Computer Science Degree Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Computer Science Degree
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 26 43
Rank change year-on-year -36 +17 +29
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 8 9 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.86% 3.72% 3.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.85% 12.86% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 12
10th Percentile - - £29,125
25th Percentile - £105,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £110,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -63.64% +171.60% -4.71%
75th Percentile £53,125 £115,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £60,625 - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -1.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 165 70 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 17.82% 28.93% 28.90%
Number of salaries quoted 35 18 75
10th Percentile £29,800 £33,254 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,125 £34,112 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £45,111 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.60% +0.25% +5.88%
75th Percentile £63,125 £85,624 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £95,625 £68,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -8.79%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Computer Science Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in Northern Ireland

Computer Science Degree
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 Computer Science Degree within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. 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 -30 7 £40,000 -63.64% 2
County Londonderry - 1 - -
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP CO
1 1 (12.50%) SAP FI
1 1 (12.50%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Advertising
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 4 (50.00%) Graduate
1 4 (50.00%) Graduate Applications Support
2 1 (12.50%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
2 1 (12.50%) LangChain
2 1 (12.50%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (12.50%) Next.js
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Fintech
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) LLM
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) HND
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Graylog
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Commvault
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Zerto