Senior Software Developer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Senior Software Developer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Senior Software 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 63 97 80
Rank change year-on-year +34 -17 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 15 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.16% 0.58% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.26% 0.61% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15 2 2
10th Percentile £47,500 - -
25th Percentile £51,625 £59,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +10.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £63,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.29% - +27.27%

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%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in Northern Ireland

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in Northern Ireland

Senior Software 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 Software 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 +35 15 £55,000 -9.84% 3
Senior Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 12 (80.00%) Music Industry
2 12 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (80.00%) React
3 11 (73.33%) .NET
3 11 (73.33%) Entity Framework
3 11 (73.33%) .NET Framework
3 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (66.67%) Blazor
4 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
4 10 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 10 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 10 (66.67%) SQL
4 10 (66.67%) Azure
4 10 (66.67%) AWS
4 10 (66.67%) Front End Development
4 10 (66.67%) .NET Core
4 10 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (33.33%) C
6 2 (13.33%) Degree
6 2 (13.33%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (13.33%) Observability
7 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (6.67%) Business Process Modelling
7 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (6.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 1 (6.67%) jQuery
7 1 (6.67%) MVC
7 1 (6.67%) HTML

Senior Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 12 (80.00%) Music Industry
2 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) React
2 11 (73.33%) .NET
2 11 (73.33%) .NET Framework
2 11 (73.33%) Entity Framework
3 10 (66.67%) .NET Core
3 10 (66.67%) Blazor
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) jQuery
4 1 (6.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 10 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 10 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Observability
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.67%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (6.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 10 (66.67%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) C
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree