Enterprise Architecture Job Trends in County Down

Enterprise Architecture
Northern Ireland > County Down

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Down requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 17 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in County Down 9.83% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.97% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary - £75,000 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Down

Enterprise Architecture 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 Down.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 17 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Down 82.08% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 8
10th Percentile £54,250 - £27,000
25th Percentile - £32,851 £33,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,426 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +63.80% -21.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - - £54,375
Northern Ireland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Locations in County Down

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Architecture within the County Down region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Donaghadee - 2 - -
Newtownards - 2 - -
Banbridge - 1 - -
Downpatrick - 1 - -
Holywood - 1 - - 1
Enterprise Architecture
Northern Ireland

Enterprise Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Down 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) SaaS
3 5 (29.41%) AWS
4 4 (23.53%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) LAN
1 4 (23.53%) WAN
General
1 17 (100.00%) Law
2 8 (47.06%) Legal
3 6 (35.29%) Legal Technology
3 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 4 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Senior
2 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Senior Developer
3 5 (29.41%) IT Manager
3 5 (29.41%) IT Services Manager
3 5 (29.41%) Resilience Manager
3 5 (29.41%) Service Manager
4 4 (23.53%) Architect
4 4 (23.53%) Systems Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) .NET
2 5 (29.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Information Security
2 12 (70.59%) Business Strategy
2 12 (70.59%) IT Strategy
2 12 (70.59%) Technology Strategy
3 11 (64.71%) Agile
3 11 (64.71%) Project Delivery
4 8 (47.06%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (47.06%) Software Engineering
4 8 (47.06%) Software Testing
4 8 (47.06%) Strategic Planning
5 7 (41.18%) DevOps
5 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
6 6 (35.29%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (35.29%) API Development
6 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
6 6 (35.29%) Data Governance
6 6 (35.29%) Microservices
6 6 (35.29%) Software Architecture
6 6 (35.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) CISM
1 5 (29.41%) CISSP
1 5 (29.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) QA
2 5 (29.41%) ISO 22301
2 5 (29.41%) NIST
3 4 (23.53%) GRC
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft