Agile Contracts in County Antrim

Agile Software Development
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing Agile 22 13 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 14.67% 9.85% 6.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.94% 13.13% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 6
10th Percentile £248 £482 £356
25th Percentile £325 £519 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £581 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% +29.17% -7.22%
75th Percentile £466 £625 £478
90th Percentile £634 £688 £488
Northern Ireland median daily rate £425 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -29.17% +41.18% -11.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £33.55 - -
25th Percentile £41.12 - -
Median hourly rate £61.02 - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £61.02 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Agile 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 138 99 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 92.00% 75.00% 80.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 56 69
10th Percentile £154 £211 £164
25th Percentile £295 £345 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £515
90th Percentile £625 £663 £638
Northern Ireland median daily rate £410 £500 £406
% change year-on-year -18.00% +23.08% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £14.19 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +87.45% -6.98% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £25.22 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
% change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in County Antrim

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in County Antrim.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in County Antrim

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in County Antrim over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly 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 1 May 2025. 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 0 22 £425 -26.88% 138
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) OpenShift
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) Flink
3 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 17 (77.27%) Finance
2 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (22.73%) Banking
5 4 (18.18%) Front Office
5 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
6 3 (13.64%) Law
7 2 (9.09%) General Ledger
7 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
7 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Software Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Applications Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Junior
5 2 (9.09%) Junior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Junior Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Junior Java Software Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Junior Java Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Junior Software Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) React
2 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 4 (18.18%) Apache Avro
2 4 (18.18%) JSON
2 4 (18.18%) RESTful
2 4 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 4 (18.18%) Web Services
2 4 (18.18%) XML
3 3 (13.64%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Equities
2 7 (31.82%) Derivative
2 7 (31.82%) Equity Derivative
3 6 (27.27%) Product Ownership
4 3 (13.64%) Credit Risk
4 3 (13.64%) Fixed Income
5 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
5 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
6 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (45.45%) Clean Code
2 10 (45.45%) DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
4 7 (31.82%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (31.82%) User Experience
5 5 (22.73%) Code Quality
6 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 4 (18.18%) Project Management
6 4 (18.18%) Scrum
6 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Business Analysis
7 3 (13.64%) Change Management
7 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
7 3 (13.64%) Data Management
7 3 (13.64%) High Availability
7 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
7 3 (13.64%) Microservices
7 3 (13.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (40.91%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Kotlin
3 3 (13.64%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) PMO
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Ab Initio
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.55%) Qualtrics
1 1 (4.55%) TIBCO