Contactless Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Contactless
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Contactless in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contactless over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Contactless 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.47% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - £750 £475
% change year-on-year - +57.89% +11.76%

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

Contactless falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 59 67 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 27.70% 51.54% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 41 22
10th Percentile £150 £148 £214
25th Percentile £277 £155 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -35.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £531 £425 £536
90th Percentile £634 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 18
10th Percentile £13.39 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £24.18 £12.25
Median hourly rate £19.10 £26.59 £12.62
Median % change year-on-year -28.17% +110.70% -8.83%
75th Percentile - £67.94 £23.54
90th Percentile £28.04 £80.05 £31.88
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% +14.04% +26.75%

Contactless
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Contactless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Contactless job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Contactless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (100.00%) NFC
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) EMV
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) QA