Microsoft Certification Contracts in County Antrim

Microsoft Certification
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 25 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 2.26% 1.20% 1.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.11% 10.00% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £200 £155
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +29.03% -
75th Percentile - - £163
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £250 £200 £155
% change year-on-year +25.00% +29.03% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
County Antrim

Microsoft Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 37 20 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 27.82% 12.05% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 16
10th Percentile £203 £158 £214
25th Percentile £288 £225 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £363 £435
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -16.67% +16.00%
75th Percentile £613 £484 £491
90th Percentile £668 £580 £525
Northern Ireland median daily rate £513 £425 £438
% change year-on-year +20.59% -2.86% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.63 £15.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £16.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -14.47% +90.00%
75th Percentile £31.88 £16.88 £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £12.25 £16.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -24.62% -14.47% +19.80%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in County Antrim

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in County Antrim

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in County Antrim.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in County Antrim

Microsoft Certification
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 Microsoft Certification within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 18 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 +4 3 £250 +25.00% 5
Microsoft Certification
Northern Ireland

Microsoft Certification
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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) Skype
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Electronics
2 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) MCSD
1 2 (66.67%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) VMware