Software Engineering Jobs in Belfast

Software Engineering
County Antrim > Belfast

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 93 139 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 16.85% 18.56% 21.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.62% 19.23% 21.66%
Number of salaries quoted 37 79 44
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,500 £43,075
25th Percentile £53,750 £37,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -4.76% +20.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £98,500 £65,900 £63,375
County Antrim median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 474 723 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 85.87% 96.53% 97.23%
Number of salaries quoted 243 396 262
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,500 £37,250 £33,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,276 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £67,500
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +18.75%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Belfast

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Belfast

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Belfast over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Belfast

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 21 (22.58%) ArcGIS
1 21 (22.58%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 46 (49.46%) AWS
2 33 (35.48%) Azure
3 11 (11.83%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (5.38%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (5.38%) SaaS
5 4 (4.30%) Serverless
6 2 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.15%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.15%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.08%) GitHub
7 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.66%) TCP/IP
2 11 (11.83%) HTTP
2 11 (11.83%) MQTT
3 6 (6.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.73%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (22.58%) GIS
2 21 (22.58%) QGIS
3 11 (11.83%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.15%) Flink
6 1 (1.08%) MySQL
6 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.15%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.15%) VectorCAST
3 1 (1.08%) Git
3 1 (1.08%) PHPUnit
General
1 20 (21.51%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.45%) Electronics
4 5 (5.38%) Finance
5 2 (2.15%) Avionics
5 2 (2.15%) Military
5 2 (2.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (63.44%) Software Engineer
2 32 (34.41%) Senior
3 29 (31.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 19 (20.43%) Developer
5 12 (12.90%) Embedded Engineer
5 12 (12.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 11 (11.83%) Architect
6 11 (11.83%) Software Architect
7 9 (9.68%) Software Developer
8 5 (5.38%) ERP Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 2 (2.15%) Java Developer
10 2 (2.15%) Lead
10 2 (2.15%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (2.15%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 1 (1.08%) Blockchain Engineer
11 1 (1.08%) Full Stack Engineer
11 1 (1.08%) Python Engineer
11 1 (1.08%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.88%) .NET
2 23 (24.73%) Web Services
3 21 (22.58%) Leaflet
3 21 (22.58%) OpenLayers
3 21 (22.58%) PostGIS
3 21 (22.58%) React
4 18 (19.35%) .NET Core
4 18 (19.35%) CSS
5 17 (18.28%) Node.js
6 12 (12.90%) AngularJS
6 12 (12.90%) RabbitMQ
6 12 (12.90%) REST
7 11 (11.83%) Kafka
7 11 (11.83%) RESTful
8 6 (6.45%) Django
8 6 (6.45%) SOAP
9 5 (5.38%) FFmpeg
9 5 (5.38%) GStreamer
9 5 (5.38%) OpenCV
9 5 (5.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.83%) IoT
1 11 (11.83%) Video\Live Streaming
2 10 (10.75%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.15%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.08%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.13%) Linux
2 11 (11.83%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (4.30%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.15%) Solaris
4 2 (2.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.56%) Agile
2 28 (30.11%) Web Development
3 23 (24.73%) Analytics
3 23 (24.73%) Artificial Intelligence
4 22 (23.66%) Computer Science
4 22 (23.66%) DevOps
5 21 (22.58%) Actionable Insight
6 16 (17.20%) Computer Vision
6 16 (17.20%) Deep Learning
6 16 (17.20%) Threat Analysis
7 15 (16.13%) Microservices
8 13 (13.98%) Open Source
9 12 (12.90%) Data Analytics
10 11 (11.83%) Asynchronous Programming
10 11 (11.83%) Customer Requirements
10 11 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (11.83%) Multithreading
10 11 (11.83%) Product Management
11 10 (10.75%) Video Analytics
12 9 (9.68%) Digital Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 48 (51.61%) Python
2 23 (24.73%) JavaScript
3 19 (20.43%) C#
3 19 (20.43%) SQL
4 13 (13.98%) Java
5 11 (11.83%) Bash
6 8 (8.60%) C
7 6 (6.45%) Perl
8 4 (4.30%) Ruby
9 2 (2.15%) Ada
9 2 (2.15%) Ada 83
10 1 (1.08%) C++
10 1 (1.08%) Go
10 1 (1.08%) PHP
10 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (27.96%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 22 (23.66%) Degree
4 16 (17.20%) Master's Degree
4 16 (17.20%) PhD
5 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (23.66%) QA
2 6 (6.45%) JTAG
3 2 (2.15%) DO-178B
System Software
1 11 (11.83%) Firmware
2 6 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (22.58%) ESRI
2 11 (11.83%) Google
3 9 (9.68%) Guidewire
4 5 (5.38%) Microsoft