Finance Contracts in Belfast

Financial
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Belfast. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Finance 88 44 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 43.35% 32.59% 27.81%
As % of the General category 59.06% 53.66% 40.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 24 25
10th Percentile £304 £143 £157
25th Percentile £397 £174 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £444 £460
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% -3.53% -8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £536
90th Percentile £611 £574 £609
County Antrim median daily rate £494 £444 £460
% change year-on-year +11.27% -3.53% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £16.70 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.77 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.97% - -
75th Percentile £24.80 - -
90th Percentile £26.46 - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £21.77 £24.18 -
% change year-on-year -9.97% - -

All General Skills
Belfast

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Belfast.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 149 82 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 73.40% 60.74% 68.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 44 55
10th Percentile £263 £146 £157
25th Percentile £325 £169 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £338 £400
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% -15.63% -18.37%
75th Percentile £563 £488 £505
90th Percentile £615 £564 £575
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £338 £400
% change year-on-year +40.74% -15.63% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.25 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.60 £21.19 £13.23
Median hourly rate £15.05 £23.00 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -34.57% +70.88% +31.70%
75th Percentile £16.88 £24.18 £13.91
90th Percentile £25.42 - £14.73
County Antrim median hourly rate £15.05 £23.59 £13.46
% change year-on-year -36.20% +75.26% +22.59%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Belfast

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Belfast over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Belfast

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Finance

Finance
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 6 (6.82%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.27%) Apache
3 2 (2.27%) GemFire
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.14%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (31.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (23.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (14.77%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.68%) AWS
1 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
2 4 (4.55%) OCI
3 3 (3.41%) Azure
4 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.27%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.27%) Serverless
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.14%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) DNS
1 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) Power BI
1 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.55%) Big Data
2 4 (4.55%) Tableau
3 3 (3.41%) Apache Hive
3 3 (3.41%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.27%) Apache Ignite
4 2 (2.27%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.27%) HBase
4 2 (2.27%) Impala
4 2 (2.27%) MySQL
4 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) JIRA
2 1 (1.14%) Git
General
1 37 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 33 (37.50%) Banking
3 26 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (28.41%) Financial Institution
5 18 (20.45%) Investment Banking
6 15 (17.05%) Front Office
7 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.55%) Legal
8 4 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.41%) Electronics
9 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.41%) Marketing
9 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.27%) Law
11 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.14%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (37.50%) Analyst
2 12 (13.64%) Business Analyst
2 12 (13.64%) Data Analyst
3 10 (11.36%) IT Support
4 9 (10.23%) Developer
4 9 (10.23%) Project Manager
4 9 (10.23%) Support Analyst
5 8 (9.09%) IT Analyst
5 8 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
5 8 (9.09%) Senior
6 6 (6.82%) Business Data Analyst
6 6 (6.82%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Risk Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Banking Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Apache Spark Developer
9 3 (3.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) Spring
2 5 (5.68%) Kafka
2 5 (5.68%) Spring Boot
3 4 (4.55%) Web Services
4 3 (3.41%) Apache Avro
4 3 (3.41%) JSON
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (3.41%) REST
4 3 (3.41%) SOAP
5 2 (2.27%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.27%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.14%) PySpark
6 1 (1.14%) React
6 1 (1.14%) RESTful
6 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Blackberry
1 6 (6.82%) BYOD
1 6 (6.82%) Market Risk
2 5 (5.68%) Derivative
2 5 (5.68%) Equities
2 5 (5.68%) Fixed Income
2 5 (5.68%) Reference Data
3 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.27%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.27%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Windows
2 2 (2.27%) Unix
3 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (17.05%) Project Management
3 14 (15.91%) Data Analysis
4 13 (14.77%) Change Management
5 12 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (11.36%) Project Delivery
6 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (11.36%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (10.23%) Business Analysis
8 8 (9.09%) Regulatory Change
9 6 (6.82%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (6.82%) Microservices
9 6 (6.82%) Programme Management
9 6 (6.82%) Risk Management
9 6 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (5.68%) DevOps
10 5 (5.68%) Process Improvement
10 5 (5.68%) Target Operating Model
10 5 (5.68%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.27%) SQL
2 10 (11.36%) Java
2 10 (11.36%) Python
3 3 (3.41%) C#
4 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.14%) R
4 1 (1.14%) Scala
4 1 (1.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (18.18%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) PMP
3 5 (5.68%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.55%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) ISEB
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.95%) PMO
3 6 (6.82%) MiFID
4 4 (4.55%) QA
5 2 (2.27%) Basel III
6 1 (1.14%) EMIR
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) HDFS
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.23%) Oracle
3 4 (4.55%) SAP
4 1 (1.14%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.14%) Citrix
4 1 (1.14%) Google
4 1 (1.14%) Sun
4 1 (1.14%) Sybase
4 1 (1.14%) Zscaler