SDLC Jobs in Northern Ireland

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 63 55
Rank change year-on-year +21 -8 -22
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 34 33 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.51% 3.97% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 4.15% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10 24 16
10th Percentile £42,500 - £31,500
25th Percentile £42,813 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -2.13% +46.88%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile - - £76,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,800 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.32% -2.72% +9.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

SDLC 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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 658 796 616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 87.27% 95.79% 90.32%
Number of salaries quoted 314 434 351
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £70,525 £65,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Northern Ireland

SDLC
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Northern Ireland

SDLC
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 SDLC within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +16 31 £57,500 - 11
County Tyrone - 3 £47,500 - 1
SDLC
UK

SDLC
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 (11.76%) WebLogic
2 3 (8.82%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) AWS
2 11 (32.35%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) GitHub
4 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) BGP
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
1 4 (11.76%) SSL
1 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) RDBMS
2 5 (14.71%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (11.76%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Cucumber
2 2 (5.88%) VectorCAST
3 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) PHPUnit
3 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Avionics
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Presales Manager
1 13 (38.24%) Project Manager
2 10 (29.41%) Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Lead
4 4 (11.76%) Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Lead Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Software Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.82%) .NET Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) Spring Boot
2 7 (20.59%) .NET
3 6 (17.65%) AngularJS
4 5 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 4 (11.76%) Web Services
6 3 (8.82%) .NET Core
6 3 (8.82%) .NET Framework
6 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (8.82%) CSS
6 3 (8.82%) Entity Framework
6 3 (8.82%) HTML
6 3 (8.82%) HTML5
6 3 (8.82%) J2EE
6 3 (8.82%) jQuery
6 3 (8.82%) JSP
6 3 (8.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 1 (2.94%) Laravel
7 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.82%) Media Streaming
2 3 (8.82%) Social Network
3 2 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
1 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Solaris
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) Agile
2 20 (58.82%) Project Management
3 17 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
4 13 (38.24%) Agile Project Management
4 13 (38.24%) Presales
4 13 (38.24%) Project Delivery
4 13 (38.24%) Software Delivery
5 9 (26.47%) Microservices
6 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
7 6 (17.65%) MVC
8 5 (14.71%) API Development
9 4 (11.76%) ArchiMate
9 4 (11.76%) BDD
9 4 (11.76%) Data Migration
9 4 (11.76%) Kanban
9 4 (11.76%) Migration
9 4 (11.76%) Open Source
9 4 (11.76%) Re-Platforming
9 4 (11.76%) Scrum
9 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) C#
2 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.65%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) Ada
4 2 (5.88%) Ada 83
4 2 (5.88%) C
5 1 (2.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
1 4 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (11.76%) Azure Certification
1 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) DO-178B
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle
1 4 (11.76%) Sparx