Software Engineer Jobs in County Antrim

Software Engineer
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Software Engineer salary in County Antrim is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 28 56
Rank change year-on-year +11 +28 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 71 92 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 11.22% 11.36% 2.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.74% 11.98% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 13 19 5
10th Percentile - £43,750 £48,350
25th Percentile £82,500 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -4.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £90,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £69,500 £70,500
Northern Ireland median annual salary £90,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% +4.35% +27.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 605 768 519
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.58% 94.81% 97.19%
Number of salaries quoted 291 432 288
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +9.29% +14.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £67,350 £70,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £54,408 £50,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year +8.82% +12.36% +11.25%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in County Antrim

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in County Antrim

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in County Antrim

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in County Antrim

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in County Antrim over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in County Antrim

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +16 63 £87,500 +45.83% 14
Software Engineer
Northern Ireland

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 County Antrim region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 47 (66.20%) Python
3 41 (57.75%) Agile
4 36 (50.70%) Actionable Insight
5 33 (46.48%) React
6 31 (43.66%) AWS
6 31 (43.66%) DevOps
6 31 (43.66%) SC Cleared
6 31 (43.66%) Security Cleared
6 31 (43.66%) JavaScript
7 29 (40.85%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (39.44%) GIS
8 28 (39.44%) ESRI
8 28 (39.44%) ArcGIS
8 28 (39.44%) Web Development
8 28 (39.44%) PostGIS
8 28 (39.44%) Leaflet
8 28 (39.44%) Azure
8 28 (39.44%) QGIS
8 28 (39.44%) GeoServer
8 28 (39.44%) OpenLayers
9 24 (33.80%) .NET Core
9 24 (33.80%) CSS
9 24 (33.80%) .NET
10 18 (25.35%) C#
11 16 (22.54%) Java
12 15 (21.13%) Linux
12 15 (21.13%) Open Source
13 14 (19.72%) Bash
13 14 (19.72%) REST

Software Engineer 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 28 (39.44%) ArcGIS
1 28 (39.44%) GeoServer
2 3 (4.23%) JBoss
2 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 31 (43.66%) AWS
2 28 (39.44%) Azure
3 8 (11.27%) Serverless
4 2 (2.82%) SaaS
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.41%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.49%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (40.85%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (39.44%) GIS
2 28 (39.44%) QGIS
3 9 (12.68%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.41%) Flink
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.04%) Git
3 3 (4.23%) IntelliJ
3 3 (4.23%) JDeveloper
4 2 (2.82%) VectorCAST
General
1 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.45%) Electronics
3 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.82%) Avionics
4 2 (2.82%) Military
4 2 (2.82%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (46.48%) React
2 28 (39.44%) Leaflet
2 28 (39.44%) OpenLayers
2 28 (39.44%) PostGIS
3 24 (33.80%) .NET
3 24 (33.80%) .NET Core
3 24 (33.80%) CSS
4 14 (19.72%) REST
4 14 (19.72%) Web Services
5 9 (12.68%) Node.js
5 9 (12.68%) SOAP
6 7 (9.86%) Spring
7 5 (7.04%) Django
7 5 (7.04%) FFmpeg
7 5 (7.04%) GStreamer
7 5 (7.04%) OpenCV
8 3 (4.23%) Java EE
8 3 (4.23%) JPA
8 3 (4.23%) JSON
8 3 (4.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Video\Live Streaming
2 9 (12.68%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.82%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Linux
2 11 (15.49%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (5.63%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.82%) Solaris
4 2 (2.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 41 (57.75%) Agile
3 36 (50.70%) Actionable Insight
4 31 (43.66%) DevOps
5 28 (39.44%) Web Development
6 15 (21.13%) Open Source
7 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (15.49%) Asynchronous Programming
8 11 (15.49%) Computer Science
8 11 (15.49%) Multithreading
9 10 (14.08%) Analytics
9 10 (14.08%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (14.08%) Video Analytics
10 9 (12.68%) Customer Experience
10 9 (12.68%) Digital Customer Experience
11 8 (11.27%) Architectural Design
12 6 (8.45%) Batch Processing
13 5 (7.04%) Code Quality
13 5 (7.04%) Containerisation
13 5 (7.04%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 47 (66.20%) Python
2 31 (43.66%) JavaScript
3 18 (25.35%) C#
4 16 (22.54%) Java
5 14 (19.72%) Bash
6 9 (12.68%) Perl
7 8 (11.27%) C
8 7 (9.86%) Ruby
9 3 (4.23%) Go
10 2 (2.82%) Ada
10 2 (2.82%) Ada 83
10 2 (2.82%) SQL
11 1 (1.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 31 (43.66%) SC Cleared
1 31 (43.66%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.49%) Degree
3 5 (7.04%) Master's Degree
3 5 (7.04%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.72%) QA
2 6 (8.45%) JTAG
3 2 (2.82%) DO-178B
System Software
1 11 (15.49%) Firmware
2 5 (7.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (39.44%) ESRI
2 9 (12.68%) Guidewire
3 3 (4.23%) Oracle