Software Developer Jobs in County Antrim

Software Developer
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Software Developer salary in County Antrim is £51,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 14 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 58 134 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 9.21% 17.29% 9.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.63% 18.18% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 56 126 19
10th Percentile £31,250 - £28,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £28,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £42,500 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +18.06% -15.29%
75th Percentile £58,125 £55,000 £53,875
90th Percentile £67,500 £61,875 £60,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £50,500 £42,500 £36,750
% change year-on-year +18.82% +15.65% -13.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in County Antrim. 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 County Antrim with a recognized job title 602 737 522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.56% 95.10% 96.49%
Number of salaries quoted 292 420 285
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £68,775 £70,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £43,250
% change year-on-year +10.00% +15.61% +1.76%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in County Antrim

Software Developer
Salary Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in County Antrim.

Salary trend for Software Developer in County Antrim

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in County Antrim

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in County Antrim over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in County Antrim

Software Developer
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Belfast -7 41 £55,000 +29.41% 5
Software Developer
Northern Ireland

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 17 April 2024, Software 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 County Antrim region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 48 (82.76%) C#
2 36 (62.07%) .NET
3 25 (43.10%) SQL Server
4 21 (36.21%) AWS
5 18 (31.03%) .NET Framework
6 17 (29.31%) Entity Framework
6 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
7 16 (27.59%) SQL
7 16 (27.59%) Azure
8 15 (25.86%) React
9 14 (24.14%) .NET Core
9 14 (24.14%) Web Development
10 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (20.69%) Music Industry
11 12 (20.69%) Software Engineering
12 11 (18.97%) jQuery
12 11 (18.97%) MVC
12 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
12 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
12 11 (18.97%) Front End Development
12 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
12 11 (18.97%) Containerisation
13 10 (17.24%) End-to-End Testing
13 10 (17.24%) Blazor
13 10 (17.24%) ASP.NET
13 10 (17.24%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (15.52%) ASP.NET Web API
15 8 (13.79%) CSS
16 7 (12.07%) Web Services
16 7 (12.07%) HTML

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 1 (1.72%) Mendix
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.21%) AWS
2 16 (27.59%) Azure
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.72%) CloudFront
3 1 (1.72%) GitHub
3 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.72%) PaaS
3 1 (1.72%) SaaS
3 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (43.10%) SQL Server
2 10 (17.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.72%) Flink
3 1 (1.72%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.72%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.72%) PHPUnit
General
1 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Music Industry
3 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.72%) Banking
3 1 (1.72%) Finance
3 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (62.07%) .NET
2 18 (31.03%) .NET Framework
3 17 (29.31%) Entity Framework
4 15 (25.86%) React
5 14 (24.14%) .NET Core
6 11 (18.97%) jQuery
7 10 (17.24%) ASP.NET
7 10 (17.24%) Blazor
8 9 (15.52%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (13.79%) CSS
10 7 (12.07%) HTML
10 7 (12.07%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 7 (12.07%) Web Services
11 6 (10.34%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (10.34%) WCF
12 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
12 5 (8.62%) ASP.NET MVC 5
12 5 (8.62%) HTML5
13 2 (3.45%) REST
14 1 (1.72%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
1 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) Web Development
2 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (20.69%) Software Engineering
4 11 (18.97%) Containerisation
4 11 (18.97%) Front End Development
4 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
4 11 (18.97%) MVC
5 10 (17.24%) End-to-End Testing
6 6 (10.34%) Information Management
6 6 (10.34%) SDLC
7 5 (8.62%) DevOps
7 5 (8.62%) Responsive Web Design
7 5 (8.62%) TDD
8 4 (6.90%) Observability
8 4 (6.90%) SOLID
8 4 (6.90%) Statistics
9 3 (5.17%) Agile
10 2 (3.45%) CI/CD
10 2 (3.45%) CRM
10 2 (3.45%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 48 (82.76%) C#
2 16 (27.59%) SQL
3 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.62%) C
5 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.72%) Java
6 1 (1.72%) PHP
6 1 (1.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (6.90%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Autodesk