Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Stakeholder Management	3	Up 17 places+17	£463	-7.50%	41 20.20%	35
Customer Service	6	Up 8 places+8	£203	-57.36%	32 15.76%	13
Problem-Solving	7	Down 1 place-1	£463	-2.63%	31 15.27%	56
CI/CD	11	Up 19 places+19	£575	-	25 12.32%	15
DevOps	12	Up 21 places+21	£600	-	24 11.82%	16
Agile	12	Up 15 places+15	£638	+15.90%	24 11.82%	20
Project Delivery	14	Up 10 places+10	£444	+19.12%	22 10.84%	9
Continuous Improvement	14	Up 6 places+6	£463	+2.77%	22 10.84%	28
Analytics	15	Up 18 places+18	£390	-40.68%	21 10.34%	18
Migration	16	Down 6 places-6	£401	+14.64%	20 9.85%	8
User Acceptance Testing	18	Up 7 places+7	£463	-5.12%	18 8.87%	5
Data Protection	18	Up 3 places+3	£110	-81.75%	18 8.87%	18
ERP	19	Up 11 places+11	£450	+28.57%	17 8.37%	6
Business Intelligence	21	Down 2 places-2	£334	-39.27%	14 6.90%	13
Infrastructure as Code	24	Up 10 places+10	£496	-	11 5.42%	8
Stakeholder Engagement	24	Up 1 place+1	£463	-10.84%	11 5.42%	10
AI	24	Up 11 places+11	£625	-10.71%	11 5.42%	54
Data Modelling	24	Up 3 places+3	£650	+4.00%	11 5.42%	13
Data Migration	24	Up 8 places+8	£688	+71.87%	11 5.42%	3
Decision-Making	25	Up 9 places+9	£334	-26.99%	10 4.93%	14
Business Analysis	25	Up 4 places+4	£463	-11.90%	10 4.93%	16
Performance Tuning	26	Up 11 places+11	£463	-	9 4.43%	1
Containerisation	26	Up 9 places+9	£446	-	9 4.43%	5
ETL	26	Up 1 place+1	£463	+15.62%	9 4.43%	5
Test Automation	26	Up 1 place+1	£550	+86.44%	9 4.43%	9
Accounts Payable	26	New entry-	-	-	9 4.43%
Accounts Receivable	26	New entry-	-	-	9 4.43%
Project Management	27	Down 11 places-11	£388	-6.06%	8 3.94%	7
Risk Management	27	Down 2 places-2	£510	+2.00%	8 3.94%	9
Data Integration	27	Up 9 places+9	£463	-52.56%	8 3.94%	2
Data Science	27	Up 9 places+9	£334	-	8 3.94%	9
Microservices	28	Up 7 places+7	£550	+25.71%	7 3.45%	4
Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)	28	New entry-	£688	-	7 3.45%
Change Management	29	Down 8 places-8	£750	+53.84%	6 2.96%	5
Mentoring	29	Up 6 places+6	£650	-33.33%	6 2.96%	22
Coaching	29	New entry-	£650	-	6 2.96%	30
Full-Stack Development	29	Up 8 places+8	£463	+2.77%	6 2.96%	9
Informatics	29	Up 3 places+3	£275	-	6 2.96%
SDLC	29	Up 8 places+8	£325	-61.76%	6 2.96%	5
API Integration	29	New entry-	£650	-	6 2.96%	4
Data Extraction	29	Up 7 places+7	£463	-	6 2.96%	1
Cybersecurity	29	Down 14 places-14	£550	+10.00%	6 2.96%	35
Site Reliability Engineering	30	New entry-	£488	-	5 2.46%	1
ITSM	30	Down 1 place-1	-	-	5 2.46%	7
Infrastructure Automation	30	New entry-	£446	-	5 2.46%	2
Translating Business Requirements	30	Up 6 places+6	£619	+37.50%	5 2.46%	7
Data Engineering	30	Up 7 places+7	£467	-	5 2.46%	4
Code Quality	30	New entry-	£450	-	5 2.46%	6
Software Engineering	30	Up 6 places+6	£375	-40.00%	5 2.46%	15
Deployment Automation	31	New entry-	£463	-	4 1.97%	1