Analytics Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Analytics
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 22 27
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 30 32 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 6.12% 6.82% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.65% 8.27% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile £39,125 - £34,875
25th Percentile £44,438 £27,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,750 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +28.34% -32.00% +37.50%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £69,375 £70,375 £79,875
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Analytics 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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 392 387 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 80.00% 82.52% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 180 161 199
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,112 £29,994
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £75,625 £80,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £79,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Analytics
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytics in Northern Ireland

Analytics
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 Analytics within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
County Antrim -4 23 £60,000 +30.43% 54
Newry -3 4 - -
County Down -5 4 - - 2
County Tyrone - 1 £40,500 - 1
County Armagh - 1 - - 1
Analytics
UK

Analytics
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:

Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) SAP CO
1 3 (10.00%) SAP ERP
1 3 (10.00%) SAP FI
1 3 (10.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
1 8 (26.67%) Power Platform
2 5 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (10.00%) AWS
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (3.33%) Boomi
6 1 (3.33%) iPaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Power BI
2 4 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (6.67%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (6.67%) Metadata
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (6.67%) SAP BW
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.33%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (43.33%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (43.33%) Finance
3 9 (30.00%) Legal
4 6 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.67%) Billing
7 1 (3.33%) Advertising
7 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Analyst
1 6 (20.00%) Digital Product Manager
1 6 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 5 (16.67%) Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Analytics Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Identity Management Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Analytics Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Business Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Commercial Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Insight Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Insight Manager
4 2 (6.67%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) SAP Data Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Kafka
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.33%) EDI
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) SOAP
2 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (13.33%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (43.33%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (43.33%) Decision-Making
3 11 (36.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (30.00%) Agile
6 8 (26.67%) AI
6 8 (26.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 8 (26.67%) ERP
7 7 (23.33%) Backlog Management
7 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
8 6 (20.00%) Budget Management
8 6 (20.00%) Customer Experience
8 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
8 6 (20.00%) Market Research
8 6 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
8 6 (20.00%) Product Strategy
8 6 (20.00%) Project Management
8 6 (20.00%) Telematics
8 6 (20.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.33%) GMP
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) SAP
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.33%) OpenAI