Code Quality Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Code Quality (Software Quality)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Code Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 29 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 4 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 2.33% 3.89% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 4.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £426 £225 -
25th Percentile £427 £237 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £323 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.47% - -
75th Percentile £489 £357 -
90th Percentile £492 £389 -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £456 £323 -
% change year-on-year +41.47% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Code Quality 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 137 165 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 79.65% 91.67% 76.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 108 57
10th Percentile £257 £187 £162
25th Percentile £388 £306 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -17.07% +28.13%
75th Percentile £619 £566 £625
90th Percentile £688 £621 £675
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 14
10th Percentile - £14.35 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.78 £13.59
Median hourly rate £22.11 £23.00 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% +1.95% +53.42%
75th Percentile £53.75 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile - £39.96 £29.57
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £17.72 £23.00 £21.10
% change year-on-year -22.96% +9.00% +43.49%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Code Quality job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Code Quality
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Code Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Code Quality

Code Quality
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 Code Quality within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 7 June 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 +6 4 £456 +41.47% 11
Code Quality
Northern Ireland

Code Quality
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Heroku
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Impala
1 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Sqoop
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Release Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce