Retail Contracts in County Antrim

Retailing
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in County Antrim. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Retail 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 1.33% - 0.59%
As % of the General category 1.55% - 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £174 - -
25th Percentile £232 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £342 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile £531 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £342 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All General Skills
County Antrim

Retail 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 129 62 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 86.00% 47.69% 57.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 34 55
10th Percentile £153 £190 £156
25th Percentile £273 £284 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £418 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% +4.38% -6.71%
75th Percentile £529 £538 £488
90th Percentile £625 £650 £605
Northern Ireland median daily rate £410 £435 £400
% change year-on-year -5.75% +8.75% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 9
10th Percentile £15.61 £12.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.92 £12.62 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £16.12 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.95% +4.00% +11.59%
75th Percentile £48.48 £19.56 £16.88
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.16
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £26.59 £14.66 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.38% -5.42% +11.59%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in County Antrim

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in County Antrim

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in County Antrim over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in County Antrim

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in County Antrim

Retail
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 Retail within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 3 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 £342 - 17
Retail
Northern Ireland

Retail
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 1 (50.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (50.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Field Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Field Service Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) RAML
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) API Management
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow