High Availability Contracts in County Antrim

High Availability
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim requiring High Availability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited High Availability over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 19 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing High Availability 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 5.33% 2.29% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.80% 3.06% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £325 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

High Availability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 138 98 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 92.00% 74.81% 80.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 55 69
10th Percentile £154 £211 £164
25th Percentile £295 £353 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £515
90th Percentile £625 £665 £638
Northern Ireland median daily rate £410 £506 £413
% change year-on-year -19.01% +22.73% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £14.19 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +87.45% -6.98% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £25.22 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
% change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in County Antrim

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in County Antrim

High Availability
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 High Availability within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 2 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 8 £325 - 8
High Availability
Northern Ireland

High Availability
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Flink
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Ant
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) Maven
1 4 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Front Office
2 4 (50.00%) Wholesale Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (37.50%) Law
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Junior
4 1 (12.50%) Junior DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Oracle DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Equities
2 4 (50.00%) Derivative
2 4 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
2 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (37.50%) Credit Risk
3 3 (37.50%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Unix
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (50.00%) OO
1 4 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
1 4 (50.00%) SDLC
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) Data Management
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle