Software Engineer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Software Engineer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Software Engineer salary in Northern Ireland is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 27 63
Rank change year-on-year +9 +36 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 75 105 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 10.81% 12.14% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.31% 12.74% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 17 17 9
10th Percentile £74,500 £43,750 £53,450
25th Percentile £82,500 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £97,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile - £70,250 £68,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +6.84% +13.04%

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 663 824 632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.53% 95.26% 94.19%
Number of salaries quoted 323 457 331
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £67,500
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Northern Ireland

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Northern Ireland

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Northern Ireland

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +13 71 £85,000 +41.67% 16
County Tyrone - 1 £56,000 -
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 48 (64.00%) Python
3 41 (54.67%) Agile
4 36 (48.00%) React
4 36 (48.00%) Actionable Insight
5 34 (45.33%) DevOps
6 32 (42.67%) AWS
7 31 (41.33%) SC Cleared
7 31 (41.33%) Security Cleared
7 31 (41.33%) Azure
7 31 (41.33%) JavaScript
8 29 (38.67%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (37.33%) Web Development
9 28 (37.33%) GIS
9 28 (37.33%) ESRI
9 28 (37.33%) ArcGIS
9 28 (37.33%) PostGIS
9 28 (37.33%) Leaflet
9 28 (37.33%) GeoServer
9 28 (37.33%) OpenLayers
9 28 (37.33%) QGIS
10 27 (36.00%) .NET Core
10 27 (36.00%) .NET
11 24 (32.00%) CSS
12 21 (28.00%) C#
13 17 (22.67%) Java
13 17 (22.67%) QA
14 15 (20.00%) Linux
14 15 (20.00%) Open Source
15 14 (18.67%) Bash

Software Engineer 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 28 (37.33%) ArcGIS
1 28 (37.33%) GeoServer
2 3 (4.00%) JBoss
2 3 (4.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.67%) AWS
2 31 (41.33%) Azure
3 8 (10.67%) Serverless
4 5 (6.67%) SaaS
5 3 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.33%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.67%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (38.67%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (37.33%) GIS
2 28 (37.33%) QGIS
3 9 (12.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.33%) Flink
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.67%) Git
3 3 (4.00%) IntelliJ
3 3 (4.00%) JDeveloper
4 2 (2.67%) VectorCAST
General
1 11 (14.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.00%) Electronics
4 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.67%) Avionics
5 2 (2.67%) Military
5 2 (2.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (48.00%) React
2 28 (37.33%) Leaflet
2 28 (37.33%) OpenLayers
2 28 (37.33%) PostGIS
3 27 (36.00%) .NET
3 27 (36.00%) .NET Core
4 24 (32.00%) CSS
5 14 (18.67%) REST
5 14 (18.67%) Web Services
6 9 (12.00%) Node.js
6 9 (12.00%) SOAP
7 7 (9.33%) Spring
8 6 (8.00%) AngularJS
9 5 (6.67%) Django
9 5 (6.67%) FFmpeg
9 5 (6.67%) GStreamer
9 5 (6.67%) OpenCV
10 3 (4.00%) Java EE
10 3 (4.00%) JPA
10 3 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Video\Live Streaming
2 9 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.67%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.00%) Linux
2 11 (14.67%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (5.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.67%) Solaris
4 2 (2.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 41 (54.67%) Agile
3 36 (48.00%) Actionable Insight
4 34 (45.33%) DevOps
5 28 (37.33%) Web Development
6 15 (20.00%) Open Source
7 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (14.67%) Asynchronous Programming
8 11 (14.67%) Computer Science
8 11 (14.67%) Multithreading
9 10 (13.33%) Analytics
9 10 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (13.33%) Video Analytics
10 9 (12.00%) Customer Experience
10 9 (12.00%) Digital Customer Experience
11 8 (10.67%) Architectural Design
12 6 (8.00%) Batch Processing
13 5 (6.67%) Code Quality
13 5 (6.67%) Design Patterns
13 5 (6.67%) Epics
Programming Languages
1 48 (64.00%) Python
2 31 (41.33%) JavaScript
3 21 (28.00%) C#
4 17 (22.67%) Java
5 14 (18.67%) Bash
6 9 (12.00%) Perl
7 8 (10.67%) C
8 7 (9.33%) Ruby
9 3 (4.00%) Go
9 3 (4.00%) SQL
10 2 (2.67%) Ada
10 2 (2.67%) Ada 83
11 1 (1.33%) C++
11 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (41.33%) SC Cleared
1 31 (41.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.67%) Degree
3 5 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.67%) QA
2 6 (8.00%) JTAG
3 2 (2.67%) DO-178B
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Firmware
2 5 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (37.33%) ESRI
2 9 (12.00%) Guidewire
3 3 (4.00%) Oracle