GitHub Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

GitHub
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim citing GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 7 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	26	-	27
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing GitHub	6	0	7
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim	3.70%	-	4.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category	13.95%	-	17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted	1	0	5
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£525	-	£538
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	-	£600
75^th Percentile	£575	-	£675
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Northern Ireland median daily rate	£550	-	£625
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	0	0
10^th Percentile	£29.64	-	-
25^th Percentile	£35.48	-	-
Median hourly rate	£45.20	-	-
75^th Percentile	-	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Northern Ireland median hourly rate	£45.20	-	-

All Cloud Computing Skills
County Antrim

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing cloud computing skills in County Antrim.

	6 months to 7 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	43	40	40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim	26.54%	16.53%	23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted	19	15	16
10^th Percentile	£330	£333	£313
25^th Percentile	£402	£381	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£400	£568
Median % change year-on-year	+37.50%	-29.52%	+51.33%
75^th Percentile	£650	£594	£631
90^th Percentile	£663	£638	£675
Northern Ireland median daily rate	£550	£400	£575
% change year-on-year	+37.50%	-30.43%	+35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted	11	3	0
10^th Percentile	£35.25	-	-
25^th Percentile	£41.30	£21.50	-
Median hourly rate	£44.50	£23.00	-
Median % change year-on-year	+93.48%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£44.85	£31.97	-
90^th Percentile	£45.20	£36.44	-
Northern Ireland median hourly rate	£44.50	£23.00	-
% change year-on-year	+93.48%	-	-

GitHub Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

GitHub Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

GitHub Hourly Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in County Antrim over the 6 months to 7 November 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub in County Antrim

GitHub 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 GitHub within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 7 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Belfast	-	5	£550	-	20
Larne	-	1	-	-
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GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 7 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned 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 citing GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	83.3%	5
2	AWS	66.7%	4
2	Problem-Solving	66.7%	4
4	Agile	50.0%	3
4	AI	50.0%	3
4	Azure	50.0%	3
4	Azure DevOps	50.0%	3
4	Computer Science	50.0%	3
4	Computer Science Degree	50.0%	3
4	Data Modelling	50.0%	3
4	Degree	50.0%	3
4	DevOps	50.0%	3
4	Git	50.0%	3
4	Terraform	50.0%	3
15	Amazon S3	33.3%	2
15	Analytics	33.3%	2
15	AWS Lambda	33.3%	2
15	Business Analytics	33.3%	2
15	Business Intelligence	33.3%	2
15	CloudFront	33.3%	2
15	Copilot Studio	33.3%	2
15	Data Analysis Expressions	33.3%	2
15	Data Transformation	33.3%	2
15	Data Visualisation	33.3%	2
15	Data-Driven Decision Making	33.3%	2
15	Decision-Making	33.3%	2
15	Entra ID	33.3%	2
15	Generative AI	33.3%	2
15	GitHub Actions	33.3%	2
15	Infrastructure as Code	33.3%	2

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	66.7%	4
2	Azure	50.0%	3
2	Azure DevOps	50.0%	3
4	Amazon S3	33.3%	2
4	AWS Lambda	33.3%	2
4	CloudFront	33.3%	2
4	Copilot Studio	33.3%	2
4	Entra ID	33.3%	2
4	GitHub Actions	33.3%	2
4	Microsoft Copilot	33.3%	2
4	Power Automate	33.3%	2
4	Power Platform	33.3%	2
4	PowerApps	33.3%	2
4	Serverless	33.3%	2
4	Snowflake	33.3%	2
16	GCP	16.7%	1
16	GitHub Copilot	16.7%	1
16	OpenShift	16.7%	1