Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Belfast

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 4.08% - 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% - 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £400
75th Percentile £470 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median daily rate £410 - £400

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Artificial Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 135 91 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 91.84% 73.39% 81.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 56 69
10th Percentile £154 £211 £164
25th Percentile £295 £345 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £515
90th Percentile £625 £663 £638
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 14
10th Percentile £22.50 - £13.40
25th Percentile £23.76 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £32.13 £12.62 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +154.56% -17.25% +34.24%
75th Percentile £58.85 £14.78 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £19.19 £18.12
County Antrim median hourly rate £26.59 £14.19 £15.25
% change year-on-year +87.45% -6.98% -3.11%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Belfast

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Belfast.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Belfast

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (33.33%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Java Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Java Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Zscaler