Developer Jobs in Belfast

Developer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Developer salary in Belfast is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 104 319 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 20.55% 42.70% 41.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.53% 45.12% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 76 254 91
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,188 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £71,250
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Belfast. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Belfast with a recognized job title 483 707 462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 94.65% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 245 399 254
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,725
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,276 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £60,188
90th Percentile £89,000 £67,750 £70,875
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +9.89% +10.30%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Belfast

Developer
Salary Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Belfast.

Salary trend for Developer in Belfast

Developer
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Belfast over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in Belfast

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Belfast region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 43 (41.35%) C#
2 36 (34.62%) .NET
3 29 (27.88%) AWS
4 26 (25.00%) SQL
5 22 (21.15%) Azure
6 20 (19.23%) Software Engineering
7 17 (16.35%) .NET Core
8 16 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
8 16 (15.38%) SQL Server
8 16 (15.38%) JavaScript
8 16 (15.38%) .NET Framework
9 15 (14.42%) Entity Framework
9 15 (14.42%) Microsoft
10 14 (13.46%) Oracle
10 14 (13.46%) Unit Testing
11 13 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (12.50%) Migration
11 13 (12.50%) Social Skills
11 13 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
12 12 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web API
12 12 (11.54%) Microservices
12 12 (11.54%) Secure Coding
12 12 (11.54%) Web Development
13 11 (10.58%) Data Migration
13 11 (10.58%) Oracle Database 11g
13 11 (10.58%) Artificial Intelligence
13 11 (10.58%) PL/SQL
13 11 (10.58%) SDLC

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 5 (4.81%) CMS
2 2 (1.92%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) Mendix
3 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.88%) AWS
2 22 (21.15%) Azure
3 9 (8.65%) SaaS
4 6 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.92%) CloudFront
6 2 (1.92%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.92%) Serverless
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.96%) GitHub
7 1 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.96%) PaaS
7 1 (0.96%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.96%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.96%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (10.58%) Oracle Database
3 11 (10.58%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.92%) Flink
6 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.96%) MySQL
6 1 (0.96%) Power BI
6 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Git
1 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) PHPUnit
2 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.73%) Music Industry
3 4 (3.85%) Finance
4 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.96%) Banking
5 1 (0.96%) Front Office
5 1 (0.96%) Law
5 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.96%) Police
5 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.96%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (34.62%) .NET
2 17 (16.35%) .NET Core
3 16 (15.38%) .NET Framework
4 15 (14.42%) Entity Framework
5 12 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web API
6 10 (9.62%) React
7 7 (6.73%) ASP.NET
8 6 (5.77%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.77%) CSS
8 6 (5.77%) Ruby on Rails
9 5 (4.81%) Blazor
9 5 (4.81%) HTML
10 4 (3.85%) jQuery
10 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 4 (3.85%) Web Services
11 3 (2.88%) Express.js
11 3 (2.88%) Laravel
11 3 (2.88%) Node.js
11 3 (2.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Social Network
2 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.96%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.92%) Unix
3 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (19.23%) Software Engineering
2 16 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
3 14 (13.46%) Unit Testing
4 13 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
4 13 (12.50%) Migration
5 12 (11.54%) Microservices
5 12 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
5 12 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (11.54%) Secure Coding
5 12 (11.54%) Web Development
6 11 (10.58%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (10.58%) Data Migration
6 11 (10.58%) DevOps
6 11 (10.58%) SDLC
7 10 (9.62%) Agile
8 9 (8.65%) Front End Development
9 8 (7.69%) Containerisation
10 7 (6.73%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.73%) MVC
10 7 (6.73%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 43 (41.35%) C#
2 26 (25.00%) SQL
3 16 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.58%) PL/SQL
5 9 (8.65%) Java
6 8 (7.69%) Ruby
7 3 (2.88%) PHP
7 3 (2.88%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.92%) Python
8 2 (1.92%) Scala
9 1 (0.96%) Go
9 1 (0.96%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.96%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.96%) Rust
9 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (8.65%) SC Cleared
1 9 (8.65%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.73%) Degree
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.92%) Terraform
2 1 (0.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.46%) Oracle
3 6 (5.77%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.96%) Sybase