Data Science Contracts in Northern Ireland

Data Science
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 -
Contract jobs citing Data Science 1 1 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.55% 0.56% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.65% 8.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £450
75th Percentile - - £463
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £554 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -4.48% -3.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Data Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 154 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 77.60% 86.03% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 80 108
10th Percentile £146 £200 £199
25th Percentile £170 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -20.00% +13.96%
75th Percentile £556 £525 £550
90th Percentile £643 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 17
10th Percentile £21.19 £11.08 -
25th Percentile - £13.23 £10.22
Median hourly rate £24.18 £13.69 £10.98
Median % change year-on-year +76.69% +24.69% +9.75%
75th Percentile - £13.91 £21.00
90th Percentile £41.15 £18.08 -
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £42.50 £28.90
% change year-on-year +1.18% +47.06% +34.42%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Northern Ireland

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Northern Ireland

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim +1 1 - - 4
Data Science
UK

Data Science
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI