SMS Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Short Message Service (SMS)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring SMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SMS 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.11% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.76% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary £48,500 £63,500 £42,317
% change year-on-year -23.62% +50.06% -35.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

SMS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 132 25 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.13% 10.78% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 32
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,902 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,625 £51,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £69,384 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.33% +98.24% -5.41%
75th Percentile £65,000 £87,916 £42,125
90th Percentile £65,875 £99,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £45,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.21% - -5.94%

SMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

SMS job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

SMS
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing SMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing SMS

SMS
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 SMS within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 - 1 - -
SMS
UK

SMS
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana