Contract Negotiation Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Contract Negotiation
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Contract Negotiation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Permanent jobs citing Contract Negotiation 49 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 2.96% - 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% - 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £66,183 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.34% -5.45% +10.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Contract Negotiation 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 1,100 283 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 66.34% 89.56% 79.42%
Number of salaries quoted 303 134 206
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £58,150
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.02% +16.30%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,083 £91,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%

Contract Negotiation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contract Negotiation job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Contract Negotiation
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Contract Negotiation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Contract Negotiation

Contract Negotiation
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 Contract Negotiation within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 5 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 - 22 £47,500 - 8
County Down - 16 - -
County Armagh - 9 - -
County Tyrone - 2 - -
Newry - 1 - -
Contract Negotiation
UK

Contract Negotiation
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:

Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) SaaS
2 47 (95.92%) AWS
2 47 (95.92%) Azure
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
General
1 28 (57.14%) Law
2 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (4.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (100.00%) IT Manager
2 47 (95.92%) IT Services Manager
2 47 (95.92%) Resilience Manager
2 47 (95.92%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (95.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 47 (95.92%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (4.08%) Driving Licence
2 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) Information Security
2 47 (95.92%) Agile
2 47 (95.92%) Business Continuity
2 47 (95.92%) Contingency Planning
2 47 (95.92%) DevOps
2 47 (95.92%) Disaster Recovery
2 47 (95.92%) Enterprise Architecture
2 47 (95.92%) Graceful Degradation
2 47 (95.92%) ITIL
2 47 (95.92%) Runbook
2 47 (95.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 47 (95.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 47 (95.92%) Test Automation
2 47 (95.92%) Waterfall
3 28 (57.14%) Business Continuity Management
3 28 (57.14%) Programme Delivery
3 28 (57.14%) Project Delivery
4 2 (4.08%) IT Strategy
4 2 (4.08%) Roadmaps
4 2 (4.08%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 47 (95.92%) CISM
1 47 (95.92%) CISSP
1 47 (95.92%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (95.92%) ISO 22301
1 47 (95.92%) NIST
2 2 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft