Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 31 July 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 31 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Big Data
UK > Northern Ireland
6 months to
31 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 39 55 69
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 -25
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 54 2 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.52% 0.55% 1.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.68% 2.78% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 53 0 7
10th Percentile £52,550 " £23,750
25th Percentile £72,500 " £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £40,000
75th Percentile £82,500 " £62,500
90th Percentile £86,500 " £67,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +6.72%

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northern Ireland
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 228 72 193
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 35.96% 19.67% 30.83%
Number of salaries quoted 109 12 103
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,875 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% +31.03%
75th Percentile £77,500 £58,125 £58,125
90th Percentile £82,500 £60,000 £67,947
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year - +5.77% +4.00%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Northern Ireland

Big Data
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Big Data in Northern Ireland

Big Data
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 31 July 2021.

Salary histogram for Big Data in Northern Ireland

Big Data
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 Big Data within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 31 July 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
County Antrim +18 54 £75,000 - 6
Big Data
UK

For the 6 months to 31 July 2021, IT jobs citing Big Data also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Northern Ireland region with a requirement for Big Data.

1 49 (90.74%) AWS
2 44 (81.48%) Machine Learning
2 44 (81.48%) Artificial Intelligence
3 42 (77.78%) Tandem
3 42 (77.78%) Python
3 42 (77.78%) Deep Learning
3 42 (77.78%) SaaS
3 42 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (77.78%) Computer Vision
3 42 (77.78%) Edge Computing
4 33 (61.11%) Jenkins
5 32 (59.26%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (59.26%) Amazon S3
5 32 (59.26%) CloudFront
5 32 (59.26%) Serverless
5 32 (59.26%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (59.26%) Microservices
5 32 (59.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (59.26%) Cloud Computing
5 32 (59.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (50.00%) Scrum
7 20 (37.04%) DevOps
8 19 (35.19%) Amazon DynamoDB
8 19 (35.19%) Java
8 19 (35.19%) MySQL
9 18 (33.33%) MongoDB
9 18 (33.33%) Docker
10 17 (31.48%) Flask
10 17 (31.48%) Swagger
10 17 (31.48%) Mentoring

Big Data
Co-occurring IT Skills in Northern Ireland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (29.63%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.70%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 49 (90.74%) AWS
2 42 (77.78%) SaaS
3 32 (59.26%) Amazon S3
3 32 (59.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 32 (59.26%) AWS Lambda
3 32 (59.26%) Cloud Computing
3 32 (59.26%) CloudFront
3 32 (59.26%) Serverless
4 15 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
6 4 (7.41%) GCP
7 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.78%) SSL
2 2 (3.70%) Internet
3 1 (1.85%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (59.26%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (35.19%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 19 (35.19%) MySQL
3 18 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 17 (31.48%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (31.48%) NoSQL
5 10 (18.52%) Data Mining
6 5 (9.26%) Hadoop
7 4 (7.41%) Apache Hive
7 4 (7.41%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.85%) Base SAS
9 1 (1.85%) DB2
9 1 (1.85%) DB2 UDB
9 1 (1.85%) HSQLDB
9 1 (1.85%) KDB
Development Applications
1 33 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.85%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.85%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.85%) JUnit
3 1 (1.85%) Maven
3 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (3.70%) Banking
3 1 (1.85%) Finance
3 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.85%) Retail
3 1 (1.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Python Engineer
2 15 (27.78%) Big Data Engineer
2 15 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 15 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (27.78%) Senior DevOps
2 15 (27.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (5.56%) Developer
4 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 2 (3.70%) Java Developer
4 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 2 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
5 1 (1.85%) Analyst
5 1 (1.85%) Backend Developer
5 1 (1.85%) Data Analyst
5 1 (1.85%) KDB Developer
5 1 (1.85%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (1.85%) Senior Developer
5 1 (1.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (31.48%) Django
1 17 (31.48%) Flask
1 17 (31.48%) Swagger
1 17 (31.48%) Web Services
2 16 (29.63%) Kafka
3 2 (3.70%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.70%) Java SE
3 2 (3.70%) Spring
3 2 (3.70%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.85%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.85%) Java EE
4 1 (1.85%) JSON
4 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (77.78%) Tandem
2 10 (18.52%) Smart City
3 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.85%) SWIFT
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (81.48%) Artificial Intelligence
1 44 (81.48%) Machine Learning
2 42 (77.78%) Computer Vision
2 42 (77.78%) Deep Learning
2 42 (77.78%) Edge Computing
3 32 (59.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (59.26%) Microservices
4 27 (50.00%) Scrum
5 20 (37.04%) DevOps
6 17 (31.48%) Mentoring
7 16 (29.63%) Agile Software Development
7 16 (29.63%) Test Automation
8 10 (18.52%) Computer Science
8 10 (18.52%) Data Management
8 10 (18.52%) Information Retrieval
8 10 (18.52%) Natural Language Processing
9 7 (12.96%) Analytics
10 6 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 2 (3.70%) Business Intelligence
11 2 (3.70%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 42 (77.78%) Python
2 19 (35.19%) Java
3 10 (18.52%) C
3 10 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 10 (18.52%) Perl
4 4 (7.41%) Scala
5 3 (5.56%) SQL
6 2 (3.70%) Java 8
7 1 (1.85%) Groovy
7 1 (1.85%) Java 11
7 1 (1.85%) R
7 1 (1.85%) SAS Macro
7 1 (1.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) OCP
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (27.78%) QA
System Software
1 18 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (7.41%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Oozie
2 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle
2 1 (1.85%) AppDynamics
2 1 (1.85%) TIBCO