Software Developer Jobs in Belfast

Software Developer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Software Developer salary in Belfast is £52,500 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 22 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 40 131 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 7.91% 17.70% 9.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.28% 18.74% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 38 128 18
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,675 £28,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,500 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% +4.52% -3.13%
75th Percentile £62,063 £52,500 £54,438
90th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £60,000
County Antrim median annual salary £51,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +27.50% +6.67% -6.25%

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 483 699 457
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 94.46% 97.23%
Number of salaries quoted 247 397 256
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,175 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £33,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £60,063
90th Percentile £87,500 £68,000 £71,250
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% +9.29% +14.38%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Belfast

Software Developer
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in Belfast

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in Belfast over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in Belfast

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 Belfast region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 30 (75.00%) C#
2 21 (52.50%) .NET
3 13 (32.50%) AWS
4 12 (30.00%) SQL Server
5 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
5 9 (22.50%) React
6 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (20.00%) .NET Core
6 8 (20.00%) SQL
6 8 (20.00%) Web Development
6 8 (20.00%) Azure
7 7 (17.50%) Music Industry
7 7 (17.50%) .NET Framework
7 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
8 6 (15.00%) Front End Development
8 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (15.00%) Information Management
8 6 (15.00%) Entity Framework
8 6 (15.00%) Autodesk
8 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
9 5 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (12.50%) SDLC
9 5 (12.50%) Blazor
9 5 (12.50%) DevOps
9 5 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
10 4 (10.00%) Observability
10 4 (10.00%) Degree
10 4 (10.00%) TDD
11 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET

Software 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 (2.50%) Mendix
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) AWS
2 8 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) CloudFront
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.50%) PaaS
3 1 (2.50%) SaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.50%) Flink
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Git
1 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.50%) PHPUnit
1 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (17.50%) Music Industry
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.50%) Banking
2 1 (2.50%) Finance
2 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (52.50%) .NET
2 9 (22.50%) React
3 8 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 7 (17.50%) .NET Framework
5 6 (15.00%) Entity Framework
6 5 (12.50%) Blazor
7 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
8 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (5.00%) CSS
8 2 (5.00%) jQuery
8 2 (5.00%) REST
8 2 (5.00%) Web Services
9 1 (2.50%) Django
9 1 (2.50%) Laravel
9 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (2.50%) SOAP
9 1 (2.50%) Symfony
9 1 (2.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 1 (2.50%) Vue
9 1 (2.50%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
2 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (20.00%) Web Development
3 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.00%) Front End Development
4 6 (15.00%) Information Management
4 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (12.50%) DevOps
5 5 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
5 5 (12.50%) SDLC
6 4 (10.00%) Observability
6 4 (10.00%) TDD
7 3 (7.50%) Agile
7 3 (7.50%) SOLID
8 2 (5.00%) CI/CD
8 2 (5.00%) CRM
8 2 (5.00%) Full Stack Development
8 2 (5.00%) MVC
9 1 (2.50%) OO
9 1 (2.50%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) C#
2 8 (20.00%) SQL
3 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.50%) Java
5 1 (2.50%) PHP
5 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Autodesk
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
11 Software Developer jobs in County Antrim