Data Management Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Data Management
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Data Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Management 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 0.85% 2.30% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 2.84% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £963 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £975 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +105.26% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £988 £488 £475
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £975 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +105.26% +5.56% -18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Data Management 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 211 141 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 89.79% 81.03% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 57 75
10th Percentile £295 £144 £203
25th Percentile £325 £155 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% -3.13% -18.37%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £528
90th Percentile £628 £589 £600
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £356 £400
% change year-on-year +33.33% -10.94% -17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 21 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £15.37 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +27.01%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £16.00
90th Percentile - £40.25 £18.15
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
% change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +27.01%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Data Management
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

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

Data Management
Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Data Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Data Management

Data Management
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 Management within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 21 November 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 2 £975 +105.26% 3
Data Management
Northern Ireland

Data Management
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 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Conflict Management
2 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft