AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Amazon Web Services Engineer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Belfast is £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 0.60% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £430 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Belfast. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Belfast with a recognized job title 156 123 122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 91.79% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 81 77
10th Percentile £363 £150 £173
25th Percentile £398 £263 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £435
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -8.05% +2.35%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £650
County Antrim median daily rate £450 £400 £435
% change year-on-year +12.50% -8.05% +2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 8
10th Percentile - £22.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.92 £12.25
Median hourly rate £40.75 £26.59 £14.19
Median % change year-on-year +53.25% +87.45% -6.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.32 £16.12
90th Percentile - £78.47 -
County Antrim median hourly rate £33.50 £26.59 £15.75
% change year-on-year +25.99% +68.83% +3.28%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in Belfast

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Belfast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Belfast

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 16 April 2026, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Belfast region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle