Banking Contracts in County Antrim

Banking
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in County Antrim. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 12 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +6
Contract jobs citing Banking 36 10 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 24.00% 7.63% 15.57%
As % of the General category 27.69% 16.13% 27.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 16
10th Percentile £233 £366 £156
25th Percentile £325 £428 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £469 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +10.29% -1.73%
75th Percentile £550 £533 £465
90th Percentile £625 £569 £613
Northern Ireland median daily rate £410 £469 £425
% change year-on-year -12.53% +10.29% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £73.23 - -

All General Skills
County Antrim

Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 130 62 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 86.67% 47.33% 56.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 34 54
10th Percentile £153 £190 £161
25th Percentile £273 £284 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £418 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% +4.38% -6.71%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £488
90th Percentile £625 £650 £609
Northern Ireland median daily rate £410 £435 £413
% change year-on-year -5.75% +5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 9
10th Percentile £15.61 £12.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.92 £12.62 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £16.12 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.95% +4.00% +11.59%
75th Percentile £48.48 £19.56 £16.88
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.16
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £26.59 £14.66 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.38% -5.42% +11.59%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in County Antrim

Banking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in County Antrim

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in County Antrim over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in County Antrim

Banking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Hourly rate trend for Banking in County Antrim

Banking
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 Banking within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 2 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 +8 36 £410 -12.53% 16
Banking
Northern Ireland

Banking
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 4 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.56%) GemFire
4 1 (2.78%) Anypoint
4 1 (2.78%) Mule
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.78%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
2 1 (2.78%) AWS
2 1 (2.78%) Azure
2 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.78%) GCP
2 1 (2.78%) GitHub
2 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DHCP
1 3 (8.33%) DNS
1 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Hive
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (5.56%) Big Data
2 2 (5.56%) MySQL
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) Tableau
3 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.78%) Impala
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.11%) Ant
3 4 (11.11%) Maven
3 4 (11.11%) Subversion
4 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 26 (72.22%) Finance
2 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (41.67%) Investment Banking
4 6 (16.67%) Front Office
4 6 (16.67%) Wholesale Banking
5 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Retail
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Developer
2 10 (27.78%) Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Java Developer
5 4 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 4 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
5 4 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 4 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
5 4 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Banking Project Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Spring
2 5 (13.89%) React
3 4 (11.11%) .NET
3 4 (11.11%) Kafka
3 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.33%) JSON
4 3 (8.33%) RESTful
4 3 (8.33%) XML
5 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.56%) Apache Avro
5 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
5 2 (5.56%) Web Services
6 1 (2.78%) CSS
6 1 (2.78%) JMS
6 1 (2.78%) OAuth
6 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.78%) RAML
6 1 (2.78%) SAML
6 1 (2.78%) SOAP
6 1 (2.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Equities
2 7 (19.44%) Derivative
3 6 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
5 3 (8.33%) Blackberry
6 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
6 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
6 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Windows
2 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 5 (13.89%) Unix
3 3 (8.33%) Android
3 3 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (22.22%) Change Management
3 7 (19.44%) DevOps
4 6 (16.67%) Project Management
5 5 (13.89%) Agile
5 5 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (13.89%) Microservices
6 4 (11.11%) Concurrent Programming
6 4 (11.11%) Data Analysis
6 4 (11.11%) Design Patterns
6 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (11.11%) High Availability
6 4 (11.11%) OO
6 4 (11.11%) OOA/OOD
6 4 (11.11%) SDLC
7 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 3 (8.33%) Incident Management
7 3 (8.33%) Regulatory Change
7 3 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) Java
2 11 (30.56%) SQL
3 5 (13.89%) C#
3 5 (13.89%) Kotlin
4 3 (8.33%) Scala
5 2 (5.56%) Python
6 1 (2.78%) DataWeave
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) PMO
2 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) AirWatch
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Apple
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.78%) Qualtrics
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow