Java Developer Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Java Developer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Java Developer salary in Northern Ireland is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 42 36
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 9 12 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.85% 2.37% 4.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.18% 2.43% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 18
10th Percentile - £41,500 £46,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -17.86% +37.25%
75th Percentile £47,500 £63,750 £79,688
90th Percentile - £67,500 £89,125
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +3.23%

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 283 494 390
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.56% 97.44% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 131 281 312
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,774
25th Percentile £40,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Northern Ireland

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Northern Ireland.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Northern Ireland

Java 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 Java Developer within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 19 September 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 +14 9 £45,000 -21.74%
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Java 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 Java Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (88.89%) Kafka
3 6 (66.67%) Apache Spark
3 6 (66.67%) Spring
3 6 (66.67%) Apache Hive
3 6 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (55.56%) Hadoop
4 5 (55.56%) Agile
4 5 (55.56%) Multithreading
4 5 (55.56%) Big Data
4 5 (55.56%) Low Latency
4 5 (55.56%) Apache
4 5 (55.56%) Finance
4 5 (55.56%) SQL
4 5 (55.56%) Linux
5 4 (44.44%) OOP
5 4 (44.44%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (44.44%) OO
5 4 (44.44%) OOD
5 4 (44.44%) J2EE
5 4 (44.44%) MySQL
5 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
5 4 (44.44%) Sybase
5 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
5 4 (44.44%) Scrum
5 4 (44.44%) Java EE
5 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns

Java 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 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 5 (55.56%) Apache
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Apache Hive
2 5 (55.56%) Big Data
2 5 (55.56%) Hadoop
3 4 (44.44%) MySQL
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
4 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (11.11%) HBase
5 1 (11.11%) Impala
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Gradle
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Advertising
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Kafka
2 6 (66.67%) Spring
2 6 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
3 4 (44.44%) J2EE
3 4 (44.44%) Java EE
4 1 (11.11%) Apache Avro
4 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
4 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (11.11%) Grails
4 1 (11.11%) jQuery
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
4 1 (11.11%) Micronaut
4 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) RxJava
4 1 (11.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Low Latency
2 5 (55.56%) Multithreading
3 4 (44.44%) Concurrent Programming
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) OO
3 4 (44.44%) OOA/OOD
3 4 (44.44%) OOD
3 4 (44.44%) OOP
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) API Development
5 1 (11.11%) Build Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Functional Programming
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) SDLC
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Sybase
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle