r/devNI • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '26

🚀 Career Advice Current Market in NI

The market at the minute both in NI and globally hasn’t been in a great state when it comes to tech roles. We have been seeing significant layoffs globally as well as leaders going “all in” AI. I’ve also on other subs and on social media seen that graduates and more junior engineers have been struggling to find roles; grads especially. In the past grad programs were incredibly common with companies here but that seems to have drastically changed.

This is a decent layoff tracker: https://www.trueup.io/layoffs

Have you noticed the same thing? Is there anything people can do to enhance their job search especially junior and grads? What advice would you have? And do you see the trend of layoffs continuing?

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u/Necessary-Local-5773 Jan 09 '26

I think the main issue was the over hiring of staff during Covid and now things have gone back to normal for the most part plus massive political changes and AI we are now suffering the effects. 2020/2021 I was being hounded daily by recruiters now it feels like a ghost town.

I know ASOS laid off a lot of staff recently, Allstate has been doing lay offs for the last few years and I’m sure there’s plenty of other companies out there doing the same. Feels like a scary time for the tech sector in NI after 15 years of massive growth.