Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Northern Ireland

Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Driving Licence	22	0	£150	-14.28%	9 3.96%	7
Data Protection Act	24	-	-	-	7 3.08%
Equities	25	-10	£588	+80.76%	6 2.64%
PCIe	25	-	-	-	6 2.64%
FPGA	26	-	£425	-	5 2.20%
BYOD	26	-5	-	-	5 2.20%
Blackberry	26	0	-	-	5 2.20%
Cyber Security Posture	27	-	-	-	4 1.76%
Virtual Team	27	+1	£475	+216.66%	4 1.76%	2
Fixed Income	28	-3	£494	+64.58%	3 1.32%
Derivative	28	-15	£320	-1.53%	3 1.32%	1
Data Centre	28	-	£425	-	3 1.32%	1
Embedded Systems	28	-	£425	-	3 1.32%
Video Conferencing	28	0	-	-	3 1.32%
Onboarding	28	-1	£500	-20.00%	3 1.32%	3
Self-Motivation	29	-4	£450	+60.00%	2 0.88%	3
Legacy Systems	29	0	£675	-	2 0.88%	2
Management Information System	29	-6	£625	+108.33%	2 0.88%	4
Foreign Exchange (FX)	30	-5	£488	+39.28%	1 0.44%
NHS	30	-	-	-	1 0.44%
Thin Client	30	-	£175	-	1 0.44%
ASIC	30	-	-	-	1 0.44%
SCADA	30	-	£500	-	1 0.44%
Fat Client	30	-	£175	-	1 0.44%
Reference Data	30	-	-	-	1 0.44%
SWIFT Messaging Network	30	-	£600	-	1 0.44%	1
Algorithms	30	-4	-	-	1 0.44%	3
Public Cloud	30	-	£385	-	1 0.44%	1
Distributed Systems	30	-	-	-	1 0.44%	2
Distributed Applications	30	-	-	-	1 0.44%
Operational Technology	30	-	£500	-	1 0.44%
AI Agents	30	-	-	-	1 0.44%	4