Task Automation Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Task Automation
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 32 23
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +13
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 0.41% 0.59% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.74% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £670 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 - £250
75th Percentile £710 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £690 - £250

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Task Automation 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 220 136 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 90.53% 80.47% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 59 70
10th Percentile £266 £145 £206
25th Percentile £325 £165 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £532
90th Percentile £634 £630 £626
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £475 £413
% change year-on-year - +15.15% -15.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 17 9
10th Percentile £12.44 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.78 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +31.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.38 £16.00
90th Percentile - £41.65 £18.15
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
% change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +31.70%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Task Automation

Task Automation
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 Task Automation within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 7 November 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 1 £690 - 2
Task Automation
Northern Ireland

Task Automation
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 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
1 1 (100.00%) KDB
1 1 (100.00%) Kdb+
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality