Data Analytics Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Data Analytics
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 44 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 -5 +40
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 4 4 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.78% 1.01% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.21% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £64,375 £34,875
25th Percentile - £65,313 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £68,750 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year - +41.03% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £70,938 £64,375
90th Percentile - £71,125 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Data Analytics 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 391 331 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 76.52% 83.59% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 171 106 217
10th Percentile £29,750 £34,112 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,875 £45,000 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,430 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% +18.86% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Data Analytics
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
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 Data Analytics within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 15 January 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 +3 2 - - 4
Newry -7 1 - -
County Down -10 1 - - 2
County Armagh - 1 - - 1
Data Analytics
UK

Data Analytics
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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Billing
4 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Commercial Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Insight Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) EDI
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Time Management
3 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
3 2 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Visual Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) WFM
4 1 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI