Senior Developer Jobs in Belfast

Senior Developer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Senior Developer salary in Belfast is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 60 59
Rank change year-on-year +29 -1 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 29 34 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 5.70% 4.57% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.97% 4.82% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 6
10th Percentile £47,500 - £50,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £59,375 £62,750 £66,875
90th Percentile £70,500 £63,000 £69,375
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Belfast. 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 Belfast with a recognized job title 486 705 462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 94.76% 96.65%
Number of salaries quoted 249 401 251
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,276 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £69,800 £62,500 £60,750
90th Percentile £88,000 £70,000 £70,000
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +12.50%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Belfast

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Belfast

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Belfast over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Belfast

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 Belfast region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 17 (58.62%) SQL
1 17 (58.62%) AWS
2 15 (51.72%) Actionable Insight
3 11 (37.93%) Secure Coding
3 11 (37.93%) Unit Testing
3 11 (37.93%) C#
3 11 (37.93%) Oracle
4 10 (34.48%) PL/SQL
4 10 (34.48%) Migration
4 10 (34.48%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (34.48%) Artificial Intelligence
4 10 (34.48%) Oracle Database
4 10 (34.48%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (34.48%) Data Migration
4 10 (34.48%) Oracle Database 11g
5 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
5 9 (31.03%) Azure
6 8 (27.59%) Front End Development
7 7 (24.14%) .NET Core
7 7 (24.14%) .NET
7 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
7 7 (24.14%) React
7 7 (24.14%) DevOps
7 7 (24.14%) Music Industry
8 5 (17.24%) .NET Framework
8 5 (17.24%) Degree
8 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
8 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
8 5 (17.24%) Mentoring

Senior Developer Skill Set
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 1 (3.45%) CMS
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) Oracle Database
1 10 (34.48%) Oracle Database 11g
1 10 (34.48%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
3 5 (17.24%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Music Industry
3 1 (3.45%) Police
3 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) .NET
1 7 (24.14%) .NET Core
1 7 (24.14%) React
2 5 (17.24%) .NET Framework
2 5 (17.24%) Blazor
2 5 (17.24%) Entity Framework
3 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
3 3 (10.34%) Express.js
3 3 (10.34%) Node.js
4 2 (6.90%) Laravel
5 1 (3.45%) CSS
5 1 (3.45%) HTML
5 1 (3.45%) RESTful
5 1 (3.45%) Spring
5 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Actionable Insight
2 11 (37.93%) Secure Coding
2 11 (37.93%) Unit Testing
3 10 (34.48%) Artificial Intelligence
3 10 (34.48%) Data Migration
3 10 (34.48%) Migration
3 10 (34.48%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (27.59%) Front End Development
6 7 (24.14%) DevOps
7 5 (17.24%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
8 4 (13.79%) Agile
9 2 (6.90%) Customer Requirements
9 2 (6.90%) Observability
9 2 (6.90%) Open Source
10 1 (3.45%) Clean Code
10 1 (3.45%) Full Stack Development
10 1 (3.45%) Impact Analysis
10 1 (3.45%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) SQL
2 11 (37.93%) C#
3 10 (34.48%) PL/SQL
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) PHP
5 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
1 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft