Software Engineering Contracts in County Antrim

Software Engineering
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 28 33
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 0
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 10 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 6.06% 0.71% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.58% 0.81% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +25.00% +45.45%
75th Percentile £556 - £625
90th Percentile £598 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -36.67% +25.00% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Software Engineering 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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 132 123 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 80.00% 87.86% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 69 94
10th Percentile £144 £200 £175
25th Percentile £163 £260 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £495
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -19.15% +15.06%
75th Percentile £575 £533 £552
90th Percentile £635 £628 £600
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £400 £490
% change year-on-year +18.75% -18.37% +11.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 10
10th Percentile £21.19 £11.08 -
25th Percentile - £12.25 £10.22
Median hourly rate £24.18 £13.46 £10.60
Median % change year-on-year +79.64% +27.01% +18.94%
75th Percentile £28.20 £16.00 £11.36
90th Percentile £42.00 £18.15 £21.37
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £24.18 £13.46 £10.60
% change year-on-year +79.64% +27.01% +5.98%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in County Antrim

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in County Antrim.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in County Antrim

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in County Antrim over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in County Antrim

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in County Antrim.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in County Antrim

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Belfast +8 10 £475 -36.67% 25
Software Engineering
Northern Ireland

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) GemFire
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (20.00%) Redis
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Database Programmer
2 2 (20.00%) DBA
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) JMS
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Beam
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (20.00%) Equities
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Agile
1 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (20.00%) Database Migration
1 2 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
1 2 (20.00%) Database Security
1 2 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
1 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (20.00%) Microservices
1 2 (20.00%) Migration
1 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (20.00%) OO
1 2 (20.00%) OOP
1 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) Solace
1 2 (20.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (10.00%) Google