Analytical Skills Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Analytical Skills
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 23 19
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 224 19 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 13.27% 5.85% 8.46%
As % of the General category 19.55% 9.13% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 18 6 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35,250 £50,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £53,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +19.44% +6.15%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £64,929
90th Percentile £68,438 - £93,750
UK median annual salary £51,356 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.71% -9.09% -

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,146 208 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 67.89% 64.00% 56.89%
Number of salaries quoted 116 82 116
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £77,931
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in Northern Ireland

Analytical Skills
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
County Antrim +3 115 £39,000 -27.44% 240
County Down - 80 £57,500 - 7
County Armagh - 26 - - 5
Newry - 3 £63,750 -
County Tyrone - 2 £45,000 - 3
County Londonderry - 1 - - 7
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
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 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.89%) EPLAN
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 57 (25.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (12.05%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 41 (18.30%) Entra ID
2 11 (4.91%) Azure
3 6 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (2.23%) AWS
5 4 (1.79%) Smartsheet
6 3 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.89%) GCP
7 2 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.34%) Firewall
2 2 (0.89%) J1939
3 1 (0.45%) DNS
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.45%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.45%) Big Data
1 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.45%) Db2
1 1 (0.45%) MySQL
1 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (0.45%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.45%) Git
2 1 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 212 (94.64%) Social Skills
2 86 (38.39%) Presentation Skills
3 57 (25.45%) Legal
3 57 (25.45%) Marketing
4 30 (13.39%) Finance
5 22 (9.82%) Law
6 6 (2.68%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.34%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.34%) Retail
8 2 (0.89%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 139 (62.05%) Analyst
2 97 (43.30%) ITSM Analyst
3 79 (35.27%) Senior
4 75 (33.48%) Senior Analyst
5 67 (29.91%) Process Analyst
6 63 (28.13%) Support Analyst
7 57 (25.45%) Marketing Manager
7 57 (25.45%) Technology Manager
8 45 (20.09%) Senior Process Analyst
9 41 (18.30%) Digital Analyst
9 41 (18.30%) Senior Support Analyst
10 24 (10.71%) IT Analyst
10 24 (10.71%) Service Analyst
10 24 (10.71%) Service Management Analyst
11 9 (4.02%) Consultant
12 6 (2.68%) Applications Consultant
12 6 (2.68%) Applications Support
12 6 (2.68%) Applications Support Consultant
12 6 (2.68%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 6 (2.68%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.45%) JSON
1 1 (0.45%) REST
1 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (25.45%) Blog
1 57 (25.45%) Marketing Technology
2 14 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.79%) Driving Licence
3 4 (1.79%) FMCG
3 4 (1.79%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.45%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.45%) Clustering
6 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.45%) Derivative
6 1 (0.45%) Replication
6 1 (0.45%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.23%) Windows
2 4 (1.79%) Linux
3 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (72.32%) Continuous Improvement
2 158 (70.54%) Change Management
3 147 (65.63%) Decision-Making
4 103 (45.98%) ITIL
5 101 (45.09%) Logistics
5 101 (45.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 99 (44.20%) ITSM
6 99 (44.20%) Problem Management
7 98 (43.75%) Project Delivery
7 98 (43.75%) Risk Management
7 98 (43.75%) Root Cause Analysis
8 97 (43.30%) Acceptance Criteria
8 97 (43.30%) Release Management
8 97 (43.30%) Service Design
8 97 (43.30%) Service Management
8 97 (43.30%) User Experience
9 73 (32.59%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (28.57%) Analytics
11 63 (28.13%) Service Delivery
12 62 (27.68%) AI
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.34%) SQL
2 2 (0.89%) Python
3 1 (0.45%) Bash
3 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 104 (46.43%) Degree
2 6 (2.68%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.34%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.34%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.34%) CompTIA CySA+
3 3 (1.34%) GCFA
3 3 (1.34%) GCIA
3 3 (1.34%) GCIH
3 3 (1.34%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.89%) HND
5 1 (0.45%) CEH
5 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) ECIH
5 1 (0.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.79%) PMO
2 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.45%) GDPR
2 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.45%) QA
2 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (19.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.34%) QRadar
2 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 44 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.23%) SAP
3 4 (1.79%) Splunk
4 3 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (0.89%) Thales
6 1 (0.45%) Google
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle
6 1 (0.45%) VMware