Developer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Developer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Developer salary in Northern Ireland is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 10 12 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 101 196 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 18.57% 19.82% 27.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.95% 20.72% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 68 138 146
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £37,500 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +26.51% -7.78%
75th Percentile £69,850 £67,500 £52,750
90th Percentile £77,875 £77,500 £71,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 533 946 689
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.98% 95.65% 87.22%
Number of salaries quoted 220 443 440
10th Percentile £29,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,740 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Northern Ireland

Developer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Developer in Northern Ireland

Developer
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Developer in Northern Ireland

Developer
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 Developer within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 29 November 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 +1 91 £52,500 - 40
County Londonderry +8 5 £40,500 -
County Down +9 4 £50,000 -21.26%
Newry - 2 £50,000 -
County Tyrone - 1 - -
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Northern Ireland region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 49 (48.51%) .NET
2 47 (46.53%) C#
3 38 (37.62%) SQL
4 28 (27.72%) JavaScript
5 24 (23.76%) CSS
5 24 (23.76%) DevOps
6 22 (21.78%) Social Skills
6 22 (21.78%) Azure
7 21 (20.79%) Actionable Insight
7 21 (20.79%) HTML
8 20 (19.80%) MVC
8 20 (19.80%) AWS
8 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (17.82%) Java
9 18 (17.82%) Agile
10 17 (16.83%) Web Development
10 17 (16.83%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (16.83%) Microsoft
11 16 (15.84%) ASP.NET
11 16 (15.84%) SQL Server
12 15 (14.85%) Software Engineering
12 15 (14.85%) jQuery
12 15 (14.85%) Web Services
13 14 (13.86%) Spring
13 14 (13.86%) AngularJS
14 13 (12.87%) Python
14 13 (12.87%) Oracle
15 12 (11.88%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (11.88%) Microservices
16 11 (10.89%) .NET Core

Developer Skill Set
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 (5.94%) CMS
2 3 (2.97%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.98%) Confluence
3 2 (1.98%) IIS
3 2 (1.98%) JBoss
3 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Fuse
3 2 (1.98%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.98%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (21.78%) Azure
2 20 (19.80%) AWS
3 9 (8.91%) GCP
4 8 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.93%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.96%) Serverless
8 3 (2.97%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.98%) CloudFront
9 2 (1.98%) dbt
9 2 (1.98%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.99%) GitHub
10 1 (0.99%) SaaS
10 1 (0.99%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.98%) Network Security
1 2 (1.98%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.83%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (15.84%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.91%) Oracle Database
4 7 (6.93%) Power BI
4 7 (6.93%) Redis
5 6 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.94%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (4.95%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.95%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.95%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.96%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.98%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.98%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.98%) Flink
8 2 (1.98%) JasperReports
8 2 (1.98%) Kdb+
8 2 (1.98%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (1.98%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (7.92%) Git
2 7 (6.93%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.95%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.95%) JIRA
3 5 (4.95%) Maven
4 3 (2.97%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.98%) Gradle
5 2 (1.98%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.98%) JUnit
5 2 (1.98%) Selenium
6 1 (0.99%) Ant
6 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.99%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.99%) git-flow
6 1 (0.99%) Mocha
6 1 (0.99%) Subversion
6 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.89%) Finance
3 7 (6.93%) Banking
3 7 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.95%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.97%) Law
6 2 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.98%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Front Office
7 1 (0.99%) Legal
7 1 (0.99%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (48.51%) .NET
2 24 (23.76%) CSS
3 21 (20.79%) HTML
4 16 (15.84%) ASP.NET
5 15 (14.85%) jQuery
5 15 (14.85%) Web Services
6 14 (13.86%) AngularJS
6 14 (13.86%) Spring
7 11 (10.89%) .NET Core
8 10 (9.90%) XML
9 8 (7.92%) REST
10 7 (6.93%) ASP.NET MVC
10 7 (6.93%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (6.93%) HTML5
10 7 (6.93%) Node.js
11 6 (5.94%) JSON
11 6 (5.94%) RESTful
11 6 (5.94%) Spring Boot
11 6 (5.94%) WCF
12 5 (4.95%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.97%) Blockchain
2 3 (2.97%) Mainframe
2 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.98%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.98%) Robotics
4 1 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.92%) Unix
2 6 (5.94%) Linux
3 2 (1.98%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.98%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (23.76%) DevOps
2 21 (20.79%) Actionable Insight
3 20 (19.80%) MVC
3 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (17.82%) Agile
5 17 (16.83%) Web Development
6 15 (14.85%) Software Engineering
7 12 (11.88%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (11.88%) Microservices
8 11 (10.89%) Full Stack Development
9 10 (9.90%) Front End Development
9 10 (9.90%) Secure Coding
10 9 (8.91%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (8.91%) CI/CD
10 9 (8.91%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (8.91%) Design Patterns
10 9 (8.91%) Fintech
10 9 (8.91%) Unit Testing
11 8 (7.92%) Data Science
12 7 (6.93%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 47 (46.53%) C#
2 38 (37.62%) SQL
3 28 (27.72%) JavaScript
4 18 (17.82%) Java
5 13 (12.87%) Python
6 8 (7.92%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.96%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.97%) Bash
8 3 (2.97%) Go
8 3 (2.97%) Scala
8 3 (2.97%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.97%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.98%) C
9 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.98%) Rust
10 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (9.90%) Degree
2 9 (8.91%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.98%) OCP
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.96%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (3.96%) Terraform
2 2 (1.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.87%) Oracle
3 3 (2.97%) Ab Initio
3 3 (2.97%) Google
4 2 (1.98%) SAP
4 2 (1.98%) VMware