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IT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey July ‘19 1
IT JOBS MARKET DUBLIN
Salary Survey April ‘20
CONTENTS 1. About Archer 3. Market Overview 4. Java Development 6. .NET Development 8. Business Intelligence & Data Analytics 10. JavaScript Development 12. Python, Ruby & PHP Development 14. C++ Development 16. Business Analysis & Product 18. Project & Programme Management 20. Senior Appointments 22. QA and Software Testing 24. Systems Administration 26. DevOps, SRE & Cloud Engineering 28. IT Support 30. Our Team
1 ABOUT ARCHER Archer’s consultants are experts in recruiting in their specialist sector of the IT market in Dublin. Our laser focus on the niches that we focus on means that our consultants have an in-depth knowledge of the market and that keen insight forms the foundation for everything we do. Our team shares a common goal: to unite the top IT employers in Dublin with the best IT talent. We have created this Salary Survey to share our insight into the market with candidates and hiring teams to help them make their next career move or to improve their recruitment process. Let’s talk If you would like further insight on any aspect of our Salary Survey, then why not get in touch? Our consultants are on hand to help. Simply contact us on +353 1 649 8500 or info@archer.ie
2 Archer Recruitment is a recruitment consultancy with a difference.
IT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20 3
MARKET OVERVIEW
The coronavirus pandemic and the We’ve seen a quick shift from a
market where there was fierce
There is still a significant amount of
hiring happening in the Dublin
resulting economic uncertainty have competition between companies to
hire highly skilled IT candidates, to
market, and we expect a very
significant uptick as soon as offices
brought about sudden, significant one where there are much fewer reopen. Many companies have
available opportunities, and “pressed pause” on recruitment
changes in the IT Jobs market in unfortunately a larger number of until then for logistics reasons, with
people on the market (due to their hiring plans remaining intact
Dublin. We have experienced strong redundancies, uncertain prospects in long term.
their current company etc.) While it
growth over the last 5 years, which has is too early to see the impact this will Companies who haven’t
experienced financial impact from
led to steadily increasing salaries, skills have on compensation levels, it is
likely that market average salaries the crisis are finding that now is an
excellent time to hire great talent.
shortages in certain areas (particularly and daily rates will drop over time.
People are readily available to
software engineering) and excellent Companies have adapted incredibly
quickly to the evolving
participate in remote interview
processes, there is less
availability of career opportunities for circumstances of the crisis,
particularly in relation to recruitment,
competition in the market, and
some really talented people are
candidates. Coming into Q2 of 2020 onboarding and remote working. On available for a career move.
site interviews disappeared Organisations in sectors more
we’re dealing with a very different set overnight, companies have directly affected financially (e.g.
developed the capability to onboard travel, retail) have shelved
of circumstances. people remotely and entire teams recruitment plans and in some
are working remotely. cases are looking at cost cutting
measures instead.
We are all looking forward to
seeing “things go back to normal”.
Until that happens, adaptable,
flexible people and organisations
are at a distinct advantage.IT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20 4
JAVA DEVELOPMENT
Some companies have pressed Companies hiring in this sector are
We are now in the midst of the pause on recruitment, and others those that are in industries that are
coronavirus pandemic, which has have shelved hiring plans altogether.
Many organisations in the market
less affected by coronavirus and
ones that have a high degree of
resulted in substantial changes in the are still hiring, with good quality roles
available for people. The volume is
financial security. These companies
are looking for versatile candidates
market over a short space of time. lower than earlier in the year, but we who can solve new problems, learn
can expect an upswing once offices new technologies and adapt to
Companies have adapted quickly – are open again later in the year. changing environments quickly.
almost all recruitment processes are Salaries have stayed relatively In terms of job seeking, candidates
steady over the last 6 months, while are searching for opportunities
now being conducted fully remotely, we’ve seen a slight increase in where the company is financially
contractor rates. The market secure, with a clear plan around
with many companies developing the changes due to coronavirus will hiring and onboarding. As ever –
capability to onboard people remotely most likely have an effect, but it is
too early to say.
candidates look for opportunities
with clear paths for career
too. The two kinds of profiles we see the
progression and developing new
technical skills.
most demand for are back end
focused Java software engineers,
with experience building
microservices (usually cloud-based,
on AWS or Google Cloud Platform)
and fullstack java developers with
React or Angular skills. As more
organisations are adopting a
DevOps culture, we see Kubernetes
and Docker skills being highly
valued in software engineers.5
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JAVA
DEVELOPMENT BackendIT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20 6
.NET DEVELOPMENT
The .Net Developer jobs market A steady increase in salaries for Senior
Developers has transpired since our last
We have seen more demand for
developers with experience in .NET
remains good in spite of the salary survey. In 2019, 80k was the usual
ceiling for an extraordinary
Core, Azure DevOps, React and
Angular. Candidates with experience
COVID-19 crisis. The market in Senior .NET Engineer; that has creeped
completing migrations from
Monolithic to microservices
Dublin is primarily driven by up to 85k. This is for top talent – A Players
with strong technical skills combined with
Architecture are highly sought after
as many organisations continue to
technology companies – the sector the most desirable personal traits (self- undertake this journey.
starter, strong communicator, innovative
that has been able to adapt most and good at taking the lead). .Net Developers are attracted to
companies offering exposure to new
quickly to running interview One of the major transformations over the technologies; particularly with a
last year is the release of .NET Core 3 cloud/DevOps focus. Tools like
processes & on-boarding remotely. which is more efficient than previous Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure,
versions of .NET Core. It’s faster,
The number of available generally more effective. It supports the
Azure DevOps are highly sought after
by candidates.
development of desktop application
opportunities for .Net Developers software, artificial intelligence/ machine Flexible working hours and remote
has fallen a little, but there are learning and IoT apps. working options are becoming more
commonly offered, and sought after
great career moves available for by .Net Developers. As everyone is
currently working remotely, now is a
.Net Developers. great time to smooth out all the
technical and process bumps so that
you’re in a position to consider
remote working as an offering when
offices reopen.7
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.NET
DEVELOPMENT .NET DeveloperIT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20 8
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
& DATA ANALYTICS
The coronavirus crisis has Salaries have been steadily trending
upwards in data engineering and
The BI & Analytics markets in Dublin
have been growing and buoyant for
caused significant changes in data science, while staying put in
business intelligence. Although it’s
several years but companies are now
proceeding more cautiously. Office
the market over a very short too early to say, the latest
developments may mean an
closures make on-boarding new
employees tricky for some
space of time (at the time of increased pool of available organisations but companies are
candidates and therefore some adapting quickly, with more of our
writing). Some organisations reduction in market salary rates. clients developing the capability to
Other companies in this sector are on-board people remotely.
are taking a “wait and see” working remotely and have paused
approach the recruitment, as their hiring process. The companies
that are hiring are those that are
There has been strong demand for
Data Engineers with versatile skill
the situation continues to less affected financially by the crisis
and have a high degree of financial
sets. Python & AWS skills are the
most common requirements. We saw
develop, while others are security. a lot of movement for senior- level
Business Intelligence and Data
continuing recruitment plans The Data Science and Data Leaders, with a large number of
Engineering markets have been organisations making appointments
while adapting their processes. busy over the last 6 months. In Data at senior levels.
Science, we have seen more
companies building teams with deep
learning and AI capabilities. While it
is still a small niche, there has been
growth, particularly with innovative
technology companies creating new
products.9
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BUSINESSINTELLIGENCE
&DATA ANALYTICS Data ScientistIT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20
10
JAVASCRIPT
DEVELOPMENT
JavaScript Developers have seen Security has suddenly become a hot
topic for JavaScript Developers
Most Senior Level Frontend
Engineer salaries seem to have
significant growth in average salaries considering a move. They want to
understand the financial stability of a
plateaued around 90k, at the higher
end of the scale. The only increase
and daily rates in recent years, and company and their plans to deal with in salaries has been with Mid-Level
the current crisis before committing candidates with experience in the
has been one of the most “candidate to a move. Candidates in the latest frameworks/technologies
JavaScript space appear less (particularly React and Node).
driven” markets in Dublin. While some attracted to start-up companies due
to a perception of lower job security. Over the last 6 months, candidates
markets have seen recruitment slow with in-demand skill sets have
JavaScript Developers are drawn to sought significant salary increases
down significantly, we are seeing more established organisations with along with learning and career
a dedicated engineering team rather development opportunities, great
many organisations continue with than working autonomously. company culture and interesting
hiring plans for JavaScript Developers. Functional programming
technology when making a move. If
the current economic trends
understanding and experience with
Some companies have spotted an JS is becoming a more valued
continue and there are fewer
available opportunities, JavaScript
opportunity to hire “A-Player” level skillset. Many organisations are
valuing this skill over experience in
Developers that the perfect
opportunity that ticks all of these
talent that they normally would have to frameworks/libraries – which they
are usually happy for engineers with
boxes becomes harder to come by.
compete for, while others are already strong enough core JS to pick up on The most in-demand technical skills
the job. in 2020 so far have been Node,
well set up for remote working and TypeScript, React, Vue, Angular 4+,
while companies look for people to
interviewing and have been easily able also have leadership skills,
to adapt to our new situation. mentoring and strong
communication skills.11
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JAVASCRIPT
DEVELOPMENT UI EngineerIT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20
12
PYTHON, RUBY &
PHP DEVELOPMENT
Until March 2020, salaries in the However, like other areas of software
engineering, companies are continuing
Within the Ruby/ Ruby on Rails
development sector, having very good
Python, PHP and Ruby to recruit strong Python, Ruby and PHP
Developers in many cases. Generally,
experience with JavaScript and Cloud
Infrastructure are key areas that are
development spaces had all these are business critical positions in most in demand. Also, working with
companies where technology is their common libraries such as RSpec and
increased, due to the demand core product, and could quickly adapt Resque would be a must for any Ruby
their processes to running remotely. on Rails Developer.
within the Software Development
Python is becoming a key programming In this current market, candidates are
market increasing for high-quality, language in the Dublin market for its looking for the guarantee of a
ease of use and conventionality in challenging, unique and impactful
experienced developers. The regards to multiple different sectors. The project, which will offer them the
demand for skilled Python software opportunity to work with modern
coronavirus crisis is likely to result engineers has greatly increased in technology stacks but can also offer
in a plateau in market salaries and recent years. In particular, companies
look for software engineers with
them autonomy in their development
projects.
rates, with a reduction becoming experience building web applications
using frameworks like Django or Flask, Flexible working schemes are becoming
more probable the longer it and also with experience working with a popular option offered by many
companies in Ireland, which can include
cloud infrastructure.
continues. For development in PHP, the most in-
flexibility around the company’s core
hours or the availability to work from
demand skill sets are having worked home.
with modern PHP frameworks such as
Laravel and Lamina (Zend), and more
modern JavaScript frameworks such as
React or Angular, as well as CSS and
HTML. A technical skill that is becoming
more sought after is Continuous
Integration/ Continuous Deployment
practices within a commercial setting.13
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PYTHON, RUBY & PHP
DEVELOPMENT PythonIT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20 14
C++ DEVELOPMENT
C++ continues to be a stalwart Over the preceding 6 months C++
developers have had more career
Two of the candidate trends that we
have seen are, a desire to gain
technology for many organisations opportunities than the same time a
year before. The growth in demand
exposure to AI and for many C++
engineers to add strong Python
and if anything over the last 12 has resulted in both increases in
salaries by up to 10% and more
skills to their tool set.
months there has been an increase companies having to help relocate Having a genuine enthusiasm for
international candidates into the Irish the C++ language and software
in the number of vacancies in this market. engineering as a whole is a
mentality companies prize and are
specialism. It is common for The organisations that use C++ as a willing to invest in.
companies to value experience of primary software engineering
language vary across multiple
multi-threading more highly and business sectors while sharing the
common thread of need to building
knowledge of Boost libraries is also software that is stable and efficient
which includes financial services,
in demand. robotics, telecommunications
industry, semiconductor producers
and more.15
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C++
DEVELOPMENT C++ DeveloperIT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20 16
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
& PRODUCT
The Business Analysis and Many organisations have changed
or postponed hiring plans until later
Candidates demonstrating strong
client facing and Agile exposure,
Product sector was very in the year – which will most likely
mean a shift in the market to there
SaaS/Cloud experience and new
Product Development have been
competitive in Q1 2020, with high being fewer permanent opportunities particularly in demand.
for more available candidates. We
numbers of available expect more companies to hire Current benefits packages have
remained the same with Healthcare
contractors, so for Business
opportunities and many Analysts who have been considering and Pension being a priority,
switching to contracting, the right however, flexible working (from
companies going the extra mile time may present itself in the next 6 home) hours is the main attribute
candidates consider when taking on
on compensation to secure the – 12 months.
a new role.
Salaries increased in 2019, but we
talent needed. COVID-19 is sure expect them to hold steady in 2020.
to have a major impact on the
market, as in all areas.17
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BUSINESSANALYSIS
& PRODUCT BusinessIT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20 18
PROJECT & PROGRAMME
MANAGEMENT
With the influx of tech firms in Ireland, a The implementation of IR35 in the
UK this year has led to an influx of
There is a high demand for skilled
candidates. These include PMs with
war on tech talent has ensued which contractors to the Dublin market and
daily rates have remained steady.
Cloud, SaaS Project/Programme
Management, external client-facing
has resulted in a strong increase in the Digital Transformation projects has
abilities and digital transformation
experience.
number of permanent roles available become even more prevalent in the
last 6 months. Financial Services, In the current market, experienced
and increases in salaries in recent Transport/Logistics, Pharma, Health PMs are in search of opportunities
and Tech organisations are starting to own a project (start to finish),
years. We expect the coronavirus crisis to move their solutions online to work autonomously and grow their
keep up with the fast-evolving career along with a growing
to cause a swing from permanent hiring market. business. From a hiring perspective;
Project Managers with client-facing
to contract in the project and skills, entrepreneurial spirit, a
programme management space. This technical background and the ability
to bridge the gap between
has been a trend in previous technology and business are the
most in demand PM candidates.
recessions, as companies put
permanent hiring freezes in place and
bring in contractors to supplement the
team.19
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PROJECT & PROGRAMM
E MANAGEMENT ScrumIT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20 20
SENIOR
APPOINTMENTS
The first phase of the impact of the Over the last 6 months, the director
Until the start of March, there had been COVID-19 global pandemic is or head of department salaries had
continued buoyancy in senior being felt immediately with
companies broadly split into 3
seen an increase of between 5-15%.
Companies had been very focused
appointments at both a CXO level as factions of similar size. One third
have ceased recruitment
on growth and scaling so experience
in these areas was well rewarded. In
well as Head of Department & Senior immediately and for an indefinite terms of hiring, tech companies right
period of time. The second third across industry sectors had been
Management. are holding their breath but intend proactively scaling. This is now
to continue with their plans as shifting to organisations that are less
The trend towards data and cloud that normal service resumes and a
third of businesses need to
impacted by an immediate change in
consumer habits or have a business
existed in 2019 had continued with tech continue recruiting IT professionals that is insulated to changes in
for a varied number of reasons. market confidence.
