SNA Job Trends in Northern Ireland

IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SNA 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.40% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.45% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £57,500 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - -25.58%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

SNA 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 58 45 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 11.69% 10.64% 19.61%
Number of salaries quoted 36 8 54
10th Percentile £30,750 £34,520 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,219 £47,938 £33,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,077 £64,654 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.83% +52.13% -1.16%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,483 £63,438
90th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £69,800
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

SNA
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

SNA job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

SNA
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing SNA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing SNA

SNA
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 SNA within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 2 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 - 2 £57,500 -
SNA
UK

SNA
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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft