Big Data Jobs in Northern Ireland

Big Data
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 78 83
Rank change year-on-year +45 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 5 3 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.90% 0.38% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.36% 2.19% 6.85%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £115,000 -
UK median annual salary £58,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -27.50% +14.29% -12.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northern Ireland

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 44 137 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 16.73% 17.28% 26.64%
Number of salaries quoted 17 43 113
10th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £81,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,700 £97,500 £81,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -10.16% +6.67%

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
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 19 June 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 +42 5 - - 34
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Apache
1 5 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Apache Hive
2 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) HBase
3 1 (20.00%) Impala
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Apache Spark Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
2 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (80.00%) J2EE
2 4 (80.00%) Java EE
2 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Avro
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (80.00%) OO
2 4 (80.00%) OOA/OOD
2 4 (80.00%) OOD
2 4 (80.00%) OOP
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Storyboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Sybase
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle