Data Scientist Job Trends in County Antrim

Data Scientist
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Data Scientist salary in County Antrim is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Scientist 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 0.40% - 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% - 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - -
75th Percentile £41,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £40,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in County Antrim. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in County Antrim with a recognized job title 228 429 362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 97.06% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 110 247 289
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,650
25th Percentile £41,750 £41,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £58,800 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% +17.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £76,250
Northern Ireland median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% +10.00% +5.26%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings that featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in County Antrim

Data Scientist
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for Data Scientist job vacancies in County Antrim.

Salary distribution trend for Data Scientist job vacancies in County Antrim

Data Scientist
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 Data Scientist within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast - 1 £40,000 - 4
Data Scientist
Northern Ireland

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Data Scientist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the County Antrim region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python