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 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 39 34
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 2 12 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.48% 2.48% 3.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 2.53% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - £41,500 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £67,500
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 £77,188
90th Percentile - £67,500 £80,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

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 356 474 326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.37% 97.93% 96.74%
Number of salaries quoted 157 242 250
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,112 £29,919
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,115 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +18.23% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,375 £76,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Java Developer job vacancy trend 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 4 November 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 -2 2 £45,000 -21.74% 1
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Northern Ireland region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Grails
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Micronaut
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing

Java Developer Skill Set
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%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Grails
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (50.00%) Micronaut
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RxJava
2 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes