Equities Contracts in Northern Ireland

Equities
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Equities 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 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Equities 19 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 11.95% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 25.68% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £249 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile £489 - -
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

Equities 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 74 39 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 46.54% 26.17% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 10 35
10th Percentile £148 £181 £208
25th Percentile £267 £270 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £328 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -34.50% +25.00% +25.98%
75th Percentile £500 - £475
90th Percentile £575 £531 £609
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 2
10th Percentile £22.50 - £13.33
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.25 £13.46
Median hourly rate £26.59 £12.62 £13.84
Median % change year-on-year +110.70% -8.83% -27.14%
75th Percentile £67.94 £23.54 £14.15
90th Percentile £80.05 £31.88 £14.22
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Equities
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Equities in Northern Ireland

Equities
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Equities in Northern Ireland

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate histogram for Equities in Northern Ireland

Equities
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 Equities 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 - 19 £325 - 5
Equities
UK

Equities
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:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) OpenShift
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 3 (15.79%) Flink
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) Ant
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) Maven
2 4 (21.05%) Subversion
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 19 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (52.63%) Front Office
3 8 (42.11%) Banking
4 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
4 6 (31.58%) Wholesale Banking
5 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (15.79%) Law
6 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) Java Developer
3 8 (42.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) Software Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Java Software Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Software Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Software Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (21.05%) C# Developer
5 4 (21.05%) C# Software Developer
5 4 (21.05%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Java Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Software Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Applications Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Junior
7 2 (10.53%) Junior Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Junior Java Software Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Junior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) React
2 6 (31.58%) AngularJS
2 6 (31.58%) Apache Avro
2 6 (31.58%) JSON
2 6 (31.58%) RESTful
2 6 (31.58%) Web Services
2 6 (31.58%) XML
3 4 (21.05%) .NET
3 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.79%) Kafka
5 2 (10.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (68.42%) Derivative
1 13 (68.42%) Equity Derivative
2 8 (42.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (15.79%) Credit Risk
3 3 (15.79%) Fixed Income
4 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
1 4 (21.05%) Unix
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Clean Code
2 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (52.63%) Agile
4 9 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
5 8 (42.11%) User Experience
6 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
6 7 (36.84%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (36.84%) DevOps
6 7 (36.84%) High Availability
7 6 (31.58%) Code Quality
8 4 (21.05%) Concurrent Programming
8 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
8 4 (21.05%) OO
8 4 (21.05%) OOA/OOD
8 4 (21.05%) SDLC
9 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
9 3 (15.79%) Data Management
9 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
9 3 (15.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 10 (52.63%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) Kotlin
5 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) TIBCO