GitHub Job Trends in Northern Ireland

GitHub
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 37 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 2 10 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.40% 2.49% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 8.62% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% -13.79% +4.40%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northern Ireland

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 173 116 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 34.39% 28.93% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 64 37 104
10th Percentile £36,275 £36,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £38,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £59,430 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.79% +13.20% -
75th Percentile £77,703 £77,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £100,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

GitHub
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing GitHub

GitHub
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 GitHub within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 11 January 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 -6 2 £62,500 - 20
GitHub
UK

GitHub
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Advertising
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Publishing
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) LangChain
2 1 (50.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes