Data Management Contracts in Northern Ireland

Data Management
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Data Management 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.77% - 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% - 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £343 - £523
25th Percentile £369 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.21%
75th Percentile £488 - £638
90th Percentile £518 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Data Management 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 145 111 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 91.19% 75.51% 76.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 55 80
10th Percentile £153 £211 £160
25th Percentile £291 £353 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £513 £406
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.15% -6.61%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £504
90th Percentile £625 £665 £624
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £23.54 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in Northern Ireland

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Management in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Data Management in Northern Ireland

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in Northern Ireland

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Management in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in Northern Ireland

Data Management
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 Data Management within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 May 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 - 6 £425 - 9
Data Management
UK

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (16.67%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ENOVIA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Flink
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (33.33%) Law
4 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) CATIA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 2 (33.33%) Equities
1 2 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Business Development
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) CAD
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lineage
3 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) PDM
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft