Software Engineering Contracts in County Antrim

Software Engineering
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 24 26
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -9
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 2.33% 1.22% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 1.50% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% -20.00% +14.42%
75th Percentile £694 - -
90th Percentile £698 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £675 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +68.75% -20.00% +17.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 96 133 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 74.42% 81.10% 83.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 84
10th Percentile £210 £168 £146
25th Percentile £322 £253 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £406 £435
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -6.61% +8.75%
75th Percentile £575 £511 £500
90th Percentile £668 £630 £546
Northern Ireland median daily rate £500 £406 £438
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 11
10th Percentile - £13.25 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.92 £10.26
Median hourly rate £14.19 £15.50 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% -1.52% +21.08%
75th Percentile £25.22 £17.13 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.43 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £13.94 £15.50 £15.74
% change year-on-year -10.06% -1.52% +12.43%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in County Antrim

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in County Antrim

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in County Antrim

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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 +6 3 £675 +68.75% 35
Software Engineering
Northern Ireland

Software Engineering
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 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft