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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 15 131 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.21% 18.93% 32.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 20.96% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 28 138
10th Percentile - £39,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £51,057 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £33,750 £69,063 £61,250
90th Percentile - £79,600 £66,100
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 257 625 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 89.24% 90.32% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 70 297 445
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,112 £33,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £69,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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
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 1 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
County Antrim -17 14 £32,500 -45.83% 71
County Armagh - 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 6 (40.00%) Confluence
2 4 (26.67%) Apache
2 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
1 2 (13.33%) GitHub
1 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) IPv6
1 2 (13.33%) Multicast
1 2 (13.33%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) VoIP
2 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Hive
1 4 (26.67%) Big Data
1 4 (26.67%) Hadoop
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
3 1 (6.67%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Archiva
2 2 (13.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (13.33%) Vagrant
3 1 (6.67%) Android Studio
3 1 (6.67%) HP UFT
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) Xcode
3 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark Developer
3 4 (26.67%) C# Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior C# Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Project Implementation Manager
5 1 (6.67%) QA Leader
5 1 (6.67%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) GStreamer
1 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
1 4 (26.67%) J2EE
1 4 (26.67%) Java EE
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
1 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (26.67%) REST
1 4 (26.67%) Spring
1 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
1 4 (26.67%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (13.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (6.67%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (26.67%) Algorithms
2 4 (26.67%) CUDA
2 4 (26.67%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (26.67%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (13.33%) PKI
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) VMS
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Android
3 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Scrum
2 8 (53.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (53.33%) Low Latency
2 8 (53.33%) Multithreading
2 8 (53.33%) OO
2 8 (53.33%) OOP
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (40.00%) Microservices
4 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (26.67%) Concurrent Programming
5 4 (26.67%) Deep Learning
5 4 (26.67%) Design Patterns
5 4 (26.67%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (26.67%) OOD
5 4 (26.67%) Video Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) Python
3 6 (40.00%) Bash
4 4 (26.67%) C
4 4 (26.67%) C#
4 4 (26.67%) Java
5 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Argo
2 2 (13.33%) Kustomize
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) NVIDIA
1 4 (26.67%) Sybase
2 1 (6.67%) SAP