Commercial Awareness Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Commercial Awareness
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 41 50
Rank change year-on-year -64 +9 -1
Permanent jobs citing Commercial Awareness 20 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.20% 0.61% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 0.68% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £7,750 £56,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,250 £57,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.13% - -
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £45,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.88% -30.00% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Commercial Awareness 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 1,087 293 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 65.01% 89.88% 79.39%
Number of salaries quoted 292 140 197
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,188 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,250 £93,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Commercial Awareness
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Commercial Awareness.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Commercial Awareness in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Commercial Awareness in Northern Ireland

Commercial Awareness
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 Commercial Awareness within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 16 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 -39 17 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Newry - 3 £8,500 -
County Down - 3 £8,500 -
Commercial Awareness
UK

Commercial Awareness
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (5.00%) OCI
General
1 13 (65.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Marketing
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Aerospace
4 3 (15.00%) Automotive
4 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Consultant
1 4 (20.00%) Designer
1 4 (20.00%) Senior
1 4 (20.00%) Service Designer
2 3 (15.00%) Business Development Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Business Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Development Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Field Sales Executive
2 3 (15.00%) Sales Executive
3 2 (10.00%) Business Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Integration Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Product Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Product Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Business Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Jakarta EE
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
1 2 (10.00%) Web Services
1 2 (10.00%) XML
1 2 (10.00%) XSLT
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Coaching
2 13 (65.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (50.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (30.00%) Design Thinking
5 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (30.00%) Service Design
5 6 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (25.00%) Business Analysis
7 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
8 3 (15.00%) B2B Sales
8 3 (15.00%) Customer Experience
8 3 (15.00%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
8 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (15.00%) Fintech
8 3 (15.00%) Presales
8 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
8 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.00%) MBA
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Workday
2 1 (5.00%) Foundry
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle