Senior Contracts in Northern Ireland

Senior
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Senior daily rate in Northern Ireland is £435 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 18 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 4 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.70% 7.50% 13.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.84% 8.29% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 15
10th Percentile - £553 £324
25th Percentile - £557 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £612 £475
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +28.89% +10.21%
75th Percentile - £664 £508
90th Percentile - £667 £550
UK median daily rate £560 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -5.08% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £15.82 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £48.75 £38.61
% change year-on-year -2.56% +26.25% +17.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 141 181 195
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.27% 90.50% 93.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 82 90
10th Percentile £173 £166 £145
25th Percentile £313 £303 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £425 £406
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +4.62% +1.56%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £498
90th Percentile £650 £620 £539
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 19
10th Percentile - £13.29 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £11.50
Median hourly rate £15.38 £14.59 £17.33
Median % change year-on-year +5.40% -15.80% +33.31%
75th Percentile £21.00 £15.94 £21.00
90th Percentile £28.54 £16.87 £21.65
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Northern Ireland

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Northern Ireland

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Northern Ireland

Senior
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 Senior within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -9 4 £435 -28.95% 41
Senior
UK

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Senior 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) Vue
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript

Senior Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) CSS3
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python