Onboarding Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Onboarding
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.52% - 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.41% - 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

Onboarding 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 81 44 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 34.03% 24.04% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 11 32
10th Percentile £322 £123 £135
25th Percentile £410 £171 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £250 £400
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -37.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £453 £481
90th Percentile £609 £488 £599
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 -
Median hourly rate £15.05 £22.56 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.29% - -
75th Percentile £15.33 £23.94 -
90th Percentile £16.23 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.00% +12.36% +67.92%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in Northern Ireland

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Onboarding

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 21 September 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 - 6 £250 - 14
Onboarding
UK

Onboarding
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 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) HTTP
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DB2
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Account Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Account Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Rollout Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) ERP Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Procurement Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (66.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Application Security
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Contract Management
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Master Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Perl
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) Workday