Senior Developer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Senior Developer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Senior Developer salary in Northern Ireland is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 66 76
Rank change year-on-year +30 +10 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 39 36 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.62% 4.22% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.88% 4.44% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 24 7 6
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,750 £66,875
90th Percentile £60,000 £64,300 £69,375
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%

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 663 810 636
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.53% 94.96% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 321 449 344
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £44,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.73% +11.88%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Northern Ireland

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Northern Ireland

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Northern Ireland

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +21 34 £55,000 -8.33% 9
County Tyrone - 1 - - 2
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 21 (53.85%) AWS
2 20 (51.28%) SQL
3 18 (46.15%) C#
4 16 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
4 16 (41.03%) Azure
5 14 (35.90%) Front End Development
5 14 (35.90%) Actionable Insight
5 14 (35.90%) .NET
6 13 (33.33%) SQL Server
7 12 (30.77%) Music Industry
7 12 (30.77%) .NET Core
7 12 (30.77%) React
8 11 (28.21%) Entity Framework
8 11 (28.21%) .NET Framework
9 10 (25.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (25.64%) Mentoring
9 10 (25.64%) End-to-End Testing
9 10 (25.64%) Blazor
10 9 (23.08%) Secure Coding
10 9 (23.08%) Unit Testing
10 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
10 9 (23.08%) Oracle
11 8 (20.51%) Migration
11 8 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (20.51%) PL/SQL
11 8 (20.51%) Data Migration
11 8 (20.51%) Oracle Database 11g
11 8 (20.51%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (20.51%) Oracle Database

Senior 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 2 (5.13%) CMS
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) AWS
2 16 (41.03%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) SaaS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 10 (25.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (20.51%) Oracle Database
3 8 (20.51%) Oracle Database 11g
3 8 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Music Industry
3 4 (10.26%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.56%) Police
4 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.90%) .NET
2 12 (30.77%) .NET Core
2 12 (30.77%) React
3 11 (28.21%) .NET Framework
3 11 (28.21%) Entity Framework
4 10 (25.64%) Blazor
5 7 (17.95%) CSS
5 7 (17.95%) HTML
6 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
7 4 (10.26%) Express.js
7 4 (10.26%) Node.js
7 4 (10.26%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (5.13%) jQuery
8 2 (5.13%) Laravel
8 2 (5.13%) Web Services
9 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (2.56%) HTML5
9 1 (2.56%) JSP
9 1 (2.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.56%) Media Streaming
1 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (35.90%) Actionable Insight
2 14 (35.90%) Front End Development
3 10 (25.64%) End-to-End Testing
3 10 (25.64%) Mentoring
4 9 (23.08%) Secure Coding
4 9 (23.08%) Unit Testing
5 8 (20.51%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (20.51%) Data Migration
5 8 (20.51%) DevOps
5 8 (20.51%) Migration
5 8 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (12.82%) Agile
6 5 (12.82%) Full Stack Development
7 3 (7.69%) MVC
7 3 (7.69%) Open Source
8 2 (5.13%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (5.13%) Observability
9 1 (2.56%) Clean Code
9 1 (2.56%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) SQL
2 18 (46.15%) C#
3 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 8 (20.51%) PL/SQL
5 5 (12.82%) C
6 4 (10.26%) Ruby
7 2 (5.13%) Java
7 2 (5.13%) PHP
7 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
1 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Oracle
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft