AWS Contracts in Belfast

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing AWS 6 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 4.08% 2.42% 4.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.67% 8.11% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile - - £538
25th Percentile £463 £663 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £500 £688 £650
90th Percentile £545 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -29.63% +12.50% +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
Belfast

AWS 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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36 37 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 24.49% 29.84% 25.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 19
10th Percentile £189 £465 £199
25th Percentile £292 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.44% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £510 £631 £594
90th Percentile £548 £676 £650
County Antrim median daily rate £470 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -16.44% +12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.33
25th Percentile £22.50 - £13.46
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £13.84
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.37%
75th Percentile - - £14.15
90th Percentile - - £14.22
County Antrim median hourly rate £24.18 - £13.84
% change year-on-year - - +9.04%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Belfast

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Belfast.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Belfast

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 (66.67%) Anypoint
1 4 (66.67%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) MuleSoft Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) JSON
1 4 (66.67%) OpenAPI
1 4 (66.67%) RAML
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
1 4 (66.67%) SOAP
1 4 (66.67%) Swagger
1 4 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) JMS
2 1 (16.67%) JWT
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) API Development
1 4 (66.67%) API Management
1 4 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 4 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) DataWeave
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow