Senior Developer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Senior Developer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Senior Developer salary in Northern Ireland is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 39 65
Rank change year-on-year +10 +26 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 7 41 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.41% 5.35% 4.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.82% 5.59% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3 27 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -13.73%
75th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £79,000 £67,000 £65,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -

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 248 734 755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.52% 95.82% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 100 375 407
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,627 £38,750 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,375 £87,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Northern Ireland

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Northern Ireland

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Northern Ireland

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 2 July 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 +18 6 £60,000 +9.09% 26
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) CRM
2 3 (42.86%) Salesforce
2 3 (42.86%) Marketing
2 3 (42.86%) Apex Code
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (42.86%) Storytelling
2 3 (42.86%) Filmmaking
2 3 (42.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 3 (42.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (14.29%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
4 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (14.29%) Vue
4 1 (14.29%) Laravel
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning

Senior 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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (14.29%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (14.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Advertising
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Laravel
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CRM
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Filmmaking
2 3 (42.86%) Storytelling
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Apex Code
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Infor
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft