Microsoft Contracts in County Antrim

Microsoft
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 41 36 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 19.62% 26.67% 13.75%
As % of the Vendors category 45.56% 48.00% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 8
10th Percentile £200 £187 £125
25th Percentile £300 £450 £151
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £550 £174
Median % change year-on-year -32.27% +216.55% -61.39%
75th Percentile £463 £575 £244
90th Percentile £588 £638 £383
Northern Ireland median daily rate £373 £550 £174
% change year-on-year -32.27% +216.55% -60.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 2
10th Percentile £12.55 £15.45 £15.79
25th Percentile £12.66 £19.14 £16.23
Median hourly rate £14.47 £22.56 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -35.88% +31.05% -9.39%
75th Percentile £23.19 £23.94 £17.95
90th Percentile £24.50 - £18.24
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £13.77 £22.56 £17.22
% change year-on-year -38.96% +31.05% -9.39%

All Vendors
County Antrim

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 90 75 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 43.06% 55.56% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 31 22
10th Percentile £192 £143 £155
25th Percentile £325 £184 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £500
90th Percentile £608 £613 £650
Northern Ireland median daily rate £425 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -8.11% +8.82% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 2
10th Percentile £12.59 £12.25 £15.79
25th Percentile £12.66 £17.09 £16.23
Median hourly rate £15.33 £24.18 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -36.60% +40.46% +23.94%
75th Percentile £22.75 £28.03 £17.95
90th Percentile £24.50 £36.90 £18.24
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £14.55 £23.37 £17.22
% change year-on-year -37.74% +35.75% +23.94%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in County Antrim

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in County Antrim.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in County Antrim

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in County Antrim over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in County Antrim

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in County Antrim.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in County Antrim

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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 Microsoft within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 13 July 2025. 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 -5 38 £373 -32.27% 81
Newtownabbey - 2 - - 1
Microsoft
Northern Ireland

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 6 (14.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (36.59%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (34.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.88%) AWS
2 2 (4.88%) Azure
2 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) Firewall
2 5 (12.20%) VoIP
3 1 (2.44%) DNS
3 1 (2.44%) Internet
3 1 (2.44%) Intranet
3 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Ant
1 2 (4.88%) Git
1 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.88%) JIRA
1 2 (4.88%) Maven
1 2 (4.88%) Subversion
General
1 21 (51.22%) Social Skills
2 16 (39.02%) Finance
3 11 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (19.51%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
6 5 (12.20%) Banking
7 4 (9.76%) Financial Institution
7 4 (9.76%) Front Office
8 3 (7.32%) Legal
8 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
8 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
9 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (4.88%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Analyst
2 7 (17.07%) IT Support
3 6 (14.63%) Support Officer
4 4 (9.76%) Business Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) ICT Support
4 4 (9.76%) ICT Support Technician
4 4 (9.76%) ICT Technician
4 4 (9.76%) IT Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Risk Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Support Technician
5 2 (4.88%) .NET Developer
5 2 (4.88%) Administrator
5 2 (4.88%) C# Developer
5 2 (4.88%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Developer
5 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Support Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Smartphone
2 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.88%) Derivative
3 2 (4.88%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.88%) Equities
3 2 (4.88%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.44%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (43.90%) Windows
2 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (4.88%) Linux
3 2 (4.88%) Unix
4 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (12.20%) Fault Analysis
2 5 (12.20%) IT Strategy
2 5 (12.20%) Mathematics
2 5 (12.20%) Patch Management
2 5 (12.20%) Project Delivery
2 5 (12.20%) Project Management
3 4 (9.76%) Change Management
3 4 (9.76%) ITIL
3 4 (9.76%) ITSM
4 3 (7.32%) Business Analysis
4 3 (7.32%) Data Governance
4 3 (7.32%) Data Management
4 3 (7.32%) Risk Management
5 2 (4.88%) Data Protection
5 2 (4.88%) High Availability
5 2 (4.88%) Mentoring
5 2 (4.88%) Process Improvement
5 2 (4.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.32%) SQL
2 2 (4.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Degree
2 7 (17.07%) HND
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) HNC
4 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) PMO
2 3 (7.32%) QA
2 3 (7.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.88%) GDPR
3 2 (4.88%) MiFID
4 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (29.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) AirWatch
2 3 (7.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Avaya
1 5 (12.20%) Citrix
2 1 (2.44%) Bloomberg