Developer Jobs in Belfast

Developer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Developer salary in Belfast is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 109 305 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 19.75% 40.72% 41.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.64% 43.20% 42.42%
Number of salaries quoted 80 247 93
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,500 £65,000 £62,250
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Belfast. 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 Belfast with a recognized job title 528 706 462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.65% 94.26% 98.30%
Number of salaries quoted 272 404 260
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,475
25th Percentile £39,473 £37,250 £34,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,138 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £89,750 £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%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Belfast

Developer
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Developer in Belfast

Developer
Salary Histogram in Belfast

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

Salary histogram for Developer in Belfast

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Developer 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 Belfast region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 38 (34.86%) C#
2 33 (30.28%) .NET
3 26 (23.85%) Azure
3 26 (23.85%) AWS
4 22 (20.18%) SQL
5 19 (17.43%) Software Engineering
6 18 (16.51%) Entity Framework
6 18 (16.51%) .NET Framework
7 16 (14.68%) Full Stack Development
8 15 (13.76%) Microservices
8 15 (13.76%) Microsoft
9 14 (12.84%) SQL Server
10 13 (11.93%) Social Skills
10 13 (11.93%) Actionable Insight
11 12 (11.01%) .NET Core
11 12 (11.01%) ASP.NET Web API
11 12 (11.01%) JavaScript
11 12 (11.01%) Oracle
11 12 (11.01%) Social Network
11 12 (11.01%) Unit Testing
12 11 (10.09%) Artificial Intelligence
12 11 (10.09%) Web Development
12 11 (10.09%) Migration
12 11 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (9.17%) DevOps
13 10 (9.17%) Front End Development
13 10 (9.17%) Secure Coding
13 10 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (9.17%) Agile
13 10 (9.17%) Performance Tuning

Developer Skill Set
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 4 (3.67%) CMS
2 1 (0.92%) Mendix
2 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.92%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 26 (23.85%) AWS
1 26 (23.85%) Azure
2 8 (7.34%) SaaS
3 6 (5.50%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.83%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.92%) CloudFront
6 1 (0.92%) GitHub
6 1 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.92%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.92%) PaaS
6 1 (0.92%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.92%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.92%) Serverless
6 1 (0.92%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.26%) Oracle Database
3 9 (8.26%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.92%) Flink
5 1 (0.92%) GIS
5 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.92%) MySQL
5 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.92%) Power BI
5 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
1 1 (0.92%) Git
1 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.92%) PHPUnit
1 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (11.93%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.42%) Music Industry
3 4 (3.67%) Finance
4 1 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.92%) Banking
4 1 (0.92%) Games
4 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (0.92%) Law
4 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (30.28%) .NET
2 18 (16.51%) .NET Framework
2 18 (16.51%) Entity Framework
3 12 (11.01%) .NET Core
3 12 (11.01%) ASP.NET Web API
4 9 (8.26%) React
5 7 (6.42%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.50%) Ruby on Rails
7 5 (4.59%) Blazor
7 5 (4.59%) jQuery
8 4 (3.67%) ASP.NET
8 4 (3.67%) CSS
8 4 (3.67%) Laravel
8 4 (3.67%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (2.75%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (2.75%) Express.js
9 3 (2.75%) HTML
9 3 (2.75%) Node.js
9 3 (2.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Social Network
2 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.92%) Blockchain
3 1 (0.92%) IoT
3 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.92%) Operational Technology
3 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.92%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Linux
2 2 (1.83%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (17.43%) Software Engineering
2 16 (14.68%) Full Stack Development
3 15 (13.76%) Microservices
4 13 (11.93%) Actionable Insight
5 12 (11.01%) Unit Testing
6 11 (10.09%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (10.09%) Migration
6 11 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (10.09%) Web Development
7 10 (9.17%) Agile
7 10 (9.17%) DevOps
7 10 (9.17%) Front End Development
7 10 (9.17%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (9.17%) Secure Coding
8 9 (8.26%) Data Migration
9 8 (7.34%) Containerisation
10 7 (6.42%) E-Commerce
10 7 (6.42%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.42%) SDLC
11 6 (5.50%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.86%) C#
2 22 (20.18%) SQL
3 12 (11.01%) JavaScript
4 9 (8.26%) PL/SQL
5 8 (7.34%) Java
5 8 (7.34%) Ruby
6 4 (3.67%) PHP
7 2 (1.83%) Scala
7 2 (1.83%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.92%) Perl
8 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.92%) Python
8 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
1 8 (7.34%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.59%) Degree
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.83%) Terraform
2 1 (0.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.01%) Oracle
3 6 (5.50%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.92%) Quadient
4 1 (0.92%) Sybase