Azure Contracts in County Antrim

Microsoft Azure
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing Azure 20 14 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 15.27% 8.38% 5.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.56% 33.33% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 6
10th Percentile £505 £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
Northern Ireland median daily rate £563 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +32.35% -5.56% -

All Cloud Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36 42 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 27.48% 25.15% 21.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 22
10th Percentile £460 £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 £538
90th Percentile £680 £650 £580
Northern Ireland median daily rate £569 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +26.39% -10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £13.33 £10.43
25th Percentile - £13.46 £10.64
Median hourly rate - £13.84 £12.70
Median % change year-on-year - +9.04% +26.95%
75th Percentile - £14.15 £13.89
90th Percentile - £14.22 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - £13.84 £12.70
% change year-on-year - +9.04% +26.95%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in County Antrim

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in County Antrim

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in County Antrim over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in County Antrim

Azure
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 Azure within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +6 20 £550 +25.71% 41
Azure
Northern Ireland

Azure
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:

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%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) 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%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.00%) CSS
2 2 (10.00%) CSS3
2 2 (10.00%) HTML
2 2 (10.00%) HTML5
2 2 (10.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) Software Packaging
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Validation
2 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Coaching
4 6 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (15.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (15.00%) System Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Insurtech
6 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (5.00%) Migration
7 1 (5.00%) SDET
7 1 (5.00%) System Integration Testing
7 1 (5.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) C#
2 4 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) 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 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) IBM