KDB Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

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Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring KDB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing KDB 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 1.30% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £565 - -
25th Percentile £569 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £631 - -
90th Percentile £635 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £600 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
County Antrim

KDB falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 35 30 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 15.15% 18.63% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 10
10th Percentile £340 £336 £148
25th Percentile £411 £414 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £310
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% +53.23% -40.95%
75th Percentile £594 £525 £494
90th Percentile £635 £538 £596
Northern Ireland median daily rate £520 £475 £320
% change year-on-year +9.47% +48.44% -39.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - - £13.60

KDB
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

KDB job vacancy trend in County Antrim

KDB
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing KDB

KDB
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 KDB within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 1 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 - 3 £600 - 4
KDB
Northern Ireland

KDB
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Impala
1 3 (100.00%) Kdb+
1 3 (100.00%) Tableau
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) KDB Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Munging
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality