Computer Science Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Computer Science
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Computer Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +15
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 0.48% 4.90% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 5.38% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £456
25th Percentile - £513 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +8.25% -20.82%
75th Percentile - £569 £510
90th Percentile - £588 £522
Northern Ireland median daily rate - £525 £485
% change year-on-year - +8.25% -20.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.25 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - £35.25 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 130 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 84.62% 90.91% 81.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 61 70
10th Percentile £313 £148 £213
25th Percentile £400 £213 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £325 £450
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% -27.78% -
75th Percentile £528 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £650
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £325 £469
% change year-on-year +38.46% -30.67% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 7
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £15.00 - £11.66
Median hourly rate £19.10 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -21.01% +79.64% -11.74%
75th Percentile £28.22 £52.31 £17.00
90th Percentile £53.75 £78.47 £18.30
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £18.20 £24.18 £15.63
% change year-on-year -24.73% +54.70% +2.49%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Computer Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Computer Science.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 20 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast -7 1 - - 25
Computer Science
Northern Ireland

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA