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 31 May 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 31 62
Rank change year-on-year +12 +31 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 72 84 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.57% 10.11% 3.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.01% 10.67% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 21 23 13
10th Percentile £62,500 £43,750 -
25th Percentile £82,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +4.35% +53.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £68,000 £66,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +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 719 787 655
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.61% 94.71% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 353 447 365
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £69,400 £65,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 31 May 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 31 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 +13 68 £90,000 +50.00% 17
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 31 May 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 72 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 44 (61.11%) Python
3 38 (52.78%) Agile
4 32 (44.44%) AWS
4 32 (44.44%) DevOps
4 32 (44.44%) React
5 31 (43.06%) Azure
6 29 (40.28%) Actionable Insight
6 29 (40.28%) Security Cleared
6 29 (40.28%) JavaScript
6 29 (40.28%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (38.89%) GIS
7 28 (38.89%) ESRI
7 28 (38.89%) ArcGIS
7 28 (38.89%) SC Cleared
7 28 (38.89%) Web Development
7 28 (38.89%) QGIS
7 28 (38.89%) GeoServer
7 28 (38.89%) OpenLayers
7 28 (38.89%) PostGIS
7 28 (38.89%) Leaflet
8 27 (37.50%) .NET Core
8 27 (37.50%) .NET
9 24 (33.33%) CSS
10 19 (26.39%) C#
11 15 (20.83%) Linux
11 15 (20.83%) QA
12 13 (18.06%) Open Source
13 12 (16.67%) Java
13 12 (16.67%) 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 (38.89%) ArcGIS
1 28 (38.89%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 32 (44.44%) AWS
2 31 (43.06%) Azure
3 5 (6.94%) SaaS
4 4 (5.56%) Serverless
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.39%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (40.28%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (38.89%) GIS
2 28 (38.89%) QGIS
3 7 (9.72%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.39%) Flink
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.78%) VectorCAST
3 1 (1.39%) Git
3 1 (1.39%) JDeveloper
General
1 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Electronics
4 2 (2.78%) Avionics
4 2 (2.78%) Finance
4 2 (2.78%) Military
4 2 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (44.44%) React
2 28 (38.89%) Leaflet
2 28 (38.89%) OpenLayers
2 28 (38.89%) PostGIS
3 27 (37.50%) .NET
3 27 (37.50%) .NET Core
4 24 (33.33%) CSS
5 11 (15.28%) REST
5 11 (15.28%) Web Services
6 7 (9.72%) Node.js
7 6 (8.33%) SOAP
8 5 (6.94%) Django
8 5 (6.94%) FFmpeg
8 5 (6.94%) GStreamer
8 5 (6.94%) OpenCV
9 3 (4.17%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (4.17%) Vue
10 2 (2.78%) Spring
10 2 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Video\Live Streaming
2 9 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.78%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.83%) Linux
2 11 (15.28%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.78%) Solaris
4 2 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 38 (52.78%) Agile
3 32 (44.44%) DevOps
4 29 (40.28%) Actionable Insight
5 28 (38.89%) Web Development
6 13 (18.06%) Open Source
7 11 (15.28%) Asynchronous Programming
7 11 (15.28%) Computer Science
7 11 (15.28%) Multithreading
8 10 (13.89%) Analytics
8 10 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (13.89%) Video Analytics
9 9 (12.50%) Customer Experience
9 9 (12.50%) Digital Customer Experience
10 8 (11.11%) Architectural Design
11 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (8.33%) Batch Processing
13 5 (6.94%) Computer Vision
13 5 (6.94%) Epics
13 5 (6.94%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 44 (61.11%) Python
2 29 (40.28%) JavaScript
3 19 (26.39%) C#
4 12 (16.67%) Bash
4 12 (16.67%) Java
5 8 (11.11%) C
6 7 (9.72%) Perl
7 3 (4.17%) Ruby
7 3 (4.17%) SQL
8 2 (2.78%) Ada
8 2 (2.78%) Ada 83
9 1 (1.39%) C++
9 1 (1.39%) Go
9 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (40.28%) Security Cleared
2 28 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.28%) Degree
4 5 (6.94%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.94%) PhD
5 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.83%) QA
2 6 (8.33%) JTAG
3 2 (2.78%) DO-178B
System Software
1 11 (15.28%) Firmware
2 5 (6.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (38.89%) ESRI
2 9 (12.50%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle