Software Developer Jobs in County Antrim

Software Developer
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Software Developer salary in County Antrim is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 25 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 3 54 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 1.57% 8.52% 17.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 8.91% 18.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 52 133
10th Percentile - £30,875 £29,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,688 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +27.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £47,500 £60,688 £52,500
90th Percentile - £67,500 £56,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% +3.23%

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 171 606 777
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.53% 95.58% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 43 291 433
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £71,875 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £92,667 £87,500 £68,500
Northern Ireland median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +11.11%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in County Antrim

Software Developer
Salary Trend in County Antrim

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in County Antrim

Software 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 Software Developer within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 23 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 -6 2 £45,000 -10.00% 11
Ballymena - 1 - -
Software Developer
Northern Ireland

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, 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 County Antrim region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) WordPress
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Laravel
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) CSS

Software 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 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (33.33%) Laravel
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes