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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 -11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 12 111 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.56% 14.00% 18.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 16.13% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5 49 80
10th Percentile £79,500 £52,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £127,500 £52,500 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £132,500 £90,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £97,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £68,000 £60,125 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.10% -14.11% +1.71%

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 244 688 783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.78% 86.76% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 79 342 416
10th Percentile £25,501 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,750 £87,500 £70,375
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

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 19 June 2025.

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 19 June 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 -15 8 £50,000 -16.67% 301
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 4 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Simulink
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 4 (33.33%) Big Data
1 4 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 4 (33.33%) MySQL
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Apache Spark Developer
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
1 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering Director
2 3 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 4 (33.33%) J2EE
1 4 (33.33%) Java EE
1 4 (33.33%) Kafka
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
1 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
1 8 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
2 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 4 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 4 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 4 (33.33%) OO
2 4 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
2 4 (33.33%) OOD
2 4 (33.33%) OOP
2 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (33.33%) Scrum
2 4 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (8.33%) C
3 1 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) HNC
1 3 (25.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Sybase