Permanent, full-time employment in the industry and services sectors: Software Developers or Computer Programming, in 2025, is related to the Annual Employment Survey 2024.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT): The total number of people in Ireland in 2024, working in the ICT sector, was 136,686, 109,031 in foreign-owned firms and 27,655 in Irish companies.
Software Developers / Computer Programming in total had 42,384 people in the year.
Irish-owned firms in 2024 had a total number of people of 2,528 in programming.
Foreign-owned companies that are mainly American and have facilities in Ireland had a total headcount of 39,836.
Total permanent, full-time employment in Government agency-assisted companies operating in all
sectors amounted to 504,831 in 2024.
Among foreign-owned companies, total permanent, full-time employment reached 299,059 in 2024, representing a 2,237-job increase (0.8%) over the previous year and the highest employment level recorded during 10 years.
Total permanent, full-time employment among Irish-owned companies amounted to
205,772 in 2024.
The total of 505,000!
This is a denominator.
The total result is 8.4% ICT Employment
The 2,528 Irish result is 0.51 ICT Employment
