Finance Contracts in County Antrim

Financial
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in County Antrim. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 88 28 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 51.46% 21.21% 16.46%
As % of the General category 63.31% 46.67% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 16 16
10th Percentile £259 £148 £156
25th Percentile £325 £291 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £443 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -6.84% -
75th Percentile £555 £577 £590
90th Percentile £613 £650 £660
Northern Ireland median daily rate £418 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -7.22% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £41.60 - -
25th Percentile £51.49 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £73.23 - -

All General Skills
County Antrim

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 139 60 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 81.29% 45.45% 53.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 32 44
10th Percentile £158 £155 £156
25th Percentile £287 £200 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £551 £545 £511
90th Percentile £625 £650 £633
Northern Ireland median daily rate £425 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 8
10th Percentile £12.87 £12.25 £13.86
25th Percentile £14.78 £12.81 £13.91
Median hourly rate £19.03 £16.12 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% +4.00% +11.59%
75th Percentile £40.70 £23.94 £16.72
90th Percentile £75.80 £31.08 £18.55
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £19.03 £16.12 £15.50
% change year-on-year +18.02% +4.00% +11.59%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in County Antrim

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in County Antrim.

Daily rate trend for Finance in County Antrim

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Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in County Antrim over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in County Antrim

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in County Antrim.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in County Antrim

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Hourly Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in County Antrim over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in County Antrim

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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 Finance within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 30 May 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 +2 87 £418 -5.65% 325
Ballymena - 1 - -
Finance
Northern Ireland

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.27%) Apache
2 2 (2.27%) GemFire
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.14%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (28.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (3.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.14%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.82%) OpenShift
2 4 (4.55%) OCI
2 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.41%) Azure
4 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.14%) AWS
5 1 (1.14%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) DNS
1 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.68%) Tableau
3 4 (4.55%) Power BI
4 3 (3.41%) Apache Hive
4 3 (3.41%) Big Data
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.27%) Apache Ignite
5 2 (2.27%) HBase
5 2 (2.27%) Impala
5 2 (2.27%) MySQL
5 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.14%) DB2
6 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (11.36%) Git
2 6 (6.82%) JIRA
3 4 (4.55%) Ant
3 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.55%) Maven
3 4 (4.55%) Subversion
General
1 35 (39.77%) Banking
1 35 (39.77%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (22.73%) Front Office
4 14 (15.91%) Financial Institution
5 12 (13.64%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.82%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.27%) Law
8 2 (2.27%) Legal
9 1 (1.14%) Electronics
9 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Analyst
2 22 (25.00%) Developer
3 12 (13.64%) Business Analyst
3 12 (13.64%) Java Developer
3 12 (13.64%) Software Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) Data Analyst
4 9 (10.23%) Project Manager
5 8 (9.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Java Software Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Business Data Analyst
7 5 (5.68%) C# Developer
7 5 (5.68%) C# Software Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Senior
8 4 (4.55%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.55%) .NET Software Developer
8 4 (4.55%) IT Support
8 4 (4.55%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) Web Services
2 8 (9.09%) Apache Avro
2 8 (9.09%) JSON
2 8 (9.09%) React
2 8 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 6 (6.82%) AngularJS
3 6 (6.82%) RESTful
3 6 (6.82%) Spring
3 6 (6.82%) XML
4 5 (5.68%) Kafka
5 4 (4.55%) .NET
5 4 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (3.41%) REST
6 3 (3.41%) SOAP
7 2 (2.27%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Derivative
2 18 (20.45%) Equities
3 13 (14.77%) Equity Derivative
4 9 (10.23%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (5.68%) Market Risk
6 4 (4.55%) Fixed Income
7 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.41%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.27%) Credit Risk
8 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.82%) Unix
1 6 (6.82%) Windows
2 4 (4.55%) Linux
3 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (21.59%) Project Management
3 14 (15.91%) DevOps
4 13 (14.77%) Change Management
4 13 (14.77%) Software Engineering
5 12 (13.64%) Agile
5 12 (13.64%) Data Analysis
6 9 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (10.23%) Clean Code
6 9 (10.23%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (10.23%) Project Delivery
6 9 (10.23%) Regulatory Change
7 8 (9.09%) Business Analysis
7 8 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 8 (9.09%) User Experience
8 7 (7.95%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (7.95%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (6.82%) Data Governance
9 6 (6.82%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.55%) SQL
2 17 (19.32%) Java
3 8 (9.09%) Python
4 5 (5.68%) C#
5 4 (4.55%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.27%) Scala
6 2 (2.27%) VBA
7 1 (1.14%) C++
7 1 (1.14%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Degree
2 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.41%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.41%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.41%) PMP
4 2 (2.27%) ISEB
5 1 (1.14%) ACCA
5 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.14%) CIMA
5 1 (1.14%) RIBA
5 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) PMO
2 5 (5.68%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.68%) QA
3 3 (3.41%) MiFID
4 1 (1.14%) Basel III
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) HDFS
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.36%) Oracle
3 2 (2.27%) SAP
4 1 (1.14%) Apple
4 1 (1.14%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.14%) Citrix
4 1 (1.14%) Google
4 1 (1.14%) Sun
4 1 (1.14%) Sybase
4 1 (1.14%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.14%) Zscaler