NFC Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Near Field Communication (NFC)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring NFC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods 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 NFC 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.47% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £213 - £521
% change year-on-year - - -9.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

NFC falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 18 20 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.45% 15.38% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 5
10th Percentile £306 £134 £526
25th Percentile £363 £135 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £148 £563
Median % change year-on-year +190.54% -73.69% +230.88%
75th Percentile £500 £165 £625
90th Percentile £528 - £700
UK median daily rate £487 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.60% +5.26% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £24.18 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.97% +93.44% -25.22%
75th Percentile - - £12.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.50% +110.53%

NFC
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Contactless
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