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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 23 53
Rank change year-on-year -63 +30 +18
Permanent jobs citing Migration 6 11 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.53% 3.73% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 4.06% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 7
10th Percentile £64,406 £35,400 -
25th Percentile £69,381 £41,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,654 £69,000 £54,408
Median % change year-on-year +8.19% +26.82% +20.91%
75th Percentile £78,312 £74,750 £90,625
90th Percentile £78,551 £80,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -7.69%

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 804 271 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 70.84% 91.86% 82.36%
Number of salaries quoted 275 109 321
10th Percentile - £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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
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 13 July 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 5 £74,654 +0.21% 15
Newry - 1 £60,000 - 1
County Down - 1 £60,000 - 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
2 1 (16.67%) Pulumi
2 1 (16.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
General
1 5 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (33.33%) ERP Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Open Source
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) ERP
5 1 (16.67%) Application Performance Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
5 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft