Developer Jobs in County Antrim

Developer
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Developer salary in County Antrim is £69,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 15 134 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 8.15% 21.27% 41.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.93% 22.26% 43.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3 98 262
10th Percentile £57,700 £36,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £61,750 £42,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.45% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £69,500 £64,688 £61,250
90th Percentile - £68,250 £65,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £69,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.98% +3.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in County Antrim. 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 County Antrim with a recognized job title 168 602 764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 95.56% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 46 291 426
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £77,375 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £67,500
Northern Ireland median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in County Antrim

Developer
Salary Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in County Antrim.

Salary trend for Developer in County Antrim

Developer
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 13 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast -13 14 £69,000 +25.45% 34
Ballymena - 1 - -
Developer
Northern Ireland

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, 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 County Antrim region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) Java
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Kafka
2 6 (40.00%) Apache Hive
2 6 (40.00%) Apache Spark
3 5 (33.33%) Big Data
3 5 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 5 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 5 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 5 (33.33%) Apache
3 5 (33.33%) Linux
4 4 (26.67%) OOP
4 4 (26.67%) OOA/OOD
4 4 (26.67%) OO
4 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
4 4 (26.67%) Sybase
4 4 (26.67%) J2EE
4 4 (26.67%) MySQL
4 4 (26.67%) CRM
4 4 (26.67%) OOD
4 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Java EE
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Spring
4 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Design Patterns
4 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 6 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.67%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 3 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Apache Hive
2 5 (33.33%) Big Data
2 5 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 4 (26.67%) MySQL
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (6.67%) HBase
5 1 (6.67%) Impala
5 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Advertising
3 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Kafka
2 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (26.67%) J2EE
2 4 (26.67%) Java EE
2 4 (26.67%) Spring
2 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Avro
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) Laravel
4 1 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Low Latency
1 5 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) Concurrent Programming
2 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (26.67%) CRM
2 4 (26.67%) Design Patterns
2 4 (26.67%) OO
2 4 (26.67%) OOA/OOD
2 4 (26.67%) OOD
2 4 (26.67%) OOP
2 4 (26.67%) Scrum
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Filmmaking
3 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (20.00%) Storytelling
4 2 (13.33%) Database Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Apex Code
3 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.67%) PHP
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) HDFS
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Sybase
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Salesforce