Microsoft Contracts in Northern Ireland

Microsoft
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 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
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 35 37 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 18.62% 22.02% 13.97%
As % of the Vendors category 43.75% 45.68% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 6
10th Percentile £200 £200 £163
25th Percentile £300 £525 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £550 £189
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +191.39% -56.23%
75th Percentile £438 £645 £331
90th Percentile £538 £688 £388
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile - £16.27 £14.05
25th Percentile £12.66 £21.19 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.56 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +45.55% -18.42%
75th Percentile £24.50 £23.94 £16.50
90th Percentile - £35.07 £17.66
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £15.58 £23.50
% change year-on-year +28.41% -33.72% +30.56%

All Vendors
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 80 81 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 42.55% 48.21% 36.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 34 25
10th Percentile £179 £172 £158
25th Percentile £325 £240 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +29.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £522 £640 £500
90th Percentile £588 £675 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 5
10th Percentile £12.66 £12.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.37 £15.83 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £22.56 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.89% +45.55% +11.59%
75th Percentile £24.06 £24.18 £16.50
90th Percentile £24.50 £33.85 £17.66
UK median hourly rate £26.39 £22.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +17.27% -47.06% +97.67%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Northern Ireland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Northern Ireland

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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 Microsoft within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
County Antrim -7 34 £325 -40.91% 100
County Down +3 1 - - 4
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (37.14%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (37.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.86%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Ant
1 4 (11.43%) Git
1 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
1 4 (11.43%) Maven
1 4 (11.43%) Subversion
2 2 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 18 (51.43%) Finance
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Banking
3 7 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Front Office
5 4 (11.43%) Wholesale Banking
6 3 (8.57%) Financial Institution
6 3 (8.57%) Legal
6 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) IT Support
3 5 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Support Officer
4 4 (11.43%) .NET Developer
4 4 (11.43%) .NET Software Developer
4 4 (11.43%) .NET Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (11.43%) C# Developer
4 4 (11.43%) C# Software Developer
4 4 (11.43%) C# Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Risk Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) IT Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Derivative
1 4 (11.43%) Equities
1 4 (11.43%) Equity Derivative
1 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (11.43%) Linux
3 4 (11.43%) Unix
4 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.86%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (14.29%) Patch Management
2 5 (14.29%) Project Management
3 4 (11.43%) Change Management
3 4 (11.43%) Concurrent Programming
3 4 (11.43%) Design Patterns
3 4 (11.43%) High Availability
3 4 (11.43%) OO
3 4 (11.43%) OOA/OOD
3 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
3 4 (11.43%) SDLC
3 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
4 3 (8.57%) Business Analysis
4 3 (8.57%) ITIL
4 3 (8.57%) ITSM
4 3 (8.57%) Mathematics
4 3 (8.57%) Risk Analysis
4 3 (8.57%) Risk Management
5 2 (5.71%) Data Management
5 2 (5.71%) Facilities Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Degree
2 5 (14.29%) HND
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) PMO
1 3 (8.57%) QA
1 3 (8.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.71%) MiFID
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (2.86%) Apple
1 1 (2.86%) Bloomberg