Senior Jobs in Belfast

Senior
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Senior salary in Belfast is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 29 103 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 15.93% 18.73% 11.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.90% 19.58% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4 38 19
10th Percentile £60,250 £27,500 £33,300
25th Percentile £68,125 £46,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £90,625 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £66,750
County Antrim median annual salary £80,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +45.45% +15.79% -13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 162 526 711
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.01% 95.64% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 39 273 402
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £39,390 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £73,379 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £89,500 £72,500
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Belfast

Senior
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Senior in Belfast

Senior
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Belfast over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Belfast

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 9 (31.03%) Risk Management
1 9 (31.03%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (31.03%) Coaching
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Analytics
2 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (24.14%) Degree
4 5 (17.24%) AWS
4 5 (17.24%) DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) Finance
4 5 (17.24%) SQL
4 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
5 4 (13.79%) Salesforce
5 4 (13.79%) Middleware
5 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
5 4 (13.79%) SAS
5 4 (13.79%) Python
5 4 (13.79%) CRM
5 4 (13.79%) Wholesale Banking
5 4 (13.79%) Banking
5 4 (13.79%) Retail
5 4 (13.79%) Cryptography
5 4 (13.79%) GCP
5 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
5 4 (13.79%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (13.79%) Privileged Access Management
5 4 (13.79%) Mathematical Modelling
5 4 (13.79%) PaaS
5 4 (13.79%) Statistical Modelling

Senior 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 4 (13.79%) SAS
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.45%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) GCP
2 4 (13.79%) IaaS
2 4 (13.79%) PaaS
3 3 (10.34%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 3 (10.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.45%) OCI
5 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) IPsec
1 1 (3.45%) Network Security
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Banking
4 4 (13.79%) Retail
4 4 (13.79%) Wholesale Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Marketing
5 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.45%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Middleware
2 3 (10.34%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Coaching
1 9 (31.03%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (31.03%) Risk Management
2 8 (27.59%) Analytics
2 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (17.24%) DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
4 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
4 4 (13.79%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (13.79%) CRM
4 4 (13.79%) Cryptography
4 4 (13.79%) Mathematical Modelling
4 4 (13.79%) Mathematics
4 4 (13.79%) Privileged Access Management
4 4 (13.79%) Statistical Modelling
5 3 (10.34%) Data Science
5 3 (10.34%) Project Management
5 3 (10.34%) Sociotechnical
5 3 (10.34%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 4 (13.79%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.45%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CISSP
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) ITGC
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.34%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Hyperion
4 1 (3.45%) JD Edwards
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow