Software Engineer Jobs in Belfast

Software Engineer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Software Engineer salary in Belfast is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 31 54
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 63 77 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 12.38% 10.36% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.96% 10.94% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 5
10th Percentile - £43,750 £48,350
25th Percentile £82,500 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% -4.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £91,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,250 £66,500 £70,500
County Antrim median annual salary £85,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +41.67% -4.00% +38.89%

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 486 704 462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 94.75% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 248 401 253
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £27,650
25th Percentile £38,563 £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 £69,850 £62,500 £60,250
90th Percentile £88,250 £70,000 £71,000
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +12.50%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Belfast

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Belfast

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 40 (63.49%) Python
3 34 (53.97%) Agile
4 29 (46.03%) Actionable Insight
5 26 (41.27%) React
6 24 (38.10%) AWS
6 24 (38.10%) DevOps
6 24 (38.10%) SC Cleared
6 24 (38.10%) Security Cleared
6 24 (38.10%) JavaScript
7 22 (34.92%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (33.33%) GIS
8 21 (33.33%) ESRI
8 21 (33.33%) ArcGIS
8 21 (33.33%) Web Development
8 21 (33.33%) PostGIS
8 21 (33.33%) Leaflet
8 21 (33.33%) Azure
8 21 (33.33%) QGIS
8 21 (33.33%) GeoServer
8 21 (33.33%) OpenLayers
9 17 (26.98%) .NET Core
9 17 (26.98%) CSS
9 17 (26.98%) .NET
10 16 (25.40%) Java
11 15 (23.81%) Linux
11 15 (23.81%) Open Source
12 14 (22.22%) Bash
12 14 (22.22%) REST
12 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving

Software Engineer 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 21 (33.33%) ArcGIS
1 21 (33.33%) GeoServer
2 3 (4.76%) JBoss
2 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.10%) AWS
2 21 (33.33%) Azure
3 8 (12.70%) Serverless
4 2 (3.17%) SaaS
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.59%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) TCP/IP
2 6 (9.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.92%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (33.33%) GIS
2 21 (33.33%) QGIS
3 9 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.59%) Flink
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.94%) Git
3 3 (4.76%) IntelliJ
3 3 (4.76%) JDeveloper
4 2 (3.17%) VectorCAST
General
1 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (12.70%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.52%) Electronics
3 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.17%) Avionics
4 2 (3.17%) Military
4 2 (3.17%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (41.27%) React
2 21 (33.33%) Leaflet
2 21 (33.33%) OpenLayers
2 21 (33.33%) PostGIS
3 17 (26.98%) .NET
3 17 (26.98%) .NET Core
3 17 (26.98%) CSS
4 14 (22.22%) REST
4 14 (22.22%) Web Services
5 9 (14.29%) Node.js
5 9 (14.29%) SOAP
6 7 (11.11%) Spring
7 5 (7.94%) Django
7 5 (7.94%) FFmpeg
7 5 (7.94%) GStreamer
7 5 (7.94%) OpenCV
8 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.76%) JPA
8 3 (4.76%) JSON
8 3 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Video\Live Streaming
2 9 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.17%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.81%) Linux
2 11 (17.46%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (6.35%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.17%) Solaris
4 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 34 (53.97%) Agile
3 29 (46.03%) Actionable Insight
4 24 (38.10%) DevOps
5 21 (33.33%) Web Development
6 15 (23.81%) Open Source
7 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (17.46%) Asynchronous Programming
8 11 (17.46%) Computer Science
8 11 (17.46%) Multithreading
9 10 (15.87%) Analytics
9 10 (15.87%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (15.87%) Video Analytics
10 9 (14.29%) Customer Experience
10 9 (14.29%) Digital Customer Experience
11 8 (12.70%) Architectural Design
12 6 (9.52%) Batch Processing
13 5 (7.94%) Clean Code
13 5 (7.94%) Code Quality
13 5 (7.94%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 40 (63.49%) Python
2 24 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 16 (25.40%) Java
4 14 (22.22%) Bash
5 13 (20.63%) C#
6 9 (14.29%) Perl
7 8 (12.70%) C
8 7 (11.11%) Ruby
9 3 (4.76%) Go
10 2 (3.17%) Ada
10 2 (3.17%) Ada 83
10 2 (3.17%) SQL
11 1 (1.59%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 24 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.46%) Degree
3 5 (7.94%) Master's Degree
3 5 (7.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.22%) QA
2 6 (9.52%) JTAG
3 2 (3.17%) DO-178B
System Software
1 11 (17.46%) Firmware
2 5 (7.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (33.33%) ESRI
2 9 (14.29%) Guidewire
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle