UVM Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring UVM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing UVM 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 1.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

UVM 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 184 134 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 85.19% 91.16% 81.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 66 72
10th Percentile £313 £145 £213
25th Percentile £400 £216 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £338 £469
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% -28.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £613 £650
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £325 £494
% change year-on-year +38.46% -34.18% +9.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 6
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.60 - £11.37
Median hourly rate £19.10 £24.18 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.01% +69.68% -6.56%
75th Percentile £28.22 £52.31 £17.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £78.47 £18.38
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £18.20 £24.18 £15.63
% change year-on-year -24.73% +54.70% +2.49%

UVM
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 UVM within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 24 January 2026. 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 - 3 - - 3
UVM
Northern Ireland

UVM
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Verification Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DSP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) RF Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PCIe
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Adaptive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) MATLAB