Data Engineering Jobs in Northern Ireland

Data Engineering
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 68 93
Rank change year-on-year +35 +25 -17
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 1 9 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.38% 1.23% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.40% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 0 9 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.65%
75th Percentile - £78,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - £80,500 -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Data Engineering 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 239 643 835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 91.57% 87.60% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 58 305 436
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,500 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,408 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.82% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £87,500 £69,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Northern Ireland

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in Northern Ireland

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 28 May 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 +33 1 - - 49
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Data Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL