AI Job Trends in Northern Ireland

AI
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 13 45
Rank change year-on-year -20 +32 +49
Permanent jobs citing AI 19 46 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 4.41% 9.31% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 11.79% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 1
10th Percentile £51,800 £70,000 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £86,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +15.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £103,625 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 366 390 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 84.92% 78.95% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 149 192 232
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,201 £29,994
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £95,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

AI job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

AI
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AI in Northern Ireland

AI
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 AI within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 7 November 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 -12 15 £70,000 -20.00% 40
Newry -6 2 - -
County Down -12 2 - - 1
County Armagh - 1 - -
AI
UK

AI
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 1 (5.26%) CICS
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Chatbot
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (5.26%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.26%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 10 (52.63%) Finance
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.53%) Legal
5 2 (10.53%) Marketing
6 1 (5.26%) Advertising
6 1 (5.26%) Banking
6 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Business Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Customer Support Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Insight Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Product Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Python Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Support Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Trainer
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.26%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) PHP Developer
4 1 (5.26%) PHP Laravel Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) React
2 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.26%) CSS
2 1 (5.26%) EDI
2 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) Laravel
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) Redux
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
2 1 (5.26%) Vue
2 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.26%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Machine Learning
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) Analytics
2 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) Customer Insight
5 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Customer Experience
5 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
5 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
5 3 (15.79%) Project Management
5 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.79%) User Experience
6 2 (10.53%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (10.53%) Product Strategy
6 2 (10.53%) Product Vision
6 2 (10.53%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) COBOL
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) JCL
4 1 (5.26%) PHP
4 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) PayPal
2 1 (5.26%) Bloomberg
2 1 (5.26%) BT
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAI