Automated Trading Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Automated Trading
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Automated Trading skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Automated Trading 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £600
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Automated Trading 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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 220 128 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 90.91% 74.42% 83.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 62 75
10th Percentile £254 £148 £205
25th Percentile £325 £183 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% +3.13% -18.37%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £500
90th Percentile £625 £648 £583
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 17 9
10th Percentile £12.85 £17.61 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.78 £21.19 £13.23
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +22.64%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £13.91
90th Percentile - £40.25 £14.73
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £41.65
% change year-on-year -40.16% +0.91% +51.45%

Automated Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Automated Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Automated Trading in Northern Ireland

Automated Trading
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Automated Trading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Automated Trading

Automated Trading
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Trading within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
County Antrim - 1 - -
Automated Trading
UK

Automated Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA