Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Belfast

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	13	New entry-	£345	-	16 9.88%	18
Onboarding	21	Up 7 places+7	£531	-	7 4.32%	16
PCIe	22	New entry-	-	-	6 3.70%
Data Protection Act	24	New entry-	£109	-	4 2.47%
Web Conferencing	24	New entry-	-	-	4 2.47%	3
Fixed Income	25	Up 2 places+2	£363	-32.55%	3 1.85%	2
FPGA	25	New entry-	£425	-	3 1.85%
Podcast	25	New entry-	-	-	3 1.85%	2
Virtual Team	25	Up 5 places+5	-	-	3 1.85%	5
Distributed Systems	25	Up 6 places+6	-	-	3 1.85%	13
Derivative	26	Down -8 places-8	£625	+53.37%	2 1.23%	4
Algorithms	26	Up 2 places+2	-	-	2 1.23%	4
Driving Licence	26	Up 5 places+5	-	-	2 1.23%	7
Self-Motivation	26	Up 3 places+3	£369	-1.00%	2 1.23%	8
Legacy Systems	26	Up 4 places+4	£675	-	2 1.23%	2
Distributed Applications	26	New entry-	-	-	2 1.23%	2
Foreign Exchange (FX)	26	No change0	£438	-17.45%	2 1.23%	1
Management Information System	27	Down -1 place-1	-	-	1 0.62%	11
e-Learning	27	New entry-	-	-	1 0.62%	2
Equities	27	Down -10 places-10	£475	+11.76%	1 0.62%
Market Risk	27	Down -3 places-3	£650	+10.63%	1 0.62%
Reference Data	27	Up 2 places+2	£550	-2.22%	1 0.62%
SWIFT Messaging Network	27	New entry-	£600	-	1 0.62%
Embedded Systems	27	New entry-	£425	-	1 0.62%	1
Enterprise Software	27	Down -2 places-2	£450	+5.88%	1 0.62%	6
Public Cloud	27	New entry-	-	-	1 0.62%	1
Data Centre	27	New entry-	£425	-	1 0.62%	1
Low-Code	27	New entry-	£800	-	1 0.62%	1
AI Agents	27	New entry-	£650	-	1 0.62%	5
NHS	27	New entry-	-	-	1 0.62%