Computer Science Contracts in Belfast

Computer Science
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science 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 25 18 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 3.40% 4.03% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 5.49% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £520 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +30.00% +14.29%
County Antrim median daily rate £600 £520 £400
% change year-on-year +15.38% +30.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £35.25 - -
75th Percentile £36.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £35.25 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Computer Science 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%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Belfast

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Belfast.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Belfast

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Belfast.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Belfast

Computer Science
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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Flink
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) HBase
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (60.00%) Law
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Big Data Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (60.00%) Equities
1 3 (60.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (60.00%) Data Management
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Forecasting
3 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Measurement
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cloudera