Validation Contracts in County Antrim

Validation
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim with a requirement for Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Validation over the 6 months to 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Validation 11 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 8.53% - 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.46% - 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £350
75th Percentile £672 - -
90th Percentile £689 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £600 - £350

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Validation 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 96 137 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 74.42% 81.55% 84.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 82
10th Percentile £210 £168 £145
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 £536
Northern Ireland median daily rate £500 £406 £445
% change year-on-year +23.08% -8.71% +9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 10
10th Percentile - £13.25 £10.19
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.92 £10.78
Median hourly rate £14.19 £15.50 £17.37
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% -10.77% +33.62%
75th Percentile £25.22 £17.13 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.43 £21.33
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £13.94 £15.50 £17.37
% change year-on-year -10.06% -10.77% +9.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Validation in County Antrim

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Validation in County Antrim

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Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in County Antrim over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in County Antrim

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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 Validation within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 20 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 - 11 £600 - 5
Validation
Northern Ireland

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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 11 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 10 (90.91%) Azure
3 6 (54.55%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Functions
3 6 (54.55%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Lead
2 5 (45.45%) Platform Specialist
2 5 (45.45%) Power Platform Specialist
3 3 (27.27%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) Coaching
1 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
1 6 (54.55%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft