Azure Contracts in Belfast

Microsoft Azure
County Antrim > Belfast

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 11 21
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Azure 20 15 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 16.67% 9.20% 6.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.56% 34.88% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 6
10th Percentile - £236 £425
25th Percentile £525 £349 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £625 £481 £491
90th Percentile £675 £493 £525
County Antrim median daily rate £550 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +25.71% -2.78% -

All Cloud Skills
Belfast

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36 43 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 30.00% 26.38% 21.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 23
10th Percentile £463 £199 £413
25th Percentile £525 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £550
90th Percentile £680 £650 £579
County Antrim median daily rate £563 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +12.50% - +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £13.33 -
25th Percentile - £13.46 £10.75
Median hourly rate - £13.84 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year - +20.37% -17.86%
75th Percentile - £14.15 £12.25
90th Percentile - £14.22 -
County Antrim median hourly rate - £13.84 £12.70
% change year-on-year - +9.04% +26.95%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Belfast

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Belfast.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Belfast

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Belfast over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Belfast

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 10 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (40.00%) Serverless
3 6 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (30.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) NUnit
2 2 (10.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Lead
2 5 (25.00%) Platform Specialist
2 5 (25.00%) Power Platform Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) QA Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) QA Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) REST
2 3 (15.00%) Software Packaging
2 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) CSS3
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) HTML5
3 2 (10.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Validation
2 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) Coaching
3 6 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
6 2 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Insurtech
6 2 (10.00%) Integration Testing
6 2 (10.00%) SDET
6 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) System Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) C#
1 5 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft