Senior Jobs in Northern Ireland

Senior
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Senior salary in Northern Ireland is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 34 132 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 13.23% 17.69% 11.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.25% 18.51% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4 51 23
10th Percentile £60,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £68,125 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +15.79% -7.77%
75th Percentile £90,625 £62,200 £61,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £66,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.80% -10.71% -

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 223 713 829
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.77% 95.58% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 57 350 450
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,688 £37,063
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 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £87,500 £70,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Northern Ireland

Senior
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Senior in Northern Ireland

Senior
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Northern Ireland

Senior
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 within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 30 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 -2 29 £80,000 +45.45% 306
County Down - 4 - -
County Londonderry - 1 - -
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Risk Management
2 9 (26.47%) Degree
2 9 (26.47%) Analytics
2 9 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (26.47%) Coaching
3 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (20.59%) Finance
4 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
5 5 (14.71%) SQL
5 5 (14.71%) DevOps
5 5 (14.71%) AWS
5 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
6 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (11.76%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (11.76%) Mathematical Modelling
6 4 (11.76%) PaaS
6 4 (11.76%) Azure
6 4 (11.76%) IaaS
6 4 (11.76%) Statistical Modelling
6 4 (11.76%) GCP
6 4 (11.76%) Public Cloud
6 4 (11.76%) Wholesale Banking
6 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (11.76%) Mathematics
6 4 (11.76%) Banking
6 4 (11.76%) Retail
6 4 (11.76%) Cryptography

Senior 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 4 (11.76%) SAS
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.94%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) AWS
2 4 (11.76%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) GCP
2 4 (11.76%) IaaS
2 4 (11.76%) PaaS
3 3 (8.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.94%) OCI
5 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) 5G
1 1 (2.94%) 802.11
1 1 (2.94%) Internet
1 1 (2.94%) IPsec
1 1 (2.94%) LAN
1 1 (2.94%) Network Security
1 1 (2.94%) VLAN
1 1 (2.94%) VoIP
1 1 (2.94%) VPN
1 1 (2.94%) WAN
1 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.94%) Wireless
1 1 (2.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Finance
4 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.76%) Banking
5 4 (11.76%) Retail
5 4 (11.76%) Wholesale Banking
6 3 (8.82%) Marketing
7 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.94%) Electronics
7 1 (2.94%) Games
7 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.94%) Law
7 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Middleware
2 3 (8.82%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.94%) BYOD
3 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.94%) IoT
3 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Analytics
1 9 (26.47%) Coaching
1 9 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (26.47%) Risk Management
2 8 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (14.71%) DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
4 4 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (11.76%) CRM
4 4 (11.76%) Cryptography
4 4 (11.76%) Mathematical Modelling
4 4 (11.76%) Mathematics
4 4 (11.76%) Privileged Access Management
4 4 (11.76%) Project Management
4 4 (11.76%) Statistical Modelling
5 3 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (8.82%) Storytelling
5 3 (8.82%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) SQL
2 4 (11.76%) Python
3 3 (8.82%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.94%) Java
4 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) CISSP
4 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.94%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ITGC
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.94%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Ansible
1 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.82%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) NEC
5 1 (2.94%) Hyperion
5 1 (2.94%) JD Edwards
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (2.94%) Ruckus Wireless
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow