Belfast is the world's number one destination for US cybersecurity foreign direct investment. The city's expertise is anchored by the Centre for Secure Information Technologies at Queen's University Belfast, a globally recognised cybersecurity centre of excellence, and international firms including IBM Security, Allstate, Citi, and Aflac have all chosen to base cybersecurity operations here, alongside more than 100 specialist security companies employing thousands of people within a few miles of the city centre. A mobile app built in Belfast sits inside a market where security is not a checkbox at the end of a project, it is the reason global companies chose this city in the first place.
That engineering ambition has deep roots. The Harland & Wolff shipyard on Belfast's Queen's Island was, in the early 1900s, the largest and most advanced shipbuilding operation in the world, employing over 15,000 workers and constructing the Olympic-class liners under a purpose-built gantry that was itself the largest in the world at the time. That same site is now Titanic Quarter, home to Belfast's Innovation District, where the city's ambition for large-scale, exacting engineering has simply changed its material, from steel to software.
Akoode works with Belfast-based founders, CTOs, and product teams who want mobile engineering held to that same security-first discipline. Our teams have delivered across FCA workflows, NHS Digital standards, and enterprise security requirements, building native and cross-platform mobile apps across Belfast and the wider UK mobile app development market that meet App Store and Play Store expectations from day one.
