Agile Jobs in Northern Ireland

Agile Software Development
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 8 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 22 125 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 7.51% 16.32% 32.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 18.74% 34.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7 27 118
10th Percentile £38,000 £45,250 £35,275
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,400 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +23.81% -
75th Percentile £132,500 £69,900 £63,125
90th Percentile - £79,600 £69,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 270 667 764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.15% 87.08% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 102 333 389
10th Percentile £26,100 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,851 £38,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £72,188 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £75,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Northern Ireland

Agile
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Agile in Northern Ireland

Agile
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in Northern Ireland

Agile
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
County Antrim -10 16 £45,000 -28.00% 105
County Armagh - 1 - - 1
Newry - 1 - - 1
County Down - 1 - - 2
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 4 (18.18%) Apache
1 4 (18.18%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 7 (31.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) SAP HANA
2 4 (18.18%) Apache Hive
2 4 (18.18%) Big Data
2 4 (18.18%) Hadoop
2 4 (18.18%) MySQL
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) SAP BW
General
1 7 (31.82%) Aerospace
1 7 (31.82%) Automotive
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Advertising
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Information Specialist
1 7 (31.82%) Procurement Specialist
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Apache Spark Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering Director
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Business Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Implementation Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Project Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Project Implementation Manager
5 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) QA Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Kafka
1 5 (22.73%) Spring
1 5 (22.73%) Spring Boot
2 4 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 4 (18.18%) J2EE
2 4 (18.18%) Java EE
3 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Management Information System
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (40.91%) Project Management
3 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 7 (31.82%) Change Management
4 7 (31.82%) Computer Science
4 7 (31.82%) Information Management
4 7 (31.82%) Innovative Thinking
4 7 (31.82%) Scrum
4 7 (31.82%) User Stories
5 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
6 4 (18.18%) Budgeting
6 4 (18.18%) Concurrent Programming
6 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 4 (18.18%) Design Patterns
6 4 (18.18%) DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) IT Strategy
6 4 (18.18%) Low Latency
6 4 (18.18%) Multithreading
6 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 4 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Degree
2 7 (31.82%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.55%) PMP
3 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) SAP
2 7 (31.82%) IBM
3 4 (18.18%) Sybase