Continuous Delivery Contracts in Northern Ireland

Continuous Delivery
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.40% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £225 - -
25th Percentile £275 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £595
% change year-on-year -9.09% -7.56% +3.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Continuous Delivery 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 147 113 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.45% 75.84% 76.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 57 80
10th Percentile £154 £212 £165
25th Percentile £295 £350 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £406
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £504
90th Percentile £625 £660 £624
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £23.54 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in Northern Ireland

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in Northern Ireland

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in Northern Ireland

Continuous Delivery
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 Continuous Delivery within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 7 £325 - 14
Continuous Delivery
UK

Continuous Delivery
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Software Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Applications Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Junior
3 2 (28.57%) Junior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Junior Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Junior Java Software Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Junior Java Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Junior Software Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) AngularJS
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Avro
1 4 (57.14%) JSON
1 4 (57.14%) React
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
1 4 (57.14%) Web Services
1 4 (57.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Derivative
1 7 (100.00%) Equities
1 7 (100.00%) Equity Derivative
2 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 7 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) User Experience
3 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
3 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) TIBCO