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 28 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Degree 10 35 29
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 5.71% 15.09% 19.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.52% 36.46% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 17
10th Percentile £141 £300 £142
25th Percentile £188 £305 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £569 £438
Median % change year-on-year -56.04% +30.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £521 £606 £488
90th Percentile £788 £607 £559
Northern Ireland median daily rate £238 £569 £456
% change year-on-year -58.24% +24.66% +3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £26.70 - -
25th Percentile £28.13 £14.78 £21.19
Median hourly rate £32.00 £15.19 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +110.66% -32.67% +62.19%
75th Percentile £36.63 £24.50 £23.94
90th Percentile £38.50 £25.42 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £32.00 £15.19 £22.56
% change year-on-year +110.66% -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 54 96 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 30.86% 41.38% 48.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 35 35
10th Percentile £246 £200 £183
25th Percentile £425 £316 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -4.76% +17.98%
75th Percentile £694 £606 £600
90th Percentile - £672 £650
Northern Ireland median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 26 12
10th Percentile - £14.19 £21.19
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.91 £23.43
Median hourly rate £40.73 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +61.95% +4.01% +73.83%
75th Percentile £43.96 - -
90th Percentile - - £38.64
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 28 August 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
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 28 August 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 -11 9 £250 -56.04% 130
Larne - 1 - -
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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (20.00%) CATIA
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (10.00%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
1 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Junior
2 1 (10.00%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Repair Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) JMS
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Material-UI
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
1 1 (10.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) CAD
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Kanban
4 1 (10.00%) Logistics
4 1 (10.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMP
2 1 (10.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) EMIR
2 1 (10.00%) PMO
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Apple
3 1 (10.00%) Huawei
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Sybase