Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 1.05% 0.83% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.88% 3.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £477 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% - -
75th Percentile £539 £575 -
90th Percentile £549 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £550 £640
% change year-on-year -13.64% -14.06% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
County Antrim

Azure DevOps 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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 41 32 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 21.47% 26.45% 25.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 25
10th Percentile £390 £159 £317
25th Percentile £398 £225 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £563
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -35.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £408 £488 £625
90th Percentile £482 £568 £673
Northern Ireland median daily rate £400 £363 £563
% change year-on-year +10.34% -35.56% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £24.04 - -
25th Percentile £25.61 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £28.22 £24.18 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.71% +51.13% +15.59%
75th Percentile £33.83 - -
90th Percentile £37.19 - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £28.22 £24.18 £16.00
% change year-on-year +16.71% +51.13% +15.59%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
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 DevOps within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 16 March 2026. 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 -1 2 £506 -7.95%
Azure DevOps
Northern Ireland

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) ERP Implementation Manager
1 2 (100.00%) ERP Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Implementation Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Test Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Test Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Test Programme Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Infor