B2B Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Business-to-Business (B2B)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring B2B skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing B2B 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 2.91% - 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% - 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median daily rate £350 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.08
Median hourly rate - - £11.15
75th Percentile - - £11.23
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate - - £11.15

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

B2B 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 184 130 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 89.32% 82.28% 84.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 59 67
10th Percentile £264 £145 £191
25th Percentile £325 £169 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £489
90th Percentile £638 £615 £580
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.19 £23.30 £13.23
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +79.64% +31.70%
75th Percentile £17.30 - £13.91
90th Percentile £24.50 - £14.73
County Antrim median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.69
% change year-on-year -28.45% +76.69% +24.69%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for B2B in Belfast

B2B
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing B2B.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing B2B

B2B
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) EDI Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) EDI
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ERP
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) API Development
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
2 1 (16.67%) GitOps
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Argo
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
1 3 (50.00%) IBM Sterling
1 3 (50.00%) OpenText
1 3 (50.00%) SEEBURGER