Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Data Strategy
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 0.83% 0.59% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.74% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £963 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £975 - -
75th Percentile £988 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £975 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Data Strategy 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 217 136 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 90.04% 80.47% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 56 74
10th Percentile £277 £144 £202
25th Percentile £325 £161 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% +3.13% -18.37%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £529
90th Percentile £623 £589 £600
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £438 £400
% change year-on-year +8.57% +9.38% -17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 17 9
10th Percentile £12.44 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £15.19 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +31.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.38 £16.00
90th Percentile - £41.65 £18.15
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
% change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +31.70%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

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

Data Strategy
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 Strategy within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 17 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 -1 2 £975 - 2
Data Strategy
Northern Ireland

Data Strategy
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SAFe Agilist
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