Agile Jobs in Northern Ireland

Agile Software Development
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 130 279 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 18.73% 32.71% 27.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.87% 33.66% 30.79%
Number of salaries quoted 27 142 94
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £54,446 £37,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +4.48% +12.92%
75th Percentile £69,375 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £79,600 £65,450 £62,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 623 829 604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 89.77% 97.19% 90.55%
Number of salaries quoted 294 443 339
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 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
County Antrim -2 128 £60,000 +14.29% 34
County Londonderry +5 1 £65,000 +44.44% 1
County Tyrone - 1 - - 1
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 28 (21.54%) ArcGIS
1 28 (21.54%) GeoServer
2 4 (3.08%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.31%) Confluence
4 1 (0.77%) Apache
4 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.77%) CMS
4 1 (0.77%) JBoss
4 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.31%) UserZoom
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.77%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (38.46%) Azure
2 45 (34.62%) AWS
3 5 (3.85%) SaaS
4 4 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.31%) dbt
6 2 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.54%) GCP
6 2 (1.54%) Miro
6 2 (1.54%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.54%) Serverless
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.77%) GitHub
7 1 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.62%) Wireshark
3 4 (3.08%) BGP
3 4 (3.08%) DNS
3 4 (3.08%) SSL
4 3 (2.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.54%) GIS
1 28 (21.54%) PostgreSQL
1 28 (21.54%) QGIS
2 11 (8.46%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.85%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.08%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.08%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.54%) Big Data
6 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.54%) Power BI
6 2 (1.54%) Tableau
7 1 (0.77%) Flink
7 1 (0.77%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.77%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (6.92%) Jenkins
1 9 (6.92%) JIRA
2 2 (1.54%) VectorCAST
3 1 (0.77%) GitLab
3 1 (0.77%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.77%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.77%) Postman
3 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.00%) Finance
4 12 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.62%) Electronics
6 5 (3.85%) Banking
6 5 (3.85%) Law
7 3 (2.31%) Retail
8 2 (1.54%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.54%) Agriculture
8 2 (1.54%) Avionics
8 2 (1.54%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.54%) Military
8 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 37 (28.46%) Senior
3 19 (14.62%) Senior Software Engineer
4 18 (13.85%) Architect
4 18 (13.85%) Project Manager
5 14 (10.77%) Developer
5 14 (10.77%) Presales Manager
6 13 (10.00%) Analyst
6 13 (10.00%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Embedded Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Lead
7 8 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.85%) Product Manager
8 5 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 5 (3.85%) User Researcher
9 4 (3.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (3.08%) Lead Architect
9 4 (3.08%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.08%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (24.62%) .NET
2 31 (23.85%) React
3 28 (21.54%) .NET Core
3 28 (21.54%) Leaflet
3 28 (21.54%) OpenLayers
3 28 (21.54%) PostGIS
4 25 (19.23%) CSS
5 12 (9.23%) Node.js
6 9 (6.92%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.38%) Spring Boot
8 6 (4.62%) Django
9 5 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (3.08%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.08%) ASP.NET
10 4 (3.08%) Express.js
10 4 (3.08%) Spring
11 3 (2.31%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (2.31%) Entity Framework
11 3 (2.31%) Ruby on Rails
11 3 (2.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (4.62%) Video\Live Streaming
2 5 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.31%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.31%) Social Network
4 2 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.54%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.77%) Life Science
5 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.85%) Linux
2 6 (4.62%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.08%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.54%) Solaris
4 2 (1.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (59.23%) Actionable Insight
2 46 (35.38%) DevOps
3 42 (32.31%) Software Engineering
4 30 (23.08%) SDLC
5 28 (21.54%) Web Development
6 26 (20.00%) Project Management
7 22 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (13.85%) Agile Project Management
9 17 (13.08%) Presales
9 17 (13.08%) Software Delivery
9 17 (13.08%) User Research
10 15 (11.54%) Open Source
11 14 (10.77%) Project Delivery
11 14 (10.77%) Requirements Analysis
11 14 (10.77%) Scrum
12 13 (10.00%) Roadmaps
12 13 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (9.23%) Mentoring
13 12 (9.23%) Workshop Facilitation
14 11 (8.46%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 41 (31.54%) Python
2 34 (26.15%) JavaScript
3 23 (17.69%) C#
4 8 (6.15%) Bash
4 8 (6.15%) C
5 7 (5.38%) SQL
6 6 (4.62%) Perl
7 5 (3.85%) Java
7 5 (3.85%) Ruby
8 2 (1.54%) Ada
8 2 (1.54%) Ada 83
9 1 (0.77%) Go
9 1 (0.77%) PHP
9 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 67 (51.54%) Security Cleared
2 64 (49.23%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.08%) Degree
4 4 (3.08%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.08%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.54%) QA
2 6 (4.62%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.62%) JTAG
3 2 (1.54%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.77%) PMO
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
4 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (4.62%) Firmware
2 3 (2.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.31%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.54%) Ansible
2 2 (1.54%) Terraform
3 1 (0.77%) Grafana
3 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (21.54%) ESRI
2 6 (4.62%) Oracle
3 5 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.85%) Sparx
4 3 (2.31%) Qualtrics
5 1 (0.77%) Cadence
5 1 (0.77%) Cognos