organisations that either consume or The second phase will be the new
economic outlook once the Experience of scaling teams had
provide services in these domains healthcare crisis passes and it is been the most common skill being
only guesswork that paints that sought but this is likely to change for
faring well. Within the software picture. some organisations. The scale of the
engineering domain, the push towards challenge and the opportunity to put
one’s mark on things are the most
microservices had been a major focus. common reasons that senior
executives give for making a
change. Compensation packages
have to be correct at the same time.21
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SENIOR
APPOINTMENTS CTO/CIO 5 - 9 yrs. 90-140k CTO/CIO 5 - 9 yrs. 600-900
10+ yrs. 120-180k 10+ yrs. 900-1400
5 - 9 yrs. 90-120k Head of 5 - 9 yrs. 600-800
Head of
10+ yrs. 750-900
Engineering 10+ yrs. 110-150k Engineering
5 - 9 yrs. 80-110k Head of IT 5 - 9 yrs. 450-600
Head of IT
10+ yrs. 550-800
Infrastructure 10+ yrs. 90-130k Infrastructure
5 - 9 yrs. 75-90k Software 5 - 9 yrs. 450-600
Software
10+ yrs. 500-800
Development 10+ yrs. 80-130k Development
Manager Manager
5 - 9 yrs. 65-85k Infrastructure 5 - 9 yrs. 380-480
Infrastructure
10+ yrs. 450-650
Manager 10+ yrs. 80-120k ManagerIT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20 22
QA AND As more organisations adopt Agile
methodology, a collaboration
SOFTWARE TESTING As many organisations build out
their Automation function within the
Dublin market, we are seeing a
between different engineers has
never been more visible as QA
Automation Engineers, Software
growing demand for Principal/ Lead Development Engineers and
DevOps Engineers are now working
QA Software Testing continues to Automation Engineers who can
deliver both hands-on technical together within the SDLC and full
evolve, and the trend towards solutions in addition to leading a
team and devising the overall
product lifecycle. This allows
Automation Engineers to have more
automation testing has kept up over the Automation strategy. These are visibility on their work but also
upskill alongside other engineers
typically highly technical candidates
last 6 months. We are seeing a growing with a strong background in coding, and expand their technical skills,
in many cases coming from a with potential to transition their
demand for Automation Engineers and development background having career into another vertical. We
have noticed several organisations
Automation Leads to enhance transitioned to Automation QA.
transitioning from Selenium
A key element for this profile is that WebDriver to Protractor or similar
organisations’ software offerings. they must also have strong automaton tools such as Cyprus,
Automating the software test process knowledge and background in
traditional QA and Software Testing,
working with JavaScript.
The coronavirus pandemic has
allows QA Engineers to focus on new applying the fundamental principles
of Software Testing. Proven caused significant disruption in all
aspects of the product or application, experience in building out markets in one way or another, but
the long-term impacts remain to be
automation environments and
collaborating with the development frameworks is essential, working seen. In the last 12 months, salaries
had remained steady even as
with a range of tools and technology
teams to deliver better solutions for such as Selenium, Appium, companies found it challenging to
Protractor, Cyprus, in conjunction hire talented QA engineers. We
their clients. with strong coding experience with expect a reduced amount of
Java, C#, Python, JavaScript or permanent opportunities and
other. possibly an increase in the number
of contract hires made compared to
permanent.23
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QAAND
SOFTWARE TESTING
TestIT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20 24
SYSTEMS
ADMINISTRATION
Linux & Cloud Engineering are the Just as Linux has become the
default platform, Cloud Engineering
The continued demand in this
space has resulted in a steady
hottest tickets, while System is also becoming the de facto for any
company that is operating at scale.
progression in the financial
rewards. Having the opportunity to
Administrators will always need core Clearly Software companies in the work at scale and gain exposure to
SaaS domain rely heavy on these new technologies are the two
competencies such as networking technologies but equally, most biggest draws for candidates in a
businesses are coming to the same role.
and security anyone with mastery of conclusion.
