Software Engineer Contracts in Belfast

Software Engineer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Belfast is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2024.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 2.76% - 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.99% - 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £601 - -
25th Percentile £641 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £691 - -
90th Percentile £696 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £675 - -

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 134 127 166
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 88.81% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 62 86
10th Percentile £166 £157 £146
25th Percentile £200 £284 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £406 £448
Median % change year-on-year +8.92% -9.22% +11.88%
75th Percentile £613 £488 £500
90th Percentile £675 £638 £560
County Antrim median daily rate £443 £406 £448
% change year-on-year +8.92% -9.22% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 12
10th Percentile £12.25 - -
25th Percentile £12.99 £13.91 £10.22
Median hourly rate £16.12 £14.96 £11.74
Median % change year-on-year +7.79% +27.36% -9.67%
75th Percentile £23.94 £16.81 £14.60
90th Percentile £24.18 £17.35 £23.61
County Antrim median hourly rate £19.34 £14.96 £13.45
% change year-on-year +29.32% +11.23% +13.08%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Belfast

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Belfast

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Belfast

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 25 June 2024, Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Coaching
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Spring

Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Coaching
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft