Developer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Developer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Developer salary in Northern Ireland is £64,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 17 155 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.61% 20.64% 39.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.62% 21.59% 41.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4 116 262
10th Percentile £46,250 £30,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £42,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £53,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.13% +6.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £69,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile - £67,500 £65,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,242 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.61% -15.01% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 223 718 794
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.77% 95.61% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 57 354 449
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £69,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £90,500 £87,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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 -13 17 £64,500 +17.27% 46
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 9 (52.94%) Java
2 8 (47.06%) Kafka
3 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 7 (41.18%) Finance
4 6 (35.29%) Spring
4 6 (35.29%) Apache Spark
4 6 (35.29%) Apache Hive
4 6 (35.29%) Spring Boot
4 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) Big Data
5 5 (29.41%) Hadoop
5 5 (29.41%) Low Latency
5 5 (29.41%) Agile
5 5 (29.41%) Multithreading
5 5 (29.41%) Apache
5 5 (29.41%) Linux
6 4 (23.53%) OOP
6 4 (23.53%) OOA/OOD
6 4 (23.53%) OO
6 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
6 4 (23.53%) Sybase
6 4 (23.53%) J2EE
6 4 (23.53%) MySQL
6 4 (23.53%) CRM
6 4 (23.53%) OOD
6 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Java EE
6 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
6 4 (23.53%) Scrum
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement

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 (35.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (29.41%) Apache
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Apache Hive
2 5 (29.41%) Big Data
2 5 (29.41%) Hadoop
3 4 (23.53%) MySQL
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
4 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
5 1 (5.88%) HBase
5 1 (5.88%) Impala
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Gradle
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Maven
2 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Advertising
2 3 (17.65%) Marketing
3 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Kafka
2 6 (35.29%) Spring
2 6 (35.29%) Spring Boot
3 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
3 4 (23.53%) J2EE
3 4 (23.53%) Java EE
4 3 (17.65%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (5.88%) Apache Avro
5 1 (5.88%) Bootstrap
5 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.88%) Grails
5 1 (5.88%) HTML
5 1 (5.88%) Keycloak
5 1 (5.88%) Laravel
5 1 (5.88%) Micronaut
5 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.88%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) RxJava
5 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (5.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Low Latency
2 5 (29.41%) Multithreading
3 4 (23.53%) Concurrent Programming
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (23.53%) CRM
3 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
3 4 (23.53%) OO
3 4 (23.53%) OOA/OOD
3 4 (23.53%) OOD
3 4 (23.53%) OOP
3 4 (23.53%) Scrum
3 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Filmmaking
4 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
4 3 (17.65%) Storytelling
5 2 (11.76%) Microservices
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Apex Code
4 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Groovy
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) Python
5 1 (5.88%) Ruby
5 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Sybase
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Salesforce