Work-life balance is the other
cloud new platforms and tools has a The coronavirus is impacting all consistent comment, avoiding
areas but this that that is least excessive on-call hours and being
distinct advantage. AWS, Google affected since the underlying able to work remotely at times are
infrastructure needs to the certainly helpful when trying to
Cloud, Azure or open cloud platforms maintained. The impact of this is that attract the best talent. Benefit
such as OpenStack are all of interest. candidates that have strong
experience in these areas are
schemes typically include pension,
health insurance, bonus, stock
sought after and, in a position, to options/ long-term incentive plan
pick and choose which opportunities (LTIP).
will best meet their career goals.25
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SYSTEMS
ADMINISTRATIONIT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20 26
DEVOPS, SRE & CLOUD
ENGINEERING
DevOps, Site Reliability and Cloud We are in the midst of a game
changing trend – moving from on
The DevOps Engineering market is
more diverse, with great
Engineering are sectors that are premise to cloud based IT systems.
The pace of change in the Dublin
opportunities available in
organisations of all sizes, across
relatively new to the Dublin market, market has increased in the last 12 different sectors (the largest being
months, and the demand for Financial Services, SaaS, Fintech
and have grown substantially and candidates with strong Cloud skills and enterprise software companies).
has increased sharply (with salaries Companies look for experience of
quickly over the last 3 years. This is following). AWS, Azure and GCP are CI/CD pipeline automation with
the most sought after technologies Jenkins (or similar), cloud and
also the sector that seems to be (in that order). containers. Experience with
impacted least by the coronavirus Containerisation continues to gain in
Infrastructure as Code with tools
such as Terraform is also desirable.
popularity. Kubernetes has been
pandemic. While some companies slightly more demanded than Having said that most hiring
have paused recruitment, the market Docker, reversing the situation in
previous years.
companies are in search of
candidates with the right attitude,
remains extremely active. Most There has been significant growth in
who are willing to learn and evolve
with the continuous enhancement of
organisations quickly adapted their the Site Reliability Engineering
market in Dublin over the last 12
technology. Top organisations are
on the hunt for people who want to
hiring processes, with many months. Global software companies
continue to build SRE teams in
consistently learn new trends and
make a difference in the company.
organisations on-boarding engineers Dublin, offering very strong
compensation packages.
remotely.27
DEVOPS,SRE&
CLOUDENGINEERING
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DevOpsIT JOBSMARKET DUBLIN Salary Survey April ‘20 28
IT SUPPORT
Salaries had crept up a little (circa The enforced remote working
The ongoing transition towards 2-3%) over the last 6 months but experiment that the Irish market has
cloud services and virtual systems there is an expected softening by undergone has resulted in a pause
in many recruitment processes
5-10% as the market conditions
has been changing the IT support evolve from a growth mentality to a
while businesses work out their
needs as well as their ability to hire
area incrementally and now the consolidation approach. and on-board people remotely. We
predict that this will result in an
COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the The demand for desktop support upswing for IT support engineers as
the technology catches up.
commitment to this journey. engineers has kept an even keel
over the last 6 months. There has A need for IT support tends to be a
been an upswing for project based universal truth across nearly all
work as enterprise-scale organisations. Technical is more
organisations transition to newer user friendly now than ever before
versions of existing platforms but maintaining a consistent,
There continues to be a shift company wide technology approach
towards cloud-based solutions is important which means even
IaaS, PaaS and SaaS and IT technology companies need a
engineers with experience of these competent IT support function.
are more in demand.
A strong sense of the customer
(internal or external) remains the
‘must-have’ soft skill that most tech
and software companies consider
when hunting for top-quality
candidates. However, exposure to
newer technology and learning new
skills combined with some degree
of flexibility seem to be the
preferred features for candidates.29
ITSUPPORT
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