Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Analytical Skills
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +16
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 16 42 33
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 6.78% 23.86% 23.08%
As % of the General category 12.12% 32.31% 28.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 26
10th Percentile £313 £235 £126
25th Percentile £369 £300 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £275
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +63.64% -35.29%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £458
90th Percentile £629 £581 £520
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.10 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% - -
75th Percentile £28.22 £32.94 -
90th Percentile £34.95 £42.75 -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £24.18 £33.00
% change year-on-year +34.41% -26.73% -5.71%

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 132 130 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 55.93% 73.86% 81.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 55 72
10th Percentile £160 £144 £163
25th Percentile £313 £184 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £445
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -4.49% -3.78%
75th Percentile £575 £522 £536
90th Percentile £641 £584 £636
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 11
10th Percentile £12.31 - £11.08
25th Percentile £13.57 £15.48 £12.74
Median hourly rate £15.42 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -36.25% +79.64% -13.16%
75th Percentile £25.00 £28.17 £16.06
90th Percentile £26.80 £75.85 £18.00
UK median hourly rate £23.54 £27.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% -17.27% +32.00%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Northern Ireland

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Northern Ireland

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim -13 15 £525 +18.31% 10
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Mart
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Impala
1 1 (6.25%) KDB
1 1 (6.25%) Kdb+
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
General
1 15 (93.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (56.25%) Finance
3 6 (37.50%) Front Office
4 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
5 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.25%) Back Office
6 1 (6.25%) Legal
6 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) ERP Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Developer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Murex Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Procurement Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Project Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Risk Manager
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) JMS
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
1 1 (6.25%) Murex MxML
1 1 (6.25%) Pandas
1 1 (6.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Equities
2 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
5 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) People Management
5 2 (12.50%) Programme Management
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
6 1 (6.25%) Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (6.25%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) HND
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 2 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (6.25%) EMIR
2 1 (6.25%) MiFID
2 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Murex
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Workday