DevOps Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

DevOps
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing DevOps 8 13 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 3.83% 8.78% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 9.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £225 -
25th Percentile £463 £300 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - -
75th Percentile £488 £425 -
90th Percentile - £489 -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £375 £640
% change year-on-year +26.67% -41.41% +13.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £73.23 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - £73.23 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 178 136 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 85.17% 91.89% 81.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 67 73
10th Percentile £325 £143 £211
25th Percentile £400 £219 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £330 £488
Median % change year-on-year +43.94% -32.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £610 £650
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £325 £500
% change year-on-year +46.15% -35.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 17 6
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £15.25 - £11.37
Median hourly rate £24.00 £24.18 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +69.68% -8.06%
75th Percentile £46.59 £52.31 £17.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £78.47 £18.38
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £21.55 £24.18 £13.94
% change year-on-year -10.88% +73.46% -10.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in County Antrim

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

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

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 DevOps within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 1 February 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 -4 8 £475 +26.67% 9
DevOps
Northern Ireland

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 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) ERP Implementation Manager
3 1 (12.50%) ERP Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) Pandas
2 1 (12.50%) Polars
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) B2B
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (50.00%) GitOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
5 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Logistics
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) Test Management
5 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Argo
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) HP
1 1 (12.50%) Infor