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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 90 152 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 17.75% 20.60% 19.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.09% 21.14% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 33 83 39
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,500 £41,300
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 £58,750
90th Percentile £97,000 £65,000 £64,500
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 448 719 456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 88.36% 97.43% 97.02%
Number of salaries quoted 227 392 262
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,325 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £59,688
90th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £71,125
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% +9.29% +14.38%

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 10 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 (23.33%) ArcGIS
1 21 (23.33%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.11%) JBoss
2 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 42 (46.67%) AWS
2 29 (32.22%) Azure
3 7 (7.78%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (7.78%) Serverless
4 5 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (5.56%) SaaS
5 2 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.22%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.11%) GitHub
6 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (7.78%) HTTP
2 7 (7.78%) MQTT
3 6 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.56%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (23.33%) GIS
2 21 (23.33%) QGIS
3 10 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.78%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.44%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.33%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.22%) Flink
8 1 (1.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.33%) Git
2 3 (3.33%) JDeveloper
3 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.22%) VectorCAST
4 1 (1.11%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.11%) PHPUnit
General
1 17 (18.89%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.67%) Electronics
4 2 (2.22%) Avionics
4 2 (2.22%) Finance
4 2 (2.22%) Military
4 2 (2.22%) Retail
5 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 60 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 32 (35.56%) Senior
3 30 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 19 (21.11%) Developer
5 12 (13.33%) Embedded Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Software Developer
7 7 (7.78%) Architect
7 7 (7.78%) Software Architect
8 5 (5.56%) ERP Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Ruby Engineer
11 2 (2.22%) Java Developer
11 2 (2.22%) Ruby on Rails Developer
12 1 (1.11%) Java Engineer
12 1 (1.11%) Principal Engineer
12 1 (1.11%) Python Software Engineer
12 1 (1.11%) Senior Java Engineer
12 1 (1.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.78%) .NET
2 24 (26.67%) React
3 21 (23.33%) Leaflet
3 21 (23.33%) OpenLayers
3 21 (23.33%) PostGIS
4 20 (22.22%) Web Services
5 18 (20.00%) .NET Core
6 17 (18.89%) CSS
7 16 (17.78%) Node.js
8 13 (14.44%) REST
9 8 (8.89%) AngularJS
9 8 (8.89%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (8.89%) RESTful
10 7 (7.78%) Kafka
10 7 (7.78%) SOAP
11 6 (6.67%) Django
12 5 (5.56%) FFmpeg
12 5 (5.56%) GStreamer
12 5 (5.56%) OpenCV
12 5 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Video\Live Streaming
2 10 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.78%) IoT
4 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.11%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.67%) Linux
2 11 (12.22%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (4.44%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.22%) Solaris
4 2 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.78%) Agile
2 28 (31.11%) Web Development
3 26 (28.89%) Actionable Insight
4 25 (27.78%) DevOps
5 18 (20.00%) Analytics
5 18 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 18 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 16 (17.78%) Open Source
7 14 (15.56%) Microservices
8 12 (13.33%) Computer Vision
8 12 (13.33%) Deep Learning
8 12 (13.33%) Threat Analysis
9 11 (12.22%) Asynchronous Programming
9 11 (12.22%) Containerisation
9 11 (12.22%) Multithreading
9 11 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (11.11%) Video Analytics
11 9 (10.00%) Customer Experience
11 9 (10.00%) Digital Customer Experience
12 8 (8.89%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 46 (51.11%) Python
2 25 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 19 (21.11%) C#
4 15 (16.67%) Java
5 14 (15.56%) Bash
5 14 (15.56%) SQL
6 9 (10.00%) Perl
7 8 (8.89%) C
8 7 (7.78%) Ruby
9 4 (4.44%) Go
10 2 (2.22%) Ada
10 2 (2.22%) Ada 83
11 1 (1.11%) C++
11 1 (1.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 18 (20.00%) Degree
4 12 (13.33%) Master's Degree
4 12 (13.33%) PhD
5 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (23.33%) QA
2 6 (6.67%) JTAG
3 2 (2.22%) DO-178B
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) Firmware
2 6 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (23.33%) ESRI
2 9 (10.00%) Guidewire
3 7 (7.78%) Google
4 5 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.33%) Oracle