Artificial Intelligence Contracts in County Antrim

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence 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 26 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 4.00% - 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% - 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £400
75th Percentile £470 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £410 - £400

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Artificial Intelligence 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%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in County Antrim

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in County Antrim

Artificial Intelligence
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 Artificial Intelligence 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 - 6 £410 - 48
Artificial Intelligence
Northern Ireland

Artificial Intelligence
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 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (33.33%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Java Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Java Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Zscaler