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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 11 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 19 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 15.45% 8.54% 6.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.88% 31.82% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 7
10th Percentile £503 £236 £428
25th Percentile £525 £349 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £625 £481 £500
90th Percentile £681 £493 £520
County Antrim median daily rate £563 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +28.57% -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 34 44 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 27.64% 26.83% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 22
10th Percentile £500 £199 £413
25th Percentile £525 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £644 £594 -
90th Percentile £684 £650 £574
County Antrim median daily rate £569 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +13.75% - +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% -
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 19 April 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Power Platform
2 8 (42.11%) Serverless
3 6 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (31.58%) Azure Functions
4 3 (15.79%) AWS
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) DB2
1 2 (10.53%) IDMS
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.53%) Maven
1 2 (10.53%) NUnit
1 2 (10.53%) Selenium
1 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Lead
2 5 (26.32%) Platform Specialist
2 5 (26.32%) Power Platform Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Automation Tester
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Mainframe Architect
3 2 (10.53%) QA Automation Tester
3 2 (10.53%) QA Tester
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Test Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.53%) CSS
2 2 (10.53%) CSS3
2 2 (10.53%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) HTML5
2 2 (10.53%) React
2 2 (10.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.53%) Mainframe
1 2 (10.53%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Validation
2 8 (42.11%) Mentoring
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 6 (31.58%) Coaching
4 6 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (21.05%) Integration Testing
5 4 (21.05%) System Testing
5 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.79%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Architectural Design
7 2 (10.53%) Domain-Driven Design
7 2 (10.53%) Insurtech
7 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) Software Testing
7 2 (10.53%) System Integration Testing
7 2 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
8 1 (5.26%) Defect Management
8 1 (5.26%) Migration
8 1 (5.26%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) COBOL
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Assembly Language
3 1 (5.26%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) IBM