Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Larne

Microsoft
County Antrim > Larne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Larne 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 9 June 2026, 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
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - 1
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Larne 100.00% - 100.00%
As % of the Vendors category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £334 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £400 £325 £550
% change year-on-year +23.08% -40.91% +191.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £44.50 - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £22.56
% change year-on-year -31.82% -2.48% +45.55%

All Vendors
Larne

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 Larne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Larne 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £334 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £44.50 - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £15.00 £18.75 £22.56
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.89% +45.55%

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Larne 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce