Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Decision-Making
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 2 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 0.89% 5.84% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 6.77% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £278 £230 -
25th Percentile £283 £256 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 £300 £250
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +20.00% +60.59%
75th Percentile £324 £469 -
90th Percentile £325 £570 -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £308 £300 £445
% change year-on-year +2.50% -32.58% +185.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.25 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - £35.25 £21.10
% change year-on-year - +67.06% +106.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Decision-Making 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 190 133 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 84.82% 86.36% 85.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 59 79
10th Percentile £311 £145 £210
25th Percentile £363 £159 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -13.89% -
75th Percentile £516 £538 £538
90th Percentile £630 £597 £638
Northern Ireland median daily rate £440 £325 £455
% change year-on-year +35.38% -28.57% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 17 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.60 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% -10.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £52.31 £16.00
90th Percentile £30.46 £78.47 £18.15
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.70
% change year-on-year -28.45% +76.50% -8.67%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
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 Decision-Making within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 28 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 -11 2 £308 +2.50% 25
Decision-Making
Northern Ireland

Decision-Making
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 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality