Developer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Developer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Developer salary in Northern Ireland is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 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 144 344 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 20.72% 40.19% 35.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.69% 42.21% 37.40%
Number of salaries quoted 107 269 101
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,250 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £62,625 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +10.87%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 664 815 639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 95.21% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 324 452 334
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,875 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £44,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.73% +11.88%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £68,625 £67,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Northern Ireland

Developer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Developer in Northern Ireland

Developer
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in Northern Ireland

Developer
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 Developer within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 24 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
County Antrim -2 136 £55,000 +10.00% 23
County Tyrone - 3 £33,500 - 2
County Down -3 1 £45,000 -
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 59 (40.97%) C#
2 54 (37.50%) .NET
3 37 (25.69%) AWS
4 34 (23.61%) SQL
5 31 (21.53%) JavaScript
6 30 (20.83%) Azure
6 30 (20.83%) Social Skills
7 28 (19.44%) SQL Server
8 27 (18.75%) .NET Framework
9 26 (18.06%) CSS
9 26 (18.06%) Microsoft
9 26 (18.06%) .NET Core
9 26 (18.06%) Entity Framework
10 25 (17.36%) HTML
10 25 (17.36%) Web Development
11 23 (15.97%) Software Engineering
12 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (13.89%) jQuery
14 19 (13.19%) Actionable Insight
15 18 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
15 18 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
15 18 (12.50%) Front End Development
16 17 (11.81%) E-Commerce
17 16 (11.11%) React
18 15 (10.42%) Ruby
18 15 (10.42%) MVC
19 14 (9.72%) Agile
19 14 (9.72%) Oracle
19 14 (9.72%) Unit Testing
19 14 (9.72%) AngularJS

Developer Skill Set
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 9 (6.25%) CMS
2 4 (2.78%) WordPress
3 2 (1.39%) SAS
3 2 (1.39%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Mendix
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Adobe Illustrator
1 6 (4.17%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 37 (25.69%) AWS
2 30 (20.83%) Azure
3 9 (6.25%) SaaS
4 6 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.39%) CloudFront
6 2 (1.39%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.39%) Serverless
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.69%) GitHub
7 1 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.69%) PaaS
7 1 (0.69%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.69%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.69%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (7.64%) Oracle Database
3 11 (7.64%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.39%) Flink
5 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.69%) MySQL
5 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.69%) Power BI
5 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.39%) Git
2 2 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.69%) JIRA
3 1 (0.69%) PHPUnit
General
1 30 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.33%) Music Industry
3 7 (4.86%) Finance
4 6 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.17%) Retail
5 4 (2.78%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.69%) Banking
7 1 (0.69%) Front Office
7 1 (0.69%) Law
7 1 (0.69%) Marketing
7 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.69%) Police
7 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (37.50%) .NET
2 27 (18.75%) .NET Framework
3 26 (18.06%) .NET Core
3 26 (18.06%) CSS
3 26 (18.06%) Entity Framework
4 25 (17.36%) HTML
5 20 (13.89%) jQuery
6 18 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
7 16 (11.11%) React
8 14 (9.72%) AngularJS
9 13 (9.03%) ASP.NET
9 13 (9.03%) Ruby on Rails
10 12 (8.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 11 (7.64%) Web Services
12 10 (6.94%) Blazor
13 9 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (4.17%) WCF
15 5 (3.47%) ASP.NET MVC 5
15 5 (3.47%) HTML5
16 4 (2.78%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.25%) Social Network
2 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.39%) CMDB
3 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.78%) Linux
2 2 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.39%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (17.36%) Web Development
2 23 (15.97%) Software Engineering
3 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (13.19%) Actionable Insight
5 18 (12.50%) Front End Development
5 18 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
6 17 (11.81%) E-Commerce
7 15 (10.42%) MVC
8 14 (9.72%) Agile
8 14 (9.72%) Unit Testing
9 13 (9.03%) Migration
10 12 (8.33%) DevOps
10 12 (8.33%) Mentoring
10 12 (8.33%) Microservices
10 12 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (8.33%) Secure Coding
11 11 (7.64%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (7.64%) Containerisation
11 11 (7.64%) Data Migration
11 11 (7.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 59 (40.97%) C#
2 34 (23.61%) SQL
3 31 (21.53%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.42%) Ruby
5 11 (7.64%) PL/SQL
6 9 (6.25%) Java
7 7 (4.86%) PHP
8 5 (3.47%) C
9 3 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.39%) Python
10 2 (1.39%) Scala
11 1 (0.69%) Go
11 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.69%) Rust
11 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (6.94%) SC Cleared
1 10 (6.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.56%) Degree
3 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.39%) Terraform
2 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.72%) Oracle
3 6 (4.17%) Autodesk
4 3 (2.08%) Adobe
5 2 (1.39%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.69%) Sybase