AWS Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring AWS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 14 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 7.04% 3.27% 3.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.00% 12.82% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £390 - £506
25th Percentile £431 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.52%
75th Percentile £744 - £566
90th Percentile £890 - £579
County Antrim median daily rate £500 - £538
% change year-on-year - - -6.52%

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 35 39 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 17.59% 25.49% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 12
10th Percentile £321 £338 £200
25th Percentile £436 £463 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +37.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £597 £613 £522
90th Percentile £638 £658 £734
County Antrim median daily rate £520 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -5.45% +37.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.50 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £23.00 - £17.50

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
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Belfast over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Belfast

AWS
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 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (28.57%) Serverless
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
1 3 (21.43%) GIS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) C# Developer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) React
3 1 (7.14%) Playwright
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) IVR
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
1 6 (42.86%) ETL
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) API Development
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) SQL Optimisation
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) B2B
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (14.29%) Data Science
5 2 (14.29%) Data Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 2 (14.29%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Argo
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Fujitsu
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft