Lead Contracts in County Antrim

Leader
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Leader daily rate in County Antrim is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 18 28
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 18 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 13.74% 2.99% 2.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.40% 3.36% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile £688 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £588 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in County Antrim. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in County Antrim with a recognized job title 125 149 174
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 89.22% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 72 82
10th Percentile £173 £166 £145
25th Percentile £300 £293 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £419 £419
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% - +4.69%
75th Percentile £575 £504 £500
90th Percentile £650 £636 £549
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £425 £406
% change year-on-year +5.88% +4.62% +0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 16
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.44 £13.91 £10.64
Median hourly rate £15.75 £14.59 £13.89
Median % change year-on-year +7.93% +5.06% +16.82%
75th Percentile £16.12 £15.94 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £16.87 £22.63
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £15.38 £14.59 £17.33
% change year-on-year +5.40% -15.80% +33.31%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in County Antrim

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in County Antrim.

Daily rate trend for Lead in County Antrim

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in County Antrim over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in County Antrim

Lead
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Belfast +13 18 £588 - 15
Lead
Northern Ireland

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the County Antrim region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (61.11%) Validation
2 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) Power Platform
3 7 (38.89%) Coaching
4 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) Azure Functions
4 6 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (33.33%) Serverless
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) AWS
5 3 (16.67%) GCP
6 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
7 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (5.56%) C#
7 1 (5.56%) People Management
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
7 1 (5.56%) VMware
7 1 (5.56%) Finance
7 1 (5.56%) Legal
7 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
7 1 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
7 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
1 11 (61.11%) Power Platform
2 6 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 6 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
General
1 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Validation
2 7 (38.89%) Coaching
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 6 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
6 1 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (5.56%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) VMware