Developer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Developer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Developer salary in Northern Ireland is £51,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 143 344 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 20.61% 40.33% 35.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.57% 42.47% 36.79%
Number of salaries quoted 107 271 103
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,250 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £62,625 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £71,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +12.99%

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 663 810 636
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.53% 94.96% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 321 449 344
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £44,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.73% +11.88%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Northern Ireland

Developer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Developer in Northern Ireland

Developer
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in Northern Ireland

Developer
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 Developer within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 9 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 -2 133 £55,000 +10.00% 27
County Tyrone - 4 £33,500 - 6
County Armagh -2 1 £45,000 +57.89% 1
County Down -3 1 £45,000 - 1
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 60 (41.96%) C#
2 54 (37.76%) .NET
3 35 (24.48%) AWS
4 32 (22.38%) SQL
5 31 (21.68%) JavaScript
5 31 (21.68%) Social Skills
5 31 (21.68%) Azure
6 29 (20.28%) SQL Server
7 27 (18.88%) CSS
7 27 (18.88%) .NET Framework
8 26 (18.18%) Microsoft
8 26 (18.18%) HTML
8 26 (18.18%) Entity Framework
9 25 (17.48%) .NET Core
9 25 (17.48%) Web Development
10 23 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (15.38%) Software Engineering
12 21 (14.69%) jQuery
13 18 (12.59%) E-Commerce
13 18 (12.59%) Full Stack Development
13 18 (12.59%) Front End Development
14 17 (11.89%) ASP.NET Web API
14 17 (11.89%) Actionable Insight
15 16 (11.19%) MVC
16 15 (10.49%) Ruby
16 15 (10.49%) React
16 15 (10.49%) AngularJS
17 14 (9.79%) Agile
18 13 (9.09%) Ruby on Rails
19 12 (8.39%) Music Industry

Developer 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 10 (6.99%) CMS
2 4 (2.80%) WordPress
3 2 (1.40%) SAS
3 2 (1.40%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Mendix
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Adobe Illustrator
1 6 (4.20%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 35 (24.48%) AWS
2 31 (21.68%) Azure
3 9 (6.29%) SaaS
4 6 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.70%) CloudFront
7 1 (0.70%) GitHub
7 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.70%) PaaS
7 1 (0.70%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.70%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.70%) Serverless
7 1 (0.70%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.28%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.29%) Oracle Database
4 9 (6.29%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.70%) Flink
5 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.70%) MySQL
5 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.70%) Power BI
5 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.40%) Git
2 2 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.70%) JIRA
3 1 (0.70%) PHPUnit
General
1 31 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.39%) Music Industry
3 7 (4.90%) Finance
4 6 (4.20%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.20%) Retail
5 4 (2.80%) Tech for Good
6 1 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.70%) Banking
6 1 (0.70%) Games
6 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.70%) Law
6 1 (0.70%) Marketing
6 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.70%) Police
6 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (37.76%) .NET
2 27 (18.88%) .NET Framework
2 27 (18.88%) CSS
3 26 (18.18%) Entity Framework
3 26 (18.18%) HTML
4 25 (17.48%) .NET Core
5 21 (14.69%) jQuery
6 17 (11.89%) ASP.NET Web API
7 15 (10.49%) AngularJS
7 15 (10.49%) React
8 13 (9.09%) Ruby on Rails
9 12 (8.39%) ASP.NET
9 12 (8.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 12 (8.39%) Web Services
10 10 (6.99%) Blazor
11 9 (6.29%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (4.20%) HTML5
12 6 (4.20%) WCF
13 5 (3.50%) ASP.NET MVC 5
14 4 (2.80%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.29%) Social Network
2 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.10%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.40%) CMDB
3 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.70%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.70%) IoT
4 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.70%) Media Streaming
4 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.70%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.10%) Linux
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (17.48%) Web Development
2 23 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 18 (12.59%) E-Commerce
4 18 (12.59%) Front End Development
4 18 (12.59%) Full Stack Development
5 17 (11.89%) Actionable Insight
6 16 (11.19%) MVC
7 14 (9.79%) Agile
8 12 (8.39%) DevOps
8 12 (8.39%) Mentoring
8 12 (8.39%) Microservices
9 11 (7.69%) Containerisation
9 11 (7.69%) Migration
9 11 (7.69%) SDLC
9 11 (7.69%) Unit Testing
10 10 (6.99%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (6.99%) End-to-End Testing
10 10 (6.99%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (6.99%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 60 (41.96%) C#
2 32 (22.38%) SQL
3 31 (21.68%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.49%) Ruby
5 9 (6.29%) Java
5 9 (6.29%) PL/SQL
6 7 (4.90%) PHP
7 5 (3.50%) C
8 2 (1.40%) Scala
8 2 (1.40%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.70%) Perl
9 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.70%) Python
9 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (6.99%) SC Cleared
1 10 (6.99%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.29%) Degree
3 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.20%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.39%) Oracle
3 6 (4.20%) Autodesk
4 3 (2.10%) Adobe
5 2 (1.40%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.70%) Sybase