Analytics Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Analytics
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 18 28
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 5 15 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.98% 7.81% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 9.93% 0.68%
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 -
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 228 151 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 90.48% 78.65% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 68 79
10th Percentile £254 £147 £195
25th Percentile £325 £169 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +18.75% -18.37%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £529
90th Percentile £638 £650 £628
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 17 12
10th Percentile £12.55 £21.19 £11.19
25th Percentile £14.25 - £12.98
Median hourly rate £17.15 £24.18 £13.69
Median % change year-on-year -29.07% +76.69% +29.13%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.25 £14.43
90th Percentile - £43.00 £17.80
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.52% -7.06% +30.61%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Northern Ireland

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Analytics

Analytics
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 Analytics within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 20 October 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 -18 5 £658 +25.24% 31
Analytics
UK

Analytics
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:

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%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Munging
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
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