Azure Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Microsoft Azure
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 21 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -17 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure 10 9 20
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 5.38% 6.92% 15.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.81% 27.27% 52.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 13
10th Percentile £453 - £500
25th Percentile £456 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +33.33%
75th Percentile £522 £509 £625
90th Percentile £543 £549 £675
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +33.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Belfast

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 42 33 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 22.58% 25.38% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 26
10th Percentile £390 £167 £313
25th Percentile - £225 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £556
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -34.83% +11.25%
75th Percentile £426 £488 £625
90th Percentile £476 £563 £669
County Antrim median daily rate £400 £363 £556
% change year-on-year +10.34% -34.83% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £23.52 - -
25th Percentile £24.31 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £26.11 £24.18 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +51.13% +15.59%
75th Percentile £27.42 - -
90th Percentile £27.90 - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £28.22 £24.18 £16.00
% change year-on-year +16.71% +51.13% +15.59%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Azure job vacancy trend in Belfast

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Azure

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) ERP Implementation Manager
3 2 (20.00%) ERP Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Implementation Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Test Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Test Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Test Programme Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) IT Architect
4 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) WPF
2 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (20.00%) Playwright
2 2 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Testing
4 2 (20.00%) B2B
4 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) Fintech
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Management
4 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP ALM
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) HP
1 2 (20.00%) Infor
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware