Migration Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Migration
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Migration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 46 35
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +46
Permanent jobs citing Migration 18 7 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 3.57% 1.63% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 1.99% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile £44,200 - £40,000
25th Percentile £49,250 £26,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £27,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +89.09% -48.84% +4.88%
75th Percentile £65,895 £40,625 £72,188
90th Percentile £79,274 £47,750 £76,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Migration 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 390 351 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 77.38% 81.82% 92.56%
Number of salaries quoted 175 124 208
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,112 £29,994
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £35,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +23.71% -3.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £67,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Migration
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Migration job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Migration
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Migration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Migration

Migration
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Migration in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Migration in Northern Ireland

Migration
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 Migration within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 30 December 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 +10 12 £62,901 +128.73% 72
Newry - 2 - -
County Down - 2 - -
County Tyrone - 1 £40,500 -
County Londonderry - 1 - -
Migration
UK

Migration
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 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) SAP CO
1 3 (16.67%) SAP ERP
1 3 (16.67%) SAP FI
1 3 (16.67%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) dbt
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Pulumi
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Power BI
2 4 (22.22%) Tableau
3 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.56%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.56%) MySQL
4 1 (5.56%) Parquet
4 1 (5.56%) Redis
4 1 (5.56%) SAP BW
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Postman
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 4 (22.22%) Games
4 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
4 4 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (16.67%) Legal
6 1 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Architect
2 7 (38.89%) Senior
3 5 (27.78%) Senior Architect
4 4 (22.22%) Senior Manager
5 3 (16.67%) Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security Architect
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
5 3 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
5 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Data Migration Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) DBA
7 1 (5.56%) Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) SQL DBA
7 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Avro
1 1 (5.56%) CSS
1 1 (5.56%) Django
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
1 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (27.78%) Analytics
4 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
5 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 4 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (22.22%) ERP
5 4 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (22.22%) Lean Six Sigma
5 4 (22.22%) Project Management
5 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 4 (22.22%) Six Sigma
5 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (22.22%) Time Management
5 4 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (22.22%) WFM
6 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 3 (16.67%) Fault Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) PHP
3 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) PMI Certification
2 4 (22.22%) PMP
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Anaplan
2 4 (22.22%) Genesys
2 4 (22.22%) SAP
2 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 4 (22.22%) Verint
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) RedGate