Software Engineering Jobs in Northern Ireland

Software Engineering
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 15 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -14 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 85 123 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 12.28% 15.97% 37.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.68% 16.73% 38.83%
Number of salaries quoted 31 52 51
10th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £43,250
25th Percentile £53,250 £40,688 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £73,125 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £68,625 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -10.71% +1.34% +10.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 579 735 824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 83.67% 95.45% 97.28%
Number of salaries quoted 288 342 366
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,750 £76,250 £67,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Northern Ireland

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Northern Ireland

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Northern Ireland

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 82 £65,000 +23.81% 67
County Tyrone - 2 £50,500 - 2
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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 18 (21.18%) ArcGIS
1 18 (21.18%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 36 (42.35%) AWS
2 32 (37.65%) Azure
3 11 (12.94%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (4.71%) SaaS
6 2 (2.35%) dbt
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.18%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.18%) PaaS
7 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (25.88%) TCP/IP
2 11 (12.94%) HTTP
2 11 (12.94%) MQTT
3 6 (7.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.71%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (21.18%) GIS
2 18 (21.18%) QGIS
3 12 (14.12%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.06%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.18%) Flink
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.35%) GitLab
3 1 (1.18%) Git
3 1 (1.18%) VectorCAST
General
1 20 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.24%) Finance
3 6 (7.06%) Electronics
4 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Avionics
5 1 (1.18%) Military
5 1 (1.18%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 53 (62.35%) Software Engineer
2 25 (29.41%) Senior
3 23 (27.06%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (18.82%) Developer
5 11 (12.94%) Architect
5 11 (12.94%) Embedded Engineer
5 11 (12.94%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 11 (12.94%) Software Architect
6 9 (10.59%) Lead
7 6 (7.06%) Lead Developer
8 5 (5.88%) ERP Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Full Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
11 2 (2.35%) Lead Software Developer
11 2 (2.35%) Principal Engineer
11 2 (2.35%) Principal Software Engineer
11 2 (2.35%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.88%) .NET
2 19 (22.35%) .NET Core
2 19 (22.35%) CSS
2 19 (22.35%) Node.js
2 19 (22.35%) React
3 18 (21.18%) Leaflet
3 18 (21.18%) OpenLayers
3 18 (21.18%) PostGIS
4 17 (20.00%) Web Services
5 13 (15.29%) AngularJS
6 12 (14.12%) Kafka
7 11 (12.94%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (12.94%) RESTful
8 6 (7.06%) REST
9 5 (5.88%) FFmpeg
9 5 (5.88%) GStreamer
9 5 (5.88%) OpenCV
10 3 (3.53%) Django
10 3 (3.53%) Spring
11 2 (2.35%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) IoT
1 11 (12.94%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.35%) Fixed Income
2 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.18%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.18%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.94%) Embedded Linux
1 11 (12.94%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.94%) Agile
2 24 (28.24%) Computer Science
3 23 (27.06%) Analytics
3 23 (27.06%) Artificial Intelligence
4 21 (24.71%) DevOps
4 21 (24.71%) Web Development
5 18 (21.18%) Actionable Insight
6 16 (18.82%) Computer Vision
6 16 (18.82%) Deep Learning
6 16 (18.82%) Threat Analysis
7 12 (14.12%) Data Analytics
7 12 (14.12%) Open Source
8 11 (12.94%) Asynchronous Programming
8 11 (12.94%) Customer Requirements
8 11 (12.94%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (12.94%) Microservices
8 11 (12.94%) Multithreading
8 11 (12.94%) Product Management
9 10 (11.76%) Video Analytics
10 6 (7.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (52.94%) Python
2 22 (25.88%) C#
3 19 (22.35%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.47%) SQL
5 11 (12.94%) Bash
6 7 (8.24%) C
6 7 (8.24%) Java
7 6 (7.06%) Perl
8 2 (2.35%) Ruby
9 1 (1.18%) Ada
9 1 (1.18%) Ada 83
9 1 (1.18%) C++
9 1 (1.18%) Go
9 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 24 (28.24%) Degree
2 24 (28.24%) SC Cleared
3 16 (18.82%) Master's Degree
3 16 (18.82%) PhD
4 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (27.06%) QA
2 6 (7.06%) JTAG
3 1 (1.18%) DO-178B
System Software
1 11 (12.94%) Firmware
2 7 (8.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (21.18%) ESRI
2 11 (12.94%) Google
3 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.18%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.18%) Solace
4 1 (1.18%) Sybase