Finance Contracts in Northern Ireland

Financial
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 77 44 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 48.43% 25.00% 34.82%
As % of the General category 61.11% 39.64% 54.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 26 36
10th Percentile £159 £271 £184
25th Percentile £266 £334 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £328 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £488 £628 £550
90th Percentile £551 £648 £600
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £588
% change year-on-year - -2.13% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £22.50 - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.82 - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile £84.78 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £20.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.80% -18.00% -16.67%

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 126 111 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 79.25% 63.07% 64.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 61 61
10th Percentile £143 £210 £190
25th Percentile £225 £295 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £435 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% -3.33% +28.57%
75th Percentile £497 £569 £550
90th Percentile £575 £645 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 5
10th Percentile £23.17 - £14.35
25th Percentile - £12.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.18 £13.94 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +73.46% -14.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £44.34 £18.00 £17.39
90th Percentile £78.47 £23.54 £19.71
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £25.71 £25.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% +2.84% +21.98%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Northern Ireland

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Northern Ireland

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 2 February 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Northern Ireland

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Northern Ireland

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 2 February 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Northern Ireland

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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 Finance within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 2 February 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 +1 77 £328 -27.22% 28
Finance
UK

Finance
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.90%) Apache
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.60%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) GemFire
Applications
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.30%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.30%) InVision
4 1 (1.30%) Sketch
4 1 (1.30%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.09%) OpenShift
2 5 (6.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.60%) AWS
5 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.60%) Azure
5 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.60%) Serverless
6 1 (1.30%) Figma
6 1 (1.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) DHCP
1 4 (5.19%) DNS
1 4 (5.19%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.60%) Internet
2 2 (2.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) Tableau
2 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.90%) Flink
4 2 (2.60%) Apache Ignite
4 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.60%) Redis
4 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.30%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Git
2 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.49%) JIRA
3 4 (5.19%) Ant
3 4 (5.19%) Maven
3 4 (5.19%) Subversion
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) Selenium
General
1 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (20.78%) Banking
4 12 (15.58%) Financial Institution
4 12 (15.58%) Front Office
5 5 (6.49%) General Ledger
5 5 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.49%) Multimedia
6 4 (5.19%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.19%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (3.90%) Law
8 2 (2.60%) Electronics
8 2 (2.60%) Local Government
8 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.60%) Marketing
8 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (40.26%) Developer
2 22 (28.57%) Analyst
3 11 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 11 (14.29%) Tableau Developer
4 9 (11.69%) Software Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) Business Analyst
5 8 (10.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) Financial Analyst
6 5 (6.49%) Consultant
6 5 (6.49%) Digital Learning Consultant
6 5 (6.49%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) .NET Developer
7 4 (5.19%) .NET Software Developer
7 4 (5.19%) .NET Software Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (5.19%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.19%) C# Software Developer
7 4 (5.19%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Java Software Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.79%) Kafka
2 5 (6.49%) React
3 4 (5.19%) .NET
3 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.19%) Apache Avro
3 4 (5.19%) JSON
3 4 (5.19%) RESTful
3 4 (5.19%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.19%) Web Services
3 4 (5.19%) XML
4 3 (3.90%) Middleware
4 3 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (3.90%) Spring
5 2 (2.60%) JMS
6 1 (1.30%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Derivative
2 16 (20.78%) Equities
3 11 (14.29%) Equity Derivative
4 9 (11.69%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.49%) Driving Licence
5 5 (6.49%) e-Learning
5 5 (6.49%) Fixed Income
5 5 (6.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (6.49%) Podcast
5 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (5.19%) BYOD
7 3 (3.90%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.90%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.90%) OTC Derivatives
8 2 (2.60%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.99%) Windows
2 6 (7.79%) Unix
2 6 (7.79%) Windows 10
3 4 (5.19%) Linux
4 2 (2.60%) Android
4 2 (2.60%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.17%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (29.87%) Agile
3 20 (25.97%) Project Management
4 11 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 10 (12.99%) Clean Code
5 10 (12.99%) Software Engineering
6 9 (11.69%) Analytics
6 9 (11.69%) DevOps
6 9 (11.69%) User Experience
7 8 (10.39%) Data Analysis
8 7 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
8 7 (9.09%) Design Patterns
8 7 (9.09%) High Availability
8 7 (9.09%) OO
8 7 (9.09%) Process Improvement
8 7 (9.09%) Visualisation
9 6 (7.79%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (7.79%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 21 (27.27%) SQL
2 14 (18.18%) Java
3 13 (16.88%) Python
4 4 (5.19%) C#
4 4 (5.19%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.60%) Bash
5 2 (2.60%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (35.06%) Degree
2 4 (5.19%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) PMO
2 2 (2.60%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (1.30%) EMIR
3 1 (1.30%) MiFID
3 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.90%) Docker
3 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.60%) AirWatch
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.39%) Apple
3 5 (6.49%) Adobe
4 4 (5.19%) Oracle
4 4 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.19%) TIBCO
4 4 (5.19%) VMware
5 3 (3.90%) Solace
6 2 (2.60%) Citrix
6 2 (2.60%) SAP
6 2 (2.60%) Sun
7 1 (1.30%) Google
7 1 (1.30%) Qualtrics