Data Analyst Jobs

Data analytics has become a foundational capability across Irish business, with 127 active roles reflecting demand that cuts across consulting, healthcare, financial services, and retail. Dublin accounts for the vast majority with 102 positions, but pockets of demand in Limerick and Kerry demonstrate that analytics skills are valued beyond the capital.

The Big Four and professional services firms are the largest employers. EY leads with 12 positions at Harcourt Centre, hiring data analysts and business analysts for client-facing consulting engagements. Deloitte recruits 4 analysts for similar transformation and advisory work. PwC at One Spencer Dock adds further demand. These roles are notable because they combine technical analytics with business consulting — you're not just building dashboards, you're presenting findings to C-suite executives and shaping strategic decisions.

Cognizant has 10 open positions, bringing the IT services and outsourcing model to data analytics. UnitedHealth Group recruits 6 data analysts at its Dublin operation — one of the largest healthcare data teams in Ireland, applying analytics to health outcomes and insurance operations. Fisher Investments with 8 positions demonstrates the appetite in wealth management for data-driven decision making.

The retail sector brings a different lens. Primark has 4 analytics positions where the focus is on consumer behaviour, merchandising performance, and supply chain optimisation — applying data skills to physical retail at scale. Turner & Townsend adds a construction and infrastructure consultancy angle, while StepStone Group and Version 1 bring private equity and IT services demand respectively.

What skills are in demand? SQL is the universal baseline, with Python and R increasingly expected for anything beyond reporting. Power BI and Tableau dominate the visualisation layer. For consulting-oriented roles at EY and Deloitte, the ability to structure ambiguous problems and communicate insights to non-technical stakeholders is at least as important as technical skill. The career path runs from Data Analyst and Business Analyst through to Senior Business Analyst, Analytics Manager, and into data leadership roles. For those with stronger technical ambitions, the data analyst path often branches into data engineering or data science — both of which are distinct career paths tracked separately on HiringNow.ie.