AI Job Trends in County Antrim

AI
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 10 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Permanent jobs citing AI 37 41 0
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 9.81% 13.76% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.67% 15.95% -
Number of salaries quoted 20 15 0
10th Percentile £61,125 - -
25th Percentile £70,938 £80,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £90,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £101,250 -
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,750 -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £86,250 £88,750 -
% change year-on-year -2.82% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 292 257 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 77.45% 86.24% 90.78%
Number of salaries quoted 155 85 197
10th Percentile £26,925 £37,700 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £77,906 £87,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £79,250
Northern Ireland median annual salary £50,000 £59,430 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.87% +18.86% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

AI job vacancy trend in County Antrim

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Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing AI

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Salary Histogram in County Antrim

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in County Antrim over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in County Antrim

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Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast +5 37 £86,250 -4.17% 81
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Northern Ireland

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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 2 (5.41%) CICS
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) GCP
3 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
4 5 (13.51%) Azure AI
5 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Functions
5 4 (10.81%) Cloud Functions
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) SaaS
7 2 (5.41%) GitHub
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.70%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.70%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Power BI
2 5 (13.51%) Tableau
3 2 (5.41%) DB2
4 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 13 (35.14%) Finance
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Legal
3 3 (8.11%) Marketing
3 3 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Advertising
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Lead
2 5 (13.51%) Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Data Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Developer
2 5 (13.51%) Junior
2 5 (13.51%) Junior Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Junior Data Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Product Manager
3 4 (10.81%) JavaScript Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Node.js Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Team Leader
5 2 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Customer Support Specialist
5 2 (5.41%) Digital Product Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Support Specialist
5 2 (5.41%) Trainer
6 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (35.14%) Node.js
2 6 (16.22%) React
3 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
3 5 (13.51%) Next.js
4 4 (10.81%) Vue
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) HTML
5 1 (2.70%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) AI Agents
2 2 (5.41%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.41%) VSAM
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Machine Learning
2 9 (24.32%) LLM
3 8 (21.62%) Agile
3 8 (21.62%) User Experience
4 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
5 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
6 5 (13.51%) Decision-Making
6 5 (13.51%) DevOps
6 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (13.51%) Product Management
6 5 (13.51%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.81%) Analytics
7 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.81%) Software Delivery
7 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
7 4 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (8.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Python
2 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
3 6 (16.22%) SQL
3 6 (16.22%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.81%) C#
4 4 (10.81%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) COBOL
5 2 (5.41%) JCL
6 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) RACF
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Google
2 2 (5.41%) PayPal
3 1 (2.70%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.70%) BT