Software Engineering Jobs in Northern Ireland

Software Engineering
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 12 1 11
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 -8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 81 359 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.06% 34.69% 18.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.67% 35.20% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 19 52 70
10th Percentile £47,500 £34,225 £27,150
25th Percentile £53,125 £36,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £50,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -0.50% +5.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,500 £72,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 517 1,020 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 96.10% 98.55% 98.62%
Number of salaries quoted 205 450 451
10th Percentile £29,993 £28,500 £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 £68,750 £64,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £75,125 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 1 December 2023.

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 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 -10 79 £60,500 +20.40% 38
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 11 (13.58%) JBoss
1 11 (13.58%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 29 (35.80%) Serverless
2 18 (22.22%) AWS
3 12 (14.81%) GCP
4 7 (8.64%) OpenShift
5 6 (7.41%) Azure
6 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.47%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) Oracle Database
1 7 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (8.64%) RDBMS
1 7 (8.64%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.17%) BigQuery
2 5 (6.17%) Data Lake
2 5 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.17%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.17%) Redis
3 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.47%) Flink
4 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.23%) Big Data
5 1 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.23%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 20 (24.69%) Git
2 11 (13.58%) IntelliJ
3 4 (4.94%) AutoIt
3 4 (4.94%) eggPlant
4 2 (2.47%) JDeveloper
5 1 (1.23%) GitLab
5 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Police
3 11 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.64%) Aerospace
5 6 (7.41%) Finance
5 6 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.94%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 52 (64.20%) Software Engineer
2 29 (35.80%) Senior
3 25 (30.86%) Java Engineer
3 25 (30.86%) Java Software Engineer
4 22 (27.16%) Senior Software Engineer
5 15 (18.52%) Developer
6 11 (13.58%) Lead
7 9 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
7 9 (11.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 7 (8.64%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 7 (8.64%) Java Developer
8 7 (8.64%) Ruby Engineer
8 7 (8.64%) Senior Developer
8 7 (8.64%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Systems Integration Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (29.63%) Spring
2 23 (28.40%) React
3 13 (16.05%) .NET
3 13 (16.05%) J2EE
3 13 (16.05%) Ruby on Rails
4 12 (14.81%) AngularJS
5 11 (13.58%) Hibernate
5 11 (13.58%) JPA
5 11 (13.58%) JSON
5 11 (13.58%) REST
5 11 (13.58%) SOAP
5 11 (13.58%) Web Services
5 11 (13.58%) XML
5 11 (13.58%) XSD
6 10 (12.35%) Java EE
7 8 (9.88%) RESTful
8 7 (8.64%) Node.js
9 4 (4.94%) ASP.NET
10 3 (3.70%) Razor View Engine
10 3 (3.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.47%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.58%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.47%) Unix
3 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (60.49%) Actionable Insight
2 40 (49.38%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (40.74%) Microservices
4 32 (39.51%) Design Patterns
5 27 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 24 (29.63%) Mentoring
7 22 (27.16%) Clean Code
7 22 (27.16%) Continuous Integration
7 22 (27.16%) Unit Testing
8 21 (25.93%) Agile
9 20 (24.69%) Code Quality
10 17 (20.99%) Coaching
11 16 (19.75%) DevOps
12 14 (17.28%) CI/CD
12 14 (17.28%) Collaborative Working
13 12 (14.81%) Front End Development
14 11 (13.58%) Data Design
14 11 (13.58%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (13.58%) User Experience
14 11 (13.58%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 48 (59.26%) Java
2 35 (43.21%) Python
3 29 (35.80%) C#
4 20 (24.69%) Ruby
5 13 (16.05%) JavaScript
6 10 (12.35%) Go
7 8 (9.88%) Bash
8 7 (8.64%) Perl
9 5 (6.17%) SQL
10 3 (3.70%) Rust
11 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.23%) C++
12 1 (1.23%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (46.91%) Security Cleared
2 31 (38.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.11%) Degree
4 7 (8.64%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) Terraform
2 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.23%) Ansible
3 1 (1.23%) Grafana
3 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (8.64%) Oracle
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.23%) ESRI