Azure Contracts in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Azure
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 11 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 27 18 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 18.88% 9.33% 5.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 62.79% 29.51% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 8
10th Percentile £524 £236 £421
25th Percentile £525 £349 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £646 £481 £481
90th Percentile £676 £493 £515
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
Northern Ireland

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 43 61 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 30.07% 31.61% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 23 25
10th Percentile £513 £174 £414
25th Percentile £525 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £594 £550
90th Percentile £678 £650 £578
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £13.33 £10.43
25th Percentile - £13.46 £10.64
Median hourly rate - £13.84 £12.70
Median % change year-on-year - +9.04% -9.32%
75th Percentile - £14.15 £13.89
90th Percentile - £14.22 -
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Northern Ireland

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Northern Ireland

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Northern Ireland

Azure
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 within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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 24 £575 +31.43% 50
County Londonderry - 1 £640 - 1
Azure
UK

Azure
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure DevOps
1 10 (37.04%) GitHub
1 10 (37.04%) Power Platform
2 8 (29.63%) Serverless
3 6 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (22.22%) Azure Functions
4 4 (14.81%) AWS
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
6 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) NUnit
2 2 (7.41%) Selenium
2 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Lead
2 8 (29.63%) Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Platform Specialist
3 5 (18.52%) Power Platform Specialist
3 5 (18.52%) Tester
4 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Tester
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Automation Tester
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) QA Automation Tester
6 2 (7.41%) QA Tester
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
7 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Java Software Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) REST
1 9 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 5 (18.52%) Software Packaging
3 4 (14.81%) .NET
4 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.41%) CSS
4 2 (7.41%) CSS3
4 2 (7.41%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) HTML5
4 2 (7.41%) React
4 2 (7.41%) Spring
4 2 (7.41%) Vue
4 2 (7.41%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps
1 10 (37.04%) Validation
2 9 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 8 (29.63%) Software Testing
4 7 (25.93%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) Coaching
5 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 2 (7.41%) Architectural Design
7 2 (7.41%) Domain-Driven Design
7 2 (7.41%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (7.41%) Insurtech
7 2 (7.41%) Integration Testing
7 2 (7.41%) SDET
7 2 (7.41%) System Testing
7 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
7 2 (7.41%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (3.70%) Product Backlog
8 1 (3.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Java
2 5 (18.52%) C#
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (62.96%) Microsoft