Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Data Engineering
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 0.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Data Engineering 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 190 130 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 85.20% 84.42% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 54 72
10th Percentile £301 £148 £210
25th Percentile £334 £194 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £444 £445
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% -0.28% -1.11%
75th Percentile £517 £538 £536
90th Percentile £638 £615 £625
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £431 £450
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.60 £24.18 £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £29.00 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -40.34% +115.45% -5.11%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.03 £16.00
90th Percentile - £78.47 £18.15
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £17.30 £29.00 £13.46
% change year-on-year -40.34% +115.45% -5.11%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
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 Data Engineering within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 16 December 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 - 1 - - 1
Data Engineering
Northern Ireland

Data Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL