Senior Job Trends in County Antrim

Senior
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Senior salary in County Antrim is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 4 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 35 55 30
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 9.28% 18.46% 10.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.03% 18.77% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 17 10 26
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,495 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,965 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.82% +1.19% +9.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £74,786 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,500 £77,500
Northern Ireland median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -0.83% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 349 293 280
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 98.32% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 175 105 211
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £78,531 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £78,750
Northern Ireland median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Senior job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Senior
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in County Antrim.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in County Antrim

Senior
Salary Histogram in County Antrim

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in County Antrim over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in County Antrim

Senior
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 Senior within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 -7 29 £71,901 +17.94% 70
Senior
Northern Ireland

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the County Antrim region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 9 (25.71%) AWS
1 9 (25.71%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
3 5 (14.29%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (14.29%) GCP
3 5 (14.29%) Migration
3 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (11.43%) Python
4 4 (11.43%) SaaS
4 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.57%) A+ Certification
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
5 3 (8.57%) Business Continuity
5 3 (8.57%) Contract Management
5 3 (8.57%) ITIL
5 3 (8.57%) ITSM
5 3 (8.57%) MCSE
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (8.57%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (8.57%) VMware
5 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (5.71%) Agile
6 2 (5.71%) AI
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECR

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) GCP
3 4 (11.43%) SaaS
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.71%) dbt
5 2 (5.71%) Figma
5 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.71%) Pulumi
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
6 1 (2.86%) PaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) Internet
2 2 (5.71%) LAN
2 2 (5.71%) MPLS
2 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.71%) SNA
2 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.71%) WAN
2 2 (5.71%) WLAN
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (2.86%) Network Security
3 1 (2.86%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 2 (5.71%) Redis
2 2 (5.71%) Tableau
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.86%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Storybook
2 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Postman
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Finance
2 3 (8.57%) French Language
2 3 (8.57%) Swedish Language
3 2 (5.71%) Financial Institution
3 2 (5.71%) Games
3 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Django
1 2 (5.71%) Next.js
1 2 (5.71%) Svelte
2 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Avro
2 1 (2.86%) CSS
2 1 (2.86%) HTML
2 1 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (2.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
3 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (8.57%) Business Continuity
4 3 (8.57%) Contract Management
4 3 (8.57%) ITIL
4 3 (8.57%) ITSM
5 2 (5.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (5.71%) Decision-Making
5 2 (5.71%) DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) Explainable AI
5 2 (5.71%) Front End Development
5 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (5.71%) Service-Level Objective
5 2 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (5.71%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (5.71%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (5.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.86%) SQL
2 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) A+ Certification
2 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.57%) MCSE
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.71%) CCNP
3 2 (5.71%) CCSP
3 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.71%) PMP
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Ansible
1 2 (5.71%) FortiGate
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) VMware
4 2 (5.71%) Anaplan
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco
4 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.71%) Genesys
4 2 (5.71%) Google
4 2 (5.71%) Verint