Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 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 26 28 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 2.39% 0.77% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.20% 3.13% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £525 £635
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £640
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -14.06% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £645
90th Percentile £549 - -
UK median daily rate £492 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -5.84% -0.48% -4.55%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 49 32 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 23.44% 24.62% 23.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 27
10th Percentile £384 £159 £269
25th Percentile £398 £225 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £563
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -35.56% +25.00%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £635
90th Percentile £513 £568 £665
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
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 - -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -1 2 £506 -7.95% 1
County Armagh - 1 £475 -
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) ERP Manager
1 5 (100.00%) Test Manager
2 4 (80.00%) ERP Implementation Manager
2 4 (80.00%) Implementation Manager
2 4 (80.00%) Programme Manager
2 4 (80.00%) Programme Test Manager
2 4 (80.00%) Test Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Contracts Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) ERP
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 5 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Management
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 5 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Testing
2 4 (80.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Functional Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Regression Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) Infor
2 1 (20.00%) IFS
2 1 (20.00%) JD Edwards
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP