Developer Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Developer
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Developer daily rate in County Antrim is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 17 33 21
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 7.23% 20.00% 12.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.72% 22.15% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 29 14
10th Percentile £396 £223 -
25th Percentile £410 £419 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +18.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £569 £538 -
90th Percentile £629 £637 £531
Northern Ireland median daily rate £438 £481 £400
% change year-on-year -9.09% +20.31% -20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in County Antrim. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in County Antrim with a recognized job title 195 149 145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 82.98% 90.30% 87.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 78 79
10th Percentile £230 £149 £158
25th Percentile £325 £183 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £441 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +10.31% -20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £529
90th Percentile £625 £617 £638
Northern Ireland median daily rate £481 £445 £400
% change year-on-year +8.15% +11.25% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.57 £22.68 £13.23
Median hourly rate £15.19 £24.18 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year -37.18% +73.83% +26.74%
75th Percentile £16.50 £25.72 £16.00
90th Percentile £24.50 £40.25 £18.15
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £15.33 £22.56 £13.69
% change year-on-year -32.05% +64.85% +24.69%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Developer job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in County Antrim.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in County Antrim

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in County Antrim over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in County Antrim

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in County Antrim.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in County Antrim

Developer
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 Developer within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 3 October 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 17 £438 -7.89% 6
Developer
Northern Ireland

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 3 October 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the County Antrim region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 13 (76.47%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Finance
3 8 (47.06%) AWS
4 7 (41.18%) C#
5 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
5 6 (35.29%) ETL
6 5 (29.41%) Java
6 5 (29.41%) API Development
7 4 (23.53%) Impala
7 4 (23.53%) SQL Optimisation
8 3 (17.65%) Low Latency
8 3 (17.65%) Oracle
8 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
8 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
8 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
8 3 (17.65%) Microservices
9 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
9 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
9 2 (11.76%) HDFS
9 2 (11.76%) Pandas
9 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
9 2 (11.76%) Kdb+
9 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (11.76%) Serverless
9 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (11.76%) Storyboarding
9 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (11.76%) Unix

Developer Skill Set
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 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.76%) Serverless
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Impala
2 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.76%) Apache Hive
3 2 (11.76%) Big Data
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) HBase
3 2 (11.76%) KDB
3 2 (11.76%) Kdb+
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Gradle
1 1 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.76%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Avro
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Pandas
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
2 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Equities
1 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) IVR
2 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
1 6 (35.29%) ETL
2 5 (29.41%) API Development
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Optimisation
4 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
4 3 (17.65%) Low Latency
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) B2B
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Multithreading
5 2 (11.76%) SOA
5 2 (11.76%) Storyboarding
5 2 (11.76%) Use Case
5 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
6 1 (5.88%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (5.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) C#
3 5 (29.41%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Python
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) Ruby
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) HDFS
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Ab Initio