Junior Contracts in Belfast

Junior
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Junior daily rate in Belfast is £225, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 2.72% 1.61% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.96% 1.71% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £205 £285 £233
25th Percentile £213 £290 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £311 £246
Median % change year-on-year -27.71% +26.65% -18.08%
75th Percentile - £338 £253
90th Percentile - £347 £255
County Antrim median daily rate £225 £311 £246
% change year-on-year -27.71% +26.65% -18.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Belfast. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Belfast with a recognized job title 135 117 147
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 94.35% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 72 72
10th Percentile £155 £173 £166
25th Percentile £273 £309 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £419
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +7.46% -
75th Percentile £530 £575 £504
90th Percentile £625 £650 £636
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £450 £419
% change year-on-year -8.89% +7.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 8
10th Percentile £22.50 - £13.29
25th Percentile £22.92 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £14.19 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year +87.45% -2.79% +16.74%
75th Percentile £48.32 £16.12 £15.94
90th Percentile £78.47 - £16.87
County Antrim median hourly rate £24.18 £15.75 £14.59
% change year-on-year +53.52% +7.93% +5.06%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings that featured Junior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Junior in Belfast

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for Junior in Belfast

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior in Belfast

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Junior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Belfast region featuring Junior in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) Front Office
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Derivative
1 2 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (50.00%) Equities
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership

Junior Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Derivative
1 2 (50.00%) Equities
1 2 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) AIX
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle