Degree Jobs in Northern Ireland

Academic Degree
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -12
Permanent jobs citing Degree 105 126 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.11% 14.53% 10.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 43.39% 49.22% 32.73%
Number of salaries quoted 36 49 40
10th Percentile £22,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,625 £35,000 £33,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -10.53% +33.80%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £77,625
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 242 256 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 34.82% 29.53% 32.79%
Number of salaries quoted 75 77 80
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £61,100 £60,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £70,670 £74,250 £72,875
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Northern Ireland

Degree
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Degree in Northern Ireland

Degree
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in Northern Ireland

Degree
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 Degree within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 +4 76 £47,500 +8.57% 52
County Armagh - 14 £55,000 - 2
County Down +7 9 £37,500 - 2
County Londonderry +4 5 - - 1
County Tyrone - 1 £45,000 - 1
Degree
UK

Degree
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 7 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.90%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (17.14%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (15.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (11.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (6.67%) InfoPath
5 6 (5.71%) UserZoom
6 5 (4.76%) MS Visio
7 3 (2.86%) Adobe XD
7 3 (2.86%) InVision
7 3 (2.86%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) SAP MM
1 3 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.24%) AWS
2 15 (14.29%) Azure
3 10 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (6.67%) OneDrive
6 5 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.86%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.86%) Figma
7 3 (2.86%) GCP
7 3 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (2.86%) Route 53
7 3 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.90%) Miro
8 2 (1.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.14%) TCP/IP
2 13 (12.38%) HTTP
3 8 (7.62%) Firewall
4 7 (6.67%) FTP
5 6 (5.71%) Internet
5 6 (5.71%) MQTT
5 6 (5.71%) Wireshark
6 5 (4.76%) LAN
7 3 (2.86%) Network Security
7 3 (2.86%) VPN
7 3 (2.86%) WAN
7 3 (2.86%) Wireless
8 2 (1.90%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.90%) WLAN
9 1 (0.95%) DNS
9 1 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.81%) Power BI
4 4 (3.81%) Tableau
5 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.86%) Big Data
6 1 (0.95%) MySQL
6 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.76%) JIRA
3 3 (2.86%) GCC
General
1 56 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.71%) Manufacturing
3 22 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (20.95%) Finance
4 19 (18.10%) Pharmaceutical
5 18 (17.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (16.19%) Retail
7 12 (11.43%) Law
7 12 (11.43%) Telecoms
8 11 (10.48%) Legal
9 10 (9.52%) Banking
9 10 (9.52%) Electronics
10 8 (7.62%) Public Sector
11 4 (3.81%) Investment Banking
11 4 (3.81%) Marketing
12 2 (1.90%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.95%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (15.24%) Senior
2 15 (14.29%) Lead
3 11 (10.48%) QA Leader
3 11 (10.48%) Software Engineer
4 10 (9.52%) Analyst
5 9 (8.57%) Architect
6 8 (7.62%) Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Consultant
7 7 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Embedded Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.71%) Software Architect
9 5 (4.76%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Project Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Trainee
10 4 (3.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (3.81%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.24%) Node.js
2 11 (10.48%) Web Services
3 10 (9.52%) AngularJS
3 10 (9.52%) HTML
4 7 (6.67%) COM
4 7 (6.67%) HTML5
5 6 (5.71%) Kafka
5 6 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (5.71%) RESTful
6 5 (4.76%) FFmpeg
6 5 (4.76%) GStreamer
6 5 (4.76%) OpenCV
6 5 (4.76%) REST
7 4 (3.81%) Express.js
8 3 (2.86%) CSS
9 2 (1.90%) React
10 1 (0.95%) EDI
10 1 (0.95%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (0.95%) IDoc
10 1 (0.95%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Video\Live Streaming
2 6 (5.71%) IoT
3 5 (4.76%) FMCG
3 5 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.86%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) CCTV
6 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.95%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.19%) Linux
2 15 (14.29%) Windows
3 11 (10.48%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (5.71%) Unix
5 3 (2.86%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (39.05%) Computer Science
3 19 (18.10%) Mentoring
4 18 (17.14%) Agile
5 17 (16.19%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (16.19%) Commercialisation
5 17 (16.19%) Process Improvement
5 17 (16.19%) Software Engineering
6 16 (15.24%) OO
6 16 (15.24%) OOP
6 16 (15.24%) Root Cause Analysis
7 14 (13.33%) Open Source
8 13 (12.38%) Threat Analysis
9 12 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (11.43%) Internal Audit
9 12 (11.43%) Lean Manufacturing
9 12 (11.43%) Programme Management
9 12 (11.43%) Project Management
10 11 (10.48%) DevOps
10 11 (10.48%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.81%) Python
2 14 (13.33%) Bash
2 14 (13.33%) SQL
3 7 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.71%) C
4 6 (5.71%) Perl
5 5 (4.76%) C++
6 4 (3.81%) Bicep
6 4 (3.81%) C#
6 4 (3.81%) R
7 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.95%) ABAP
8 1 (0.95%) Java
8 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (19.05%) Master's Degree
2 18 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (11.43%) Security Cleared
4 11 (10.48%) PhD
5 10 (9.52%) SC Cleared
6 7 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 7 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.90%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.95%) CCNA
10 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.95%) MBA
10 1 (0.95%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (29.52%) QA
2 6 (5.71%) JTAG
3 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.86%) WCAG
4 2 (1.90%) GMP
5 1 (0.95%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (10.48%) Firmware
2 8 (7.62%) Docker
3 3 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) Kibana
3 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.95%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (28.57%) Google
2 18 (17.14%) SAP
3 17 (16.19%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.71%) Qualtrics
5 4 (3.81%) VMware
6 3 (2.86%) Ciena
7 2 (1.90%) Cisco
7 2 (1.90%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.90%) Meraki
7 2 (1.90%) Thales
8 1 (0.95%) CA
8 1 (0.95%) Datto
8 1 (0.95%) Kaseya
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle