Computer Science Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Computer Science
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 9 21
Rank change year-on-year -70 +12 +29
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 13 27 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.15% 9.15% 7.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 9.96% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 21
10th Percentile - £38,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,250 £56,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £67,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.96% +68.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £41,750 £68,750 £53,750
90th Percentile - £96,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £59,773 £55,283 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.12% -3.86% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Computer Science 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 804 271 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 70.84% 91.86% 82.36%
Number of salaries quoted 275 109 321
10th Percentile - £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Computer Science

Computer Science
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 within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 13 July 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 -47 11 £38,500 -42.96% 23
County Londonderry +4 1 - - 5
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
3 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (53.85%) Law
4 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Applications Support
2 7 (53.85%) Applications Consultant
2 7 (53.85%) Applications Support Consultant
2 7 (53.85%) Consultant
2 7 (53.85%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 7 (53.85%) Support Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Graduate
3 4 (30.77%) Graduate Applications Support
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
2 1 (7.69%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (53.85%) ERP
3 4 (30.77%) Fintech
4 1 (7.69%) Agile
4 1 (7.69%) Budgeting
4 1 (7.69%) Business Continuity
4 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.69%) High Availability
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL
4 1 (7.69%) Logical Data Model
4 1 (7.69%) Logistics
4 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.69%) MVC
4 1 (7.69%) Physical Data Model
4 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) HND
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) Graylog
1 1 (7.69%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Commvault
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Zerto