Degree Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Academic Degree
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Degree 13 34 33
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 7.26% 14.85% 20.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.41% 36.56% 41.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 17
10th Percentile £146 £300 £142
25th Percentile £200 £305 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £252 £569 £438
Median % change year-on-year -55.69% +30.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £583 £606 £488
90th Percentile £788 £607 £559
Northern Ireland median daily rate £250 £569 £456
% change year-on-year -56.04% +24.66% +3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 3
10th Percentile £28.60 - -
25th Percentile £32.88 £14.78 £21.19
Median hourly rate £41.35 £15.19 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +172.22% -32.67% +62.19%
75th Percentile £45.20 £24.50 £23.94
90th Percentile - £25.42 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £41.35 £15.19 £22.56
% change year-on-year +172.22% -32.67% +62.19%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
County Antrim

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in County Antrim.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 58 93 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 32.40% 40.61% 49.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 35
10th Percentile £250 £200 £183
25th Percentile £425 £306 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.60% -0.95% +17.98%
75th Percentile £694 £606 £600
90th Percentile - £680 £650
Northern Ireland median daily rate £550 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 14
10th Percentile - £14.19 £21.19
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.91 -
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% +4.01% +73.83%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £35.43
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year +74.79% +4.01% +73.83%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Degree job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in County Antrim over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in County Antrim

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in County Antrim over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in County Antrim

Degree
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 Degree within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 11 September 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 -7 11 £252 -55.69% 97
Larne - 2 - -
Degree
Northern Ireland

Degree
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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (15.38%) CATIA
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (7.69%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub
1 3 (23.08%) Power Automate
1 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
1 3 (23.08%) PowerApps
1 3 (23.08%) Snowflake
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.69%) CloudFront
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) Power Query
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.69%) Front Office
4 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Coordinator
3 1 (7.69%) Design Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Implementation Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) CSS
1 1 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (7.69%) HTML
1 1 (7.69%) JMS
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) Material-UI
1 1 (7.69%) React
1 1 (7.69%) Spring
1 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
1 1 (7.69%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Derivative
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
1 1 (7.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Business Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) CAD
5 2 (15.38%) Change Management
5 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Data Transformation
5 2 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Generative AI
5 2 (15.38%) Lakehouse
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Prompt Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Master's Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) A+ Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
3 1 (7.69%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) EMIR
2 1 (7.69%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Apple
3 1 (7.69%) Huawei
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) Sybase