Degree Jobs in Northern Ireland

Academic Degree
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 14 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +14
Permanent jobs citing Degree 77 242 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.31% 23.38% 20.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.38% 77.07% 54.05%
Number of salaries quoted 30 66 102
10th Percentile £24,875 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,438 £31,986 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £59,688 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,625 £74,975 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 224 314 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 41.64% 30.34% 37.23%
Number of salaries quoted 75 94 142
10th Percentile £29,993 £26,250 £25,100
25th Percentile £38,750 £30,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,291 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.80% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £69,500 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,610 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Northern Ireland

Degree
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Degree in Northern Ireland

Degree
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Degree in Northern Ireland

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 Degree within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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 -11 67 £45,000 +9.09% 117
County Armagh +2 7 - - 2
County Tyrone - 2 - - 1
County Londonderry - 1 - -
Degree
UK

Degree
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 2 (2.60%) SAS
2 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (5.19%) Windchill
4 2 (2.60%) ArcView
4 2 (2.60%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 24 (31.17%) Azure
2 16 (20.78%) AWS
3 9 (11.69%) GCP
4 7 (9.09%) IaaS
5 4 (5.19%) PaaS
5 4 (5.19%) SaaS
6 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.30%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.69%) Network Security
2 6 (7.79%) Firewall
3 4 (5.19%) Wireshark
4 3 (3.90%) DHCP
4 3 (3.90%) DNS
4 3 (3.90%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (2.60%) Wireless
6 1 (1.30%) LAN
6 1 (1.30%) PBX
6 1 (1.30%) VoIP
6 1 (1.30%) VPN
6 1 (1.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) Big Data
2 4 (5.19%) MySQL
3 3 (3.90%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (3.90%) Power BI
3 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.90%) Tableau
4 2 (2.60%) GIS
4 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) AutoIt
1 4 (5.19%) eggPlant
2 3 (3.90%) JIRA
3 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
General
1 31 (40.26%) Social Skills
2 23 (29.87%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (18.18%) Finance
4 10 (12.99%) Manufacturing
5 9 (11.69%) Pharmaceutical
5 9 (11.69%) Telecoms
6 7 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (9.09%) Legal
6 7 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 7 (9.09%) Retail
7 4 (5.19%) Aerospace
7 4 (5.19%) Automotive
7 4 (5.19%) Banking
8 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.90%) Law
8 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (16.88%) Analyst
2 11 (14.29%) Developer
3 10 (12.99%) Architect
3 10 (12.99%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 7 (9.09%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 7 (9.09%) Lead
4 7 (9.09%) QA Leader
5 5 (6.49%) Angular Developer
5 5 (6.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (6.49%) Site Controller
6 4 (5.19%) Applications Support
6 4 (5.19%) Applications Support Analyst
6 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Support Analyst
6 4 (5.19%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
1 5 (6.49%) Express.js
1 5 (6.49%) ModSecurity
1 5 (6.49%) Node.js
2 2 (2.60%) FastAPI
2 2 (2.60%) Kafka
2 2 (2.60%) Middleware
2 2 (2.60%) Pandas
3 1 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.30%) GeoJSON
3 1 (1.30%) JRuby
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.49%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.19%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.90%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.30%) CCTV
6 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.30%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.99%) Windows
2 9 (11.69%) Linux
3 4 (5.19%) Unix
3 4 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.90%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.30%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.30%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (46.75%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (35.06%) Actionable Insight
3 26 (33.77%) Computer Science
4 20 (25.97%) Agile
5 19 (24.68%) DevOps
6 16 (20.78%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (14.29%) Validation
8 9 (11.69%) Mathematics
8 9 (11.69%) Physics
8 9 (11.69%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.39%) Technical Analysis
10 7 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
10 7 (9.09%) Lean Manufacturing
10 7 (9.09%) Network Architecture
10 7 (9.09%) Requirements Analysis
10 7 (9.09%) Requirements Management
10 7 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (9.09%) SDLC
10 7 (9.09%) Software Architecture
10 7 (9.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.99%) Python
2 8 (10.39%) SQL
3 5 (6.49%) Java
3 5 (6.49%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.19%) Bash
5 2 (2.60%) C
5 2 (2.60%) C#
6 1 (1.30%) Go
6 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.30%) Perl
6 1 (1.30%) R
6 1 (1.30%) Ruby
6 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.09%) CISM
4 7 (9.09%) CISSP
4 7 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (7.79%) CISA
6 5 (6.49%) CEH
6 5 (6.49%) CRISC
7 4 (5.19%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (5.19%) GIAC
7 4 (5.19%) OSCP
8 3 (3.90%) HND
8 3 (3.90%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.60%) DBS Check
9 2 (2.60%) PhD
10 1 (1.30%) MCP
10 1 (1.30%) MCSA
10 1 (1.30%) OSCE
10 1 (1.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (9.09%) QA
2 6 (7.79%) NIST
3 5 (6.49%) GRC
3 5 (6.49%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.30%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.19%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.60%) Docker
3 2 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.90%) Grafana
2 3 (3.90%) Kibana
2 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.60%) Ansible
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.30%) Nagios
4 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
1 9 (11.69%) VMware
2 8 (10.39%) SAP
3 7 (9.09%) Google
4 5 (6.49%) CA
5 4 (5.19%) Citrix
6 3 (3.90%) Commvault
6 3 (3.90%) Veeam
7 1 (1.30%) ESRI
7 1 (1.30%) IBM
7 1 (1.30%) Minitab
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle
7 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.30%) Splunk