75%) GCC
3 2 (1.83%) JIRA
General
1 58 (53.21%) Social Skills
2 30 (27.52%) Manufacturing
3 21 (19.27%) Pharmaceutical
4 18 (16.51%) Finance
5 17 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (15.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (13.76%) Retail
7 12 (11.01%) Telecoms
8 10 (9.17%) Electronics
9 9 (8.26%) Law
10 8 (7.34%) Public Sector
11 7 (6.42%) Banking
11 7 (6.42%) Legal
12 5 (4.59%) Marketing
13 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.92%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (18.35%) Senior
2 13 (11.93%) Architect
3 11 (10.09%) Lead
3 11 (10.09%) Software Engineer
4 10 (9.17%) Software Architect
5 9 (8.26%) Developer
6 7 (6.42%) Consultant
6 7 (6.42%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) Project Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) QA Leader
7 6 (5.50%) Embedded Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Analyst
8 5 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) QA Specialist
8 5 (4.59%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Software Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.35%) Node.js
2 15 (13.76%) Web Services
3 14 (12.84%) AngularJS
4 10 (9.17%) HTML
4 10 (9.17%) Kafka
4 10 (9.17%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (9.17%) RESTful
5 7 (6.42%) COM
5 7 (6.42%) HTML5
6 5 (4.59%) FFmpeg
6 5 (4.59%) GStreamer
6 5 (4.59%) OpenCV
6 5 (4.59%) REST
7 4 (3.67%) Express.js
8 3 (2.75%) CSS
9 2 (1.83%) React
10 1 (0.92%) EDI
10 1 (0.92%) IDoc
10 1 (0.92%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Video\Live Streaming
2 10 (9.17%) IoT
3 5 (4.59%) FMCG
3 5 (4.59%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.92%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.68%) Linux
2 14 (12.84%) Windows
3 11 (10.09%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (4.59%) Unix
5 3 (2.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (42.20%) Computer Science
1 46 (42.20%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (19.27%) Process Improvement
2 21 (19.27%) Software Engineering
3 19 (17.43%) Mentoring
4 17 (15.60%) Threat Analysis
5 16 (14.68%) Agile
5 16 (14.68%) Analytics
5 16 (14.68%) Artificial Intelligence
5 16 (14.68%) OO
5 16 (14.68%) OOP
6 15 (13.76%) Commercialisation
6 15 (13.76%) Computer Vision
6 15 (13.76%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (13.76%) Deep Learning
6 15 (13.76%) Root Cause Analysis
7 14 (12.84%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (12.84%) Open Source
8 13 (11.93%) Microservices
8 13 (11.93%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.85%) Python
2 14 (12.84%) Bash
2 14 (12.84%) SQL
3 7 (6.42%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.42%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.50%) C
4 6 (5.50%) Perl
5 5 (4.59%) C++
6 4 (3.67%) Bicep
6 4 (3.67%) C#
6 4 (3.67%) R
7 2 (1.83%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.92%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 25 (22.94%) Master's Degree
2 19 (17.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (13.76%) PhD
4 12 (11.01%) Security Cleared
5 10 (9.17%) SC Cleared
6 7 (6.42%) AWS Certification
6 7 (6.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.83%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.83%) MBA
10 1 (0.92%) CCNA
10 1 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.92%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (32.11%) QA
2 6 (5.50%) JTAG
3 5 (4.59%) GMP
4 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.75%) WCAG
5 1 (0.92%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (10.09%) Firmware
2 8 (7.34%) Docker
3 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.42%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (29.36%) Google
2 19 (17.43%) Microsoft
3 14 (12.84%) SAP
4 6 (5.50%) Qualtrics
5 4 (3.67%) VMware
6 3 (2.75%) Ciena
7 2 (1.83%) CA
7 2 (1.83%) Cisco
7 2 (1.83%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.83%) Meraki
7 2 (1.83%) Thales
8 1 (0.92%) Datto
8 1 (0.92%) Kaseya
8 1 (0.92%) Minitab
8 1 (0.92%) Oracle