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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 6 2
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 17 137 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.61% 18.36% 32.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.20% 20.98% 34.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3 29 138
10th Percentile £33,500 £43,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £55,400 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £115,500 £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 236 653 840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 91.83% 87.53% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 59 311 436
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,408 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.82% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,667 £87,500 £71,625
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

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
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 30 May 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 30 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 -14 15 £38,750 -35.42% 298
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 4 (23.53%) Apache
1 4 (23.53%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 7 (41.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) SAP HANA
2 4 (23.53%) Apache Hive
2 4 (23.53%) Big Data
2 4 (23.53%) Hadoop
2 4 (23.53%) MySQL
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) SAP BW
General
1 7 (41.18%) Aerospace
1 7 (41.18%) Automotive
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Advertising
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Information Specialist
1 7 (41.18%) Procurement Specialist
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Apache Spark Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Project Implementation Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) QA Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering Director
4 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Kafka
1 5 (29.41%) Spring
1 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
2 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
2 4 (23.53%) J2EE
2 4 (23.53%) Java EE
3 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.88%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Management Information System
2 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (47.06%) Project Management
3 7 (41.18%) Change Management
3 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
3 7 (41.18%) Information Management
3 7 (41.18%) Innovative Thinking
3 7 (41.18%) User Stories
4 6 (35.29%) Scrum
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Concurrent Programming
6 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
6 4 (23.53%) Low Latency
6 4 (23.53%) Multithreading
6 4 (23.53%) OO
6 4 (23.53%) OOA/OOD
6 4 (23.53%) OOD
6 4 (23.53%) OOP
7 2 (11.76%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Degree
2 7 (41.18%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) SAP
2 7 (41.18%) IBM
3 4 (23.53%) Sybase