Data Salary Guide 2025

For the 2025 IT Search Data Salary Guide 2025, we have surveyed almost 400 Irish based technology professionals to better understand how the data jobs market may perform in 2025, and what their own motivations and expectations are. We hope this information may help our clients make more informed decisions on retention and attraction of talent. Many thanks to all our Clients, Candidates and Partners who have helped with this report.

Introduction

Approximately 19% of Data Professionals changed job in 2024 which is down marginally from 21% in 2023, and still represents an extremely buoyant market and underscores the importance of Data to businesses.

Advanced technologies – AL, ML, Edge computing and IoT will continue transforming the data analysis landscape and will bring more responsibilities for the analysts such as analysis of human behaviour, predicting trends through machine learning algorithms and leveraging interpretation techniques for better visualisation.

In the short term we expect continued demand for AI Automation skills. As AI and ML further integrates into data analytics, everything from data preparation to modelling and deployment will become more automated.

The need for AIOps experts will continue to grow in 2025, as the shift to AI for monitoring systems, improving operational efficiency, and predicting potential system failures expands.

Similarly, the demand for talent with MLOps skills for Scalable AI with continue to grow. MLOps will continue to mature, enabling business to more efficiently deploy, monitor, and scale ML models in a production environment.

Data Salary Guide 2025

Position Junior (1-3 years) Mid(3-6 years) Senior (6+ years) Day Rate
Data Analyst €40000-€55000 €55000-€75000 €75000-€85000 €375-€425
Modelling Analyst €40000-€55000 €55000-€75000 €75000-€85000 €350-€400
Data Scientist €55000-€65000 €75000-€85000 €90000-€110000 €450-€650
ML Engineer €55000-€65000 €75000-€85000 €90000-€110000 €400-€600
Data Engineer €45000-€60000 €65000-€80000 €80000-€110000 €400-€425
BI Developer €45000-€55000 €55000-€70000 €70000-€90000 €550-€650
Analytics Manager €65000-€70000 €85000-€110000 €110000-€120000 €500-€550
Data Governance Manager €75000-€85000 €90000-€110000 €110000-€140000 €650+
Head of Analytics N/A €10000-€120000 €120000-€160000 €325-€360
Insights Analyst €40000-€55000 €55000-€60000 €65000-€70000 €375-€425
Insights Manager €65000-€75000 €75000-€85000 €85000-€100000 €500-€600
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If you have any queries in regards to the salary survey or anything artificial intelligence recruitment related, contact David on +353 1 507 9276 or email david.shanahan@itsearch.ie.

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