Analytics Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Analytics
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 16 29
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 5 13 1
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 2.34% 8.02% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 9.70% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £578 - -
25th Percentile £600 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £658 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% - -
75th Percentile £779 £538 -
90th Percentile £904 £605 -
County Antrim median daily rate £658 £525 -
% change year-on-year +25.24% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 191 134 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 89.25% 82.72% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 60 72
10th Percentile £266 £145 £200
25th Percentile £325 £166 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +15.63% -19.92%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £533
90th Percentile £638 £628 £636
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £463 £400
% change year-on-year +2.70% +15.63% -19.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 14 11
10th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.60 - £12.74
Median hourly rate £15.67 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -35.22% +79.64% +31.70%
75th Percentile £17.30 - £13.91
90th Percentile £24.50 £37.88 £16.00
County Antrim median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.69
% change year-on-year -28.45% +76.69% +33.90%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Analytics job vacancy trend in Belfast

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Belfast over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Belfast

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Analytics

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Impala
1 3 (60.00%) KDB
1 3 (60.00%) Kdb+
1 3 (60.00%) Tableau
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) GIS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) KDB Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Data Cleansing
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Decision Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Fujitsu
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft