DevOps Contracts in Belfast

DevOps
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 16 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 10.88% 2.42% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.85% 3.30% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 3
10th Percentile £255 £465 £530
25th Percentile £344 £488 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% -8.33% +23.71%
75th Percentile £459 £575 £625
90th Percentile £544 - £640
County Antrim median daily rate £418 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -24.09% -8.33% +23.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £73.23 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 135 91 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 91.84% 73.39% 81.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 56 69
10th Percentile £154 £211 £164
25th Percentile £295 £345 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £515
90th Percentile £625 £663 £638
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 14
10th Percentile £22.50 - £13.40
25th Percentile £23.76 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £32.13 £12.62 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +154.56% -17.25% +34.24%
75th Percentile £58.85 £14.78 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £19.19 £18.12
County Antrim median hourly rate £26.59 £14.19 £15.25
% change year-on-year +87.45% -6.98% -3.11%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Belfast

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Belfast

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Belfast

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (12.50%) GemFire
3 1 (6.25%) Anypoint
3 1 (6.25%) Mule
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (87.50%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (43.75%) Banking
4 4 (25.00%) Front Office
4 4 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (6.25%) Retail
6 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 8 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 8 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Applications Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Junior
5 2 (12.50%) Junior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Junior Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Junior Java Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Junior Java Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Junior Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (31.25%) JSON
2 5 (31.25%) React
2 5 (31.25%) RESTful
2 5 (31.25%) XML
3 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (25.00%) Apache Avro
3 4 (25.00%) Kafka
3 4 (25.00%) Spring
3 4 (25.00%) Web Services
4 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.25%) JMS
5 1 (6.25%) JWT
5 1 (6.25%) OAuth
5 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
5 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (6.25%) RAML
5 1 (6.25%) SAML
5 1 (6.25%) SOAP
5 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Derivative
1 7 (43.75%) Equities
1 7 (43.75%) Equity Derivative
2 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Software Engineering
3 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (43.75%) Clean Code
4 7 (43.75%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (43.75%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (37.50%) User Experience
6 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (31.25%) Microservices
7 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
8 2 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 2 (12.50%) Kanban
8 2 (12.50%) Product Strategy
8 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
8 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 2 (12.50%) Scrum
8 2 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
9 1 (6.25%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) DataWeave
4 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) TIBCO