Software Engineer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Software Engineer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Software Engineer salary in Northern Ireland is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 24 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 -15 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 35 65 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.99% 10.73% 21.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.13% 10.98% 22.42%
Number of salaries quoted 18 16 5
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,375 -
25th Percentile £46,563 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +20.00% +48.15%
75th Percentile £95,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £66,250 £79,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 491 592 932
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.00% 97.69% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 241 259 456
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,800 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.60% +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £56,525 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.79% - +4.35%

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 October 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 October 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 -2 28 £90,000 +50.00% 12
County Tyrone - 7 £45,000 -
Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 35 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (45.71%) Degree
2 16 (45.71%) Computer Science
3 12 (34.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 11 (31.43%) QA
4 11 (31.43%) Azure
4 11 (31.43%) User Stories
4 11 (31.43%) Master's Degree
4 11 (31.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (28.57%) Multithreading
5 10 (28.57%) Linux
6 9 (25.71%) Finance
6 9 (25.71%) Video\Live Streaming
6 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
7 8 (22.86%) SDLC
7 8 (22.86%) C++
8 7 (20.00%) PhD
8 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (20.00%) Docker
8 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (20.00%) Post-Production
8 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (17.14%) Sass
9 6 (17.14%) AngularJS
9 6 (17.14%) Node.js
9 6 (17.14%) TypeScript
9 6 (17.14%) Scrum
9 6 (17.14%) Firewall
9 6 (17.14%) Unix
9 6 (17.14%) Python

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 4 (11.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Adobe XD
2 3 (8.57%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (11.43%) Figma
5 1 (2.86%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (2.86%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) DNS
1 6 (17.14%) Firewall
1 6 (17.14%) IPv6
1 6 (17.14%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
1 4 (11.43%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) GitLab
General
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Electronics
4 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) AngularJS
1 6 (17.14%) HTML
1 6 (17.14%) HTML5
1 6 (17.14%) Node.js
1 6 (17.14%) Sass
2 5 (14.29%) GStreamer
3 4 (11.43%) Jest
3 4 (11.43%) RESTful
3 4 (11.43%) WebdriverIO
3 4 (11.43%) WebRTC
4 3 (8.57%) Spring
5 1 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (2.86%) JMS
5 1 (2.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Video\Live Streaming
2 5 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (8.57%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (5.71%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (45.71%) Computer Science
3 12 (34.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 11 (31.43%) User Stories
5 10 (28.57%) Multithreading
6 8 (22.86%) SDLC
7 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (20.00%) Post-Production
7 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.14%) Information Security
8 6 (17.14%) Integration Testing
8 6 (17.14%) Scrum
8 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
8 6 (17.14%) Unit Testing
9 5 (14.29%) Asynchronous Programming
9 5 (14.29%) Fintech
9 5 (14.29%) Low Latency
9 5 (14.29%) Multithreaded Programming
9 5 (14.29%) Open Source
9 5 (14.29%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) C++
2 6 (17.14%) Python
2 6 (17.14%) TypeScript
3 5 (14.29%) Bash
3 5 (14.29%) C#
3 5 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (8.57%) C
5 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) Degree
2 11 (31.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (31.43%) Master's Degree
3 7 (20.00%) PhD
4 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (5.71%) Veracode
3 1 (2.86%) Solace
3 1 (2.86%) Sybase