Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Problem Solving
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 31 33 22
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 14.03% 21.43% 17.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.49% 25.38% 19.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 15
10th Percentile £211 £159 £210
25th Percentile £341 £231 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £444 £260
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% +70.67% -47.47%
75th Percentile £584 £488 £344
90th Percentile £853 £575 £417
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £450 £260
% change year-on-year +5.56% +73.08% -47.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £18.04 £30.75 -
25th Percentile £21.86 £34.13 £13.23
Median hourly rate £28.22 £37.50 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -24.75% +178.60% +22.64%
75th Percentile £33.83 £40.25 £13.69
90th Percentile £37.19 £47.48 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £28.22 £37.50 £13.46
% change year-on-year -24.75% +178.60% +22.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Problem-Solving 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 188 130 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 85.07% 84.42% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 54 72
10th Percentile £300 £148 £210
25th Percentile £325 £194 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £444 £445
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% -0.28% -3.78%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £536
90th Percentile £638 £615 £625
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £431 £450
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.60 £24.18 £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £29.00 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -40.34% +115.45% -7.76%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.03 £16.00
90th Percentile - £78.47 £18.15
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £17.30 £29.00 £13.46
% change year-on-year -40.34% +115.45% -7.76%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in County Antrim over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in County Antrim

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in County Antrim over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in County Antrim

Problem-Solving
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 Problem-Solving within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 15 December 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 +1 30 £475 +7.04% 78
Larne +2 1 - -
Problem-Solving
Northern Ireland

Problem-Solving
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 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (9.68%) MS Visio
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) AWS
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.45%) WhatsApp
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.23%) Figma
3 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) Firewall
2 3 (9.68%) Cisco Wireless
2 3 (9.68%) LAN
2 3 (9.68%) MPLS
2 3 (9.68%) Wireless
2 3 (9.68%) WLAN
3 2 (6.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) KDB
1 3 (9.68%) Kdb+
2 2 (6.45%) GIS
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.23%) Impala
3 1 (3.23%) Metadata
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 23 (74.19%) Social Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Front Office
4 4 (12.90%) Banking
4 4 (12.90%) Financial Institution
4 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.68%) Investment Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.45%) Electronics
6 2 (6.45%) Legal
6 2 (6.45%) Marketing
6 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Analyst
2 5 (16.13%) Developer
2 5 (16.13%) Senior
3 3 (9.68%) Architect
3 3 (9.68%) Business Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Network Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Support Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (6.45%) IFS Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Installation Technician
4 2 (6.45%) KDB Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Remote Support Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) ERP Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Excel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.23%) Node.js
1 1 (3.23%) Pandas
1 1 (3.23%) React
1 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.45%) Equities
2 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.23%) Derivative
3 1 (3.23%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
2 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
2 5 (16.13%) Service Delivery
3 4 (12.90%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (12.90%) Analytics
3 4 (12.90%) Programme Management
3 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (9.68%) Change Control
4 3 (9.68%) Customer Service
4 3 (9.68%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (9.68%) Data Governance
4 3 (9.68%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (9.68%) Network Management
4 3 (9.68%) Time Management
5 2 (6.45%) CI/CD
5 2 (6.45%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) C#
3 1 (3.23%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) CCNA
2 3 (9.68%) CCNP
2 3 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.45%) CISM
3 2 (6.45%) CISSP
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) NIST
2 2 (6.45%) SLA
3 1 (3.23%) EMIR
3 1 (3.23%) MiFID
3 1 (3.23%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Aruba
2 3 (9.68%) Cisco
2 3 (9.68%) Fortinet
2 3 (9.68%) SAP
3 2 (6.45%) IFS
4 1 (3.23%) Fujitsu
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) Workday