Agile Contracts in County Antrim

Agile Software Development
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 12 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Agile 13 11 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 9.92% 6.59% 18.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.27% 8.15% 21.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 23
10th Percentile £482 £356 £365
25th Percentile £519 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -7.22% +23.57%
75th Percentile £625 £478 £513
90th Percentile £688 £488 £570
Northern Ireland median daily rate £600 £425 £480
% change year-on-year +41.18% -11.46% +22.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 135 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 74.81% 80.84% 83.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 69 82
10th Percentile £210 £164 £145
25th Percentile £328 £258 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £441
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.35% +7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £515 £500
90th Percentile £663 £638 £550
Northern Ireland median daily rate £500 £406 £438
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 11
10th Percentile - £13.40 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £10.26
Median hourly rate £14.19 £15.25 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -3.11% +21.08%
75th Percentile £25.22 £16.78 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.12 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £13.94 £15.25 £15.74
% change year-on-year -8.59% -3.11% +12.43%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in County Antrim

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in County Antrim.

Daily rate trend for Agile in County Antrim

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in County Antrim over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in County Antrim

Agile
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 Agile within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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 +5 13 £581 +29.17% 38
Agile
Northern Ireland

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 2 (15.38%) Adobe XD
1 2 (15.38%) InVision
1 2 (15.38%) Sketch
2 1 (7.69%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Functions
2 6 (46.15%) Power Platform
2 6 (46.15%) Serverless
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) DB2
1 1 (7.69%) IDMS
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Designer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) UX Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Excel Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Test Architect
3 1 (7.69%) User Experience Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.69%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Coaching
1 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
1 6 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
1 6 (46.15%) Validation
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Co-Creation
3 3 (23.08%) E-Commerce
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
3 3 (23.08%) User Experience
3 3 (23.08%) UX Design
3 3 (23.08%) UX Research
3 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
4 2 (15.38%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Prototyping
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) COBOL
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Qualtrics