Consultant Contracts in County Antrim

Consultant
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Consultant daily rate in County Antrim is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 3.97% 1.55% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.35% 1.64% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £453 -
25th Percentile £510 £458 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £469 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.93% - -
75th Percentile £534 £483 -
90th Percentile £536 £489 -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £520 £469 -
% change year-on-year +10.93% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in County Antrim. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in County Antrim with a recognized job title 138 122 151
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 94.57% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 69 73
10th Percentile £154 £173 £161
25th Percentile £273 £313 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +9.09% -2.94%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £500
90th Percentile £625 £650 £635
Northern Ireland median daily rate £410 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -8.89% +5.88% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 8
10th Percentile £13.29 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £21.56 £12.44 £13.91
Median hourly rate £23.59 £15.75 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year +49.78% +7.93% +5.06%
75th Percentile £34.66 £16.12 £15.94
90th Percentile £70.62 £31.88 £16.87
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £23.59 £15.38 £14.59
% change year-on-year +53.38% +5.40% -15.80%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings that featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in County Antrim

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Consultant in County Antrim

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in County Antrim

Consultant
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 Consultant within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 4 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 6 £520 +10.93% 25
Consultant
Northern Ireland

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the County Antrim region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Payroll
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) OCI
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) Software AG
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) BMC
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) EntireX
3 1 (16.67%) webMethods
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management

Consultant Skill Set
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 (16.67%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (16.67%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) BMC
2 1 (16.67%) Brocade
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Isilon
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Software AG
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) webMethods