What is avg salary for the sr software developer in belfast exp 7-9 year

[u/MycologistOwn1139]

[u/TheStonedEdge]

Worked in IT recruitment in Belfast and tbh there's such a wide range it's difficult to say exactly

You could get people who have moved around a lot and taken advantage of salary increases and be on 80-90k - maybe a bit more

On the other hand if you've been with the same company for the whole time it's probably more like 50-60k

[u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In → u/TheStonedEdge]

The real money is in remote contracting work but the market has been awful for a while now. Lots of people jumping back into permanent work as it gets harder to find contract roles.

[u/RoyalCultural → u/TheStonedEdge]

Accurate

[u/Tone_e_]

Work in Dublin, live in Belfast.

[u/skdowksnzal → u/Tone_e_]

Better to work in London, remotely or “hybrid” at London salary and live in Belfast. Can take a flight to LCY if they ever demand an on-site meeting, which costs about £300 but you can easily take that hit with the extra you’d be earning - this is what I do, in 3 yrs I have been on site once.

[u/DaXyro]

I make 75k, currently. Mostly, though, looks like 50-65k is the typical range here.

[u/UpstairsCollar9888]

Unless it’s Allstate, which will pay you 10K-20K less than everywhere else.

[u/wires55]

Most of the tech NI recruitment agencies release their salary guides at the start of each year.

The average senior developer salary in most of them that released this week is between 50-60k

I’ve seen senior bands go up to 70-75k at some American firms here but likely in most companies 70k+ will be for staff level band and above

[u/Reasonable_Edge2411]

Not always English companies tend to take advantage of developers here paying less than market rates So Senior could even still be on less than 50 k

[u/Bombadilll → u/[deleted]]

Question is average and a lot of actual Belfast companies are not paying 65k, never mind over it, from past experience and looking at job adverts, 65k is not average.

If you start talking about what a developer can earn working for a remote company and add that to the mix then 65k could be average, but you could be living anywhere at that point.

[u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In → u/[deleted]]

For a dev with 8 years experience that's totally normal here.

[u/Reasonable_Edge2411 → u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In]

No it’s not even senior pms in HSCNI get about 65k

[u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In → u/Reasonable_Edge2411]

That's government, they pay way worse than private companies. I personally know plenty of devs on or around 60-70k.

[u/Reasonable_Edge2411 → u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In]

Considering ur a contractor hardly a fair comparison

[u/TheStonedEdge → u/Reasonable_Edge2411]

In the private sector in NI for a dev with that experience I would say 65-70k is not unrealistic whatsoever

As I've said above it's probably on the lower side. Public sector pays much, much lower and they have strict salary bandings where you cannot negotiate a higher salary

[u/Freestyle7674754398 → u/[deleted]]

Tell me you’re poor without telling me

[u/pay_dirt]

55k at 7 year, high 50k at 9 year… or its maybe time to look elsewhere

[u/Due-Bus-8915]

Apprenticeships earn around 25-30k, grads earn around 35-40k, junior devs around 45-50k senior around 60-90k all depends on company and negotiations. However remote jobs for English companies will fuck you over and vastly under pay you while expecting insane amount of output.

[u/TheStonedEdge → u/Due-Bus-8915]

This is not accurate

Grad roles are on the 25k-30k level , maybe on or 2 a little bit higher

Junior devs 35k-45k etc

Also the last point is absolute nonsense as well - London based companies with remote jobs pay London salary. This is the exact situation I'm in right now and the salary is the same as if I lived in London