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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 1.66% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £344 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £382 - -
75th Percentile £406 - -
90th Percentile £420 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £382 - -

All Process & 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 145 165 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 80.11% 91.67% 75.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 107 57
10th Percentile £260 £183 £162
25th Percentile £374 £306 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -17.07% +28.13%
75th Percentile £629 £551 £625
90th Percentile £694 £610 £675
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 16
10th Percentile - £14.14 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.78 £14.78
Median hourly rate £30.25 £19.25 £22.78
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -15.50% +63.77%
75th Percentile £53.75 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile - £28.71 £28.03
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £26.50 £19.25 £21.10
% change year-on-year +37.66% -8.77% +51.69%

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 10 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 - 1 £430 - 4
Larne - 1 £334 - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce