Senior Developer Contracts in County Antrim

Senior Developer
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Senior Developer daily rate in County Antrim is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 3.33% - 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.62% - 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £482 - -
25th Percentile £492 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £615 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in County Antrim. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in County Antrim with a recognized job title 138 125 149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 94.70% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 72 72
10th Percentile £155 £173 £166
25th Percentile £273 £309 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £419
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +7.46% -
75th Percentile £530 £575 £504
90th Percentile £625 £650 £636
Northern Ireland median daily rate £410 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -8.89% +5.88% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 8
10th Percentile £13.64 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.44 £13.91
Median hourly rate £24.18 £15.75 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year +53.52% +7.93% +5.06%
75th Percentile £40.36 £16.12 £15.94
90th Percentile £75.85 £31.88 £16.87
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £24.18 £15.38 £14.59
% change year-on-year +57.22% +5.40% -15.80%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in County Antrim

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in County Antrim

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in County Antrim over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in County Antrim

Senior Developer
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 Senior Developer within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 1 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 - 5 £500 - 19
Senior Developer
Northern Ireland

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the County Antrim region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Moodle
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) HBase
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase
2 1 (20.00%) DB2

Senior Developer Skill Set
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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) Moodle
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) HBase
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) UniData
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) High-Frequency Trading
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase