Degree Jobs in Northern Ireland

Academic Degree
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 17 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -12
Permanent jobs citing Degree 108 137 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.32% 15.73% 11.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.00% 51.31% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 36 47 44
10th Percentile £22,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,625 £35,625 £33,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -10.53% +35.71%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £62,938
90th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £102,250
UK median annual salary £52,285 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +7.73% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 240 267 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 34.04% 30.65% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 73 77 81
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,050 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,063 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -3.41% +25.71%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,500 £75,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Northern Ireland

Degree
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Degree in Northern Ireland

Degree
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in Northern Ireland

Degree
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 Degree within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 18 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 +3 77 £41,000 -6.29% 42
County Armagh - 14 £50,000 - 2
County Down +6 9 £37,500 - 2
County Londonderry +4 6 - -
County Tyrone - 2 £45,000 - 1
Degree
UK

Degree
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 7 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.85%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (15.74%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (12.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (6.48%) InfoPath
5 6 (5.56%) UserZoom
6 5 (4.63%) MS Visio
7 3 (2.78%) Adobe XD
7 3 (2.78%) InVision
7 3 (2.78%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) SAP MM
1 3 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.67%) AWS
2 17 (15.74%) Azure
3 11 (10.19%) Cloud Computing
4 10 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.48%) OneDrive
6 5 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.78%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.78%) Figma
7 3 (2.78%) GCP
7 3 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.78%) Route 53
7 3 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.85%) Miro
8 2 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (18.52%) TCP/IP
2 15 (13.89%) HTTP
3 8 (7.41%) Firewall
3 8 (7.41%) MQTT
4 7 (6.48%) FTP
5 6 (5.56%) Internet
5 6 (5.56%) Wireshark
6 5 (4.63%) LAN
7 3 (2.78%) Network Security
7 3 (2.78%) VPN
7 3 (2.78%) WAN
7 3 (2.78%) Wireless
8 2 (1.85%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.85%) WLAN
9 1 (0.93%) DNS
9 1 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.48%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.85%) Power BI
5 2 (1.85%) Tableau
6 1 (0.93%) Big Data
6 1 (0.93%) MySQL
6 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.78%) GCC
2 3 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 57 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 30 (27.78%) Manufacturing
3 21 (19.44%) Pharmaceutical
4 19 (17.59%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (17.59%) Finance
5 17 (15.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (14.81%) Retail
7 12 (11.11%) Telecoms
8 10 (9.26%) Electronics
8 10 (9.26%) Law
9 9 (8.33%) Legal
10 8 (7.41%) Banking
10 8 (7.41%) Public Sector
11 4 (3.70%) Marketing
12 2 (1.85%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.85%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (17.59%) Senior
2 13 (12.04%) Lead
3 11 (10.19%) Architect
3 11 (10.19%) Software Engineer
4 9 (8.33%) Developer
4 9 (8.33%) QA Leader
5 8 (7.41%) Software Architect
6 7 (6.48%) Analyst
6 7 (6.48%) Consultant
6 7 (6.48%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Project Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) QA Specialist
8 5 (4.63%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Software Developer
8 5 (4.63%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.67%) Node.js
2 13 (12.04%) Web Services
3 12 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 10 (9.26%) HTML
5 8 (7.41%) Kafka
5 8 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (7.41%) RESTful
6 7 (6.48%) COM
6 7 (6.48%) HTML5
7 5 (4.63%) FFmpeg
7 5 (4.63%) GStreamer
7 5 (4.63%) OpenCV
7 5 (4.63%) REST
8 4 (3.70%) Express.js
9 3 (2.78%) CSS
10 2 (1.85%) React
11 1 (0.93%) EDI
11 1 (0.93%) IDoc
11 1 (0.93%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) Video\Live Streaming
2 8 (7.41%) IoT
3 5 (4.63%) FMCG
3 5 (4.63%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) CCTV
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.93%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.81%) Linux
2 14 (12.96%) Windows
3 11 (10.19%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (4.63%) Unix
5 3 (2.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (40.74%) Computer Science
3 20 (18.52%) Mentoring
4 19 (17.59%) Process Improvement
4 19 (17.59%) Software Engineering
5 16 (14.81%) Agile
5 16 (14.81%) Commercialisation
5 16 (14.81%) OO
5 16 (14.81%) OOP
6 15 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (13.89%) Root Cause Analysis
6 15 (13.89%) Threat Analysis
7 14 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (12.96%) Open Source
8 13 (12.04%) Analytics
8 13 (12.04%) Computer Vision
8 13 (12.04%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (12.04%) Deep Learning
8 13 (12.04%) Project Management
9 11 (10.19%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.15%) Python
2 14 (12.96%) Bash
2 14 (12.96%) SQL
3 7 (6.48%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.48%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.56%) C
4 6 (5.56%) Perl
5 5 (4.63%) C++
6 4 (3.70%) Bicep
6 4 (3.70%) C#
6 4 (3.70%) R
7 2 (1.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.93%) ABAP
8 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (20.37%) Master's Degree
2 19 (17.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (12.04%) PhD
4 12 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 10 (9.26%) SC Cleared
6 7 (6.48%) AWS Certification
6 7 (6.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.78%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.85%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.93%) CCNA
10 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.93%) MBA
10 1 (0.93%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (31.48%) QA
2 6 (5.56%) JTAG
3 5 (4.63%) GMP
4 3 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.78%) WCAG
5 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (10.19%) Firmware
2 8 (7.41%) Docker
3 3 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.48%) Terraform
3 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (28.70%) Google
2 17 (15.74%) Microsoft
3 16 (14.81%) SAP
4 6 (5.56%) Qualtrics
5 4 (3.70%) VMware
6 3 (2.78%) Ciena
7 2 (1.85%) Cisco
7 2 (1.85%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.85%) Meraki
7 2 (1.85%) Thales
8 1 (0.93%) CA
8 1 (0.93%) Datto
8 1 (0.93%) Kaseya
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle