Software Engineering Jobs in Belfast

Software Engineering
County Antrim > Belfast

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 95 153 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 18.66% 20.51% 19.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.97% 20.99% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 33 83 37
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,500 £40,350
25th Percentile £53,750 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.37% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £65,000 £69,500
County Antrim median annual salary £60,000 £48,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 453 729 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 89.00% 97.72% 97.06%
Number of salaries quoted 230 396 263
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,000 £59,375
90th Percentile £87,750 £69,500 £71,000
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +12.50%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Belfast

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Belfast

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Belfast over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Belfast

Software Engineering
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 21 (22.11%) ArcGIS
1 21 (22.11%) GeoServer
2 3 (3.16%) JBoss
2 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 42 (44.21%) AWS
2 29 (30.53%) Azure
3 10 (10.53%) Serverless
4 6 (6.32%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.26%) SaaS
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.16%) CloudFront
7 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.05%) GitHub
8 1 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.89%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.32%) HTTP
2 6 (6.32%) MQTT
2 6 (6.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.26%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (22.11%) GIS
2 21 (22.11%) QGIS
3 10 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.21%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.16%) Flink
6 3 (3.16%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.05%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.26%) Git
3 3 (3.16%) IntelliJ
3 3 (3.16%) JDeveloper
4 2 (2.11%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.11%) VectorCAST
5 1 (1.05%) GitLab
5 1 (1.05%) PHPUnit
5 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (17.89%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.32%) Electronics
4 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.11%) Avionics
5 2 (2.11%) Finance
5 2 (2.11%) Military
5 2 (2.11%) Retail
6 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 63 (66.32%) Software Engineer
2 34 (35.79%) Senior
3 32 (33.68%) Senior Software Engineer
4 20 (21.05%) Developer
5 12 (12.63%) Embedded Engineer
5 12 (12.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) Software Developer
7 6 (6.32%) Architect
7 6 (6.32%) Software Architect
8 5 (5.26%) ERP Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Java Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Ruby Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 2 (2.11%) Java Developer
11 2 (2.11%) Lead
11 2 (2.11%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (27.37%) React
2 25 (26.32%) .NET
3 21 (22.11%) Leaflet
3 21 (22.11%) OpenLayers
3 21 (22.11%) PostGIS
3 21 (22.11%) Web Services
4 18 (18.95%) .NET Core
5 17 (17.89%) CSS
6 15 (15.79%) Node.js
6 15 (15.79%) REST
7 9 (9.47%) AngularJS
7 9 (9.47%) RESTful
7 9 (9.47%) SOAP
8 7 (7.37%) Django
8 7 (7.37%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (7.37%) Spring
9 6 (6.32%) Kafka
10 5 (5.26%) FFmpeg
10 5 (5.26%) GStreamer
10 5 (5.26%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.58%) Video\Live Streaming
2 10 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (6.32%) IoT
4 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.89%) Linux
2 11 (11.58%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (4.21%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.16%) Unix
5 2 (2.11%) Solaris
6 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.95%) Agile
2 32 (33.68%) Actionable Insight
3 28 (29.47%) Web Development
4 26 (27.37%) DevOps
5 18 (18.95%) Analytics
6 17 (17.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 17 (17.89%) Computer Science
6 17 (17.89%) Open Source
7 16 (16.84%) Microservices
8 15 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (14.74%) Containerisation
10 11 (11.58%) Asynchronous Programming
10 11 (11.58%) Computer Vision
10 11 (11.58%) Deep Learning
10 11 (11.58%) Multithreading
10 11 (11.58%) Threat Analysis
11 10 (10.53%) Video Analytics
12 9 (9.47%) Customer Experience
12 9 (9.47%) Digital Customer Experience
13 8 (8.42%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 48 (50.53%) Python
2 25 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 21 (22.11%) C#
4 19 (20.00%) Java
5 15 (15.79%) Bash
6 13 (13.68%) SQL
7 9 (9.47%) Perl
7 9 (9.47%) Ruby
8 8 (8.42%) C
9 5 (5.26%) Go
10 2 (2.11%) Ada
10 2 (2.11%) Ada 83
11 1 (1.05%) C++
11 1 (1.05%) PHP
11 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.05%) Rust
11 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (29.47%) SC Cleared
1 28 (29.47%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.89%) Degree
3 11 (11.58%) Master's Degree
3 11 (11.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.05%) QA
2 6 (6.32%) JTAG
3 2 (2.11%) DO-178B
System Software
1 11 (11.58%) Firmware
2 7 (7.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.21%) Terraform
3 1 (1.05%) Ansible
3 1 (1.05%) Grafana
3 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (22.11%) ESRI
2 9 (9.47%) Guidewire
3 6 (6.32%) Google
4 5 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.16%) Oracle