Senior Jobs in Northern Ireland

Senior
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Senior salary in Northern Ireland is £60,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 11 34 25
Rank change year-on-year +23 -9 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 84 115 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.61% 11.11% 11.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.94% 11.60% 13.56%
Number of salaries quoted 33 83 53
10th Percentile £36,500 £38,386 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.04% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £64,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,250 £77,500 -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 527 991 693
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.96% 95.75% 87.17%
Number of salaries quoted 217 449 444
10th Percentile £29,993 £28,300 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 79 £59,000 +12.38% 55
Senior
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2023, 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 35 (41.67%) Actionable Insight
2 29 (34.52%) Java
2 29 (34.52%) Software Engineering
3 27 (32.14%) Security Cleared
4 25 (29.76%) AWS
5 23 (27.38%) Agile
6 22 (26.19%) SQL
7 19 (22.62%) SC Cleared
8 17 (20.24%) Azure
8 17 (20.24%) Mentoring
8 17 (20.24%) Windows
8 17 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (20.24%) Design Patterns
9 16 (19.05%) XML
9 16 (19.05%) Spring
9 16 (19.05%) JSON
10 14 (16.67%) REST
10 14 (16.67%) Microservices
10 14 (16.67%) SOAP
10 14 (16.67%) Public Sector
11 13 (15.48%) Collaborative Working
11 13 (15.48%) .NET
11 13 (15.48%) C#
11 13 (15.48%) IntelliJ
11 13 (15.48%) Hibernate
12 12 (14.29%) Finance
12 12 (14.29%) Web Services
12 12 (14.29%) GCP
12 12 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (14.29%) CI/CD

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 11 (13.10%) JBoss
1 11 (13.10%) Red Hat Fuse
2 4 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.38%) CMS
3 2 (2.38%) MQSeries
3 2 (2.38%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.19%) Confluence
4 1 (1.19%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.76%) AWS
2 17 (20.24%) Azure
3 12 (14.29%) GCP
4 7 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 7 (8.33%) Serverless
5 5 (5.95%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.38%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.38%) SaaS
8 1 (1.19%) IaaS
8 1 (1.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) WAN
2 6 (7.14%) LAN
3 5 (5.95%) Firewall
3 5 (5.95%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (3.57%) DHCP
4 3 (3.57%) DNS
5 2 (2.38%) SAN
6 1 (1.19%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.19%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.19%) ISDN
6 1 (1.19%) MPLS
6 1 (1.19%) PBX
6 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.19%) VLAN
6 1 (1.19%) VPN
6 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (13.10%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 6 (7.14%) Oracle Database 11g
4 5 (5.95%) BigQuery
4 5 (5.95%) Data Lake
4 5 (5.95%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.95%) Redis
5 3 (3.57%) Power BI
6 2 (2.38%) JasperReports
6 2 (2.38%) MySQL
6 2 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) IntelliJ
2 3 (3.57%) Git
3 2 (2.38%) Maven
3 2 (2.38%) Selenium
4 1 (1.19%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.19%) JIRA
4 1 (1.19%) Metasploit
General
1 14 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 12 (14.29%) Finance
3 8 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.95%) Games
4 5 (5.95%) Law
5 3 (3.57%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.57%) Retail
6 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.19%) Police
7 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.05%) JSON
1 16 (19.05%) Spring
1 16 (19.05%) XML
2 14 (16.67%) REST
2 14 (16.67%) SOAP
3 13 (15.48%) .NET
3 13 (15.48%) Hibernate
4 12 (14.29%) Web Services
5 11 (13.10%) AngularJS
5 11 (13.10%) JPA
5 11 (13.10%) RESTful
5 11 (13.10%) XSD
6 10 (11.90%) Java EE
7 4 (4.76%) CSS
7 4 (4.76%) HTML
8 3 (3.57%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.57%) Blazor
8 3 (3.57%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (2.38%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.38%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.95%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (5.95%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.38%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.19%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.19%) Life Science
8 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.24%) Windows
2 9 (10.71%) Linux
3 5 (5.95%) Unix
3 5 (5.95%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.19%) Android
6 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (41.67%) Actionable Insight
2 29 (34.52%) Software Engineering
3 23 (27.38%) Agile
4 17 (20.24%) Design Patterns
4 17 (20.24%) Mentoring
4 17 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (16.67%) Microservices
6 13 (15.48%) Collaborative Working
7 12 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 12 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (13.10%) Analytics
8 11 (13.10%) Data Design
8 11 (13.10%) Fintech
8 11 (13.10%) Front End Development
8 11 (13.10%) Secure Coding
8 11 (13.10%) User Experience
8 11 (13.10%) UX Design
9 10 (11.90%) DevOps
9 10 (11.90%) Unit Testing
10 8 (9.52%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.52%) Java
2 22 (26.19%) SQL
3 13 (15.48%) C#
4 7 (8.33%) Python
5 6 (7.14%) PL/SQL
6 4 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.38%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.19%) Bash
8 1 (1.19%) C++
8 1 (1.19%) Go
8 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.19%) Rust
8 1 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (5.95%) CISM
5 5 (5.95%) CISSP
5 5 (5.95%) SSCP
6 2 (2.38%) Degree
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.19%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.19%) OSCP
7 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) GDPR
1 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.19%) NIST
2 1 (1.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (13.10%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.76%) Docker
3 2 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Ansible
2 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.19%) Nessus
2 1 (1.19%) Nmap
2 1 (1.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
1 9 (10.71%) Oracle
2 3 (3.57%) Darktrace
2 3 (3.57%) Infor
2 3 (3.57%) VMware
3 2 (2.38%) Solace
3 2 (2.38%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.19%) Cisco
4 1 (1.19%) Citrix
4 1 (1.19%) Dell