Software Engineering Jobs in Belfast

Software Engineering
County Antrim > Belfast

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 94 154 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 18.65% 21.33% 18.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.08% 21.81% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 33 87 36
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,500 £39,875
25th Percentile £53,750 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.37% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £87,500 £62,500 £62,563
90th Percentile £94,000 £65,000 £75,625
County Antrim median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% +23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 446 706 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 88.49% 97.78% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 228 392 266
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,563
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,138 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £69,800 £63,500 £61,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £70,625
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +13.64% +3.53%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Belfast

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Belfast

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Belfast over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Belfast

Software Engineering
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 (22.34%) ArcGIS
1 21 (22.34%) GeoServer
2 3 (3.19%) JBoss
2 3 (3.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 41 (43.62%) AWS
2 28 (29.79%) Azure
3 10 (10.64%) Serverless
4 5 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (5.32%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (5.32%) SaaS
5 3 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.19%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.19%) CloudFront
6 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.06%) GitHub
7 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.02%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.38%) Wireshark
3 5 (5.32%) HTTP
3 5 (5.32%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.53%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (22.34%) GIS
2 21 (22.34%) QGIS
3 10 (10.64%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.26%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.19%) Flink
6 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.06%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (8.51%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.32%) Git
3 3 (3.19%) IntelliJ
3 3 (3.19%) JDeveloper
4 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.13%) VectorCAST
5 1 (1.06%) GitLab
5 1 (1.06%) PHPUnit
5 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.38%) Electronics
4 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.13%) Avionics
5 2 (2.13%) Finance
5 2 (2.13%) Military
5 2 (2.13%) Retail
6 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 63 (67.02%) Software Engineer
2 34 (36.17%) Senior
3 32 (34.04%) Senior Software Engineer
4 20 (21.28%) Developer
5 12 (12.77%) Embedded Engineer
5 12 (12.77%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) Software Developer
7 5 (5.32%) Architect
7 5 (5.32%) ERP Developer
7 5 (5.32%) Java Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Software Architect
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Ruby Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 2 (2.13%) Java Developer
10 2 (2.13%) Lead
10 2 (2.13%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (27.66%) React
2 25 (26.60%) .NET
3 21 (22.34%) Leaflet
3 21 (22.34%) OpenLayers
3 21 (22.34%) PostGIS
4 20 (21.28%) Web Services
5 18 (19.15%) .NET Core
6 17 (18.09%) CSS
7 15 (15.96%) REST
8 14 (14.89%) Node.js
9 9 (9.57%) SOAP
10 8 (8.51%) AngularJS
10 8 (8.51%) RESTful
11 7 (7.45%) Django
11 7 (7.45%) Spring
12 6 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (5.32%) FFmpeg
13 5 (5.32%) Kafka
13 5 (5.32%) OpenCV
13 5 (5.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.70%) Video\Live Streaming
2 10 (10.64%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.32%) IoT
4 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.09%) Linux
2 11 (11.70%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (4.26%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.19%) Unix
5 2 (2.13%) Solaris
6 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.36%) Agile
2 32 (34.04%) Actionable Insight
3 28 (29.79%) Web Development
4 26 (27.66%) DevOps
5 17 (18.09%) Analytics
5 17 (18.09%) Open Source
6 16 (17.02%) Artificial Intelligence
6 16 (17.02%) Computer Science
7 15 (15.96%) Microservices
7 15 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (14.89%) Containerisation
9 11 (11.70%) Asynchronous Programming
9 11 (11.70%) Multithreading
10 10 (10.64%) Computer Vision
10 10 (10.64%) Deep Learning
10 10 (10.64%) Threat Analysis
10 10 (10.64%) Video Analytics
11 9 (9.57%) Customer Experience
11 9 (9.57%) Digital Customer Experience
12 8 (8.51%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 47 (50.00%) Python
2 25 (26.60%) JavaScript
3 21 (22.34%) C#
4 19 (20.21%) Java
5 15 (15.96%) Bash
6 12 (12.77%) SQL
7 9 (9.57%) Perl
7 9 (9.57%) Ruby
8 8 (8.51%) C
9 5 (5.32%) Go
10 2 (2.13%) Ada
10 2 (2.13%) Ada 83
11 1 (1.06%) C++
11 1 (1.06%) PHP
11 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.06%) Rust
11 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (29.79%) SC Cleared
1 28 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.02%) Degree
3 10 (10.64%) Master's Degree
3 10 (10.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.21%) QA
2 6 (6.38%) JTAG
3 2 (2.13%) DO-178B
System Software
1 11 (11.70%) Firmware
2 7 (7.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.26%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Ansible
3 1 (1.06%) Grafana
3 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (22.34%) ESRI
2 9 (9.57%) Guidewire
3 5 (5.32%) Google
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle