Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Cloud Native
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Belfast. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 7.65% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 26.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £446 - -

All Generic Skills
Belfast

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 50 76 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 29.41% 45.24% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 55 6
10th Percentile £263 £155 £149
25th Percentile £369 £308 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £408 £320
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% +27.34% -20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £488
90th Percentile £675 £599 £519
County Antrim median daily rate £446 £408 £320
% change year-on-year +9.45% +27.34% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 7
10th Percentile £13.88 - -
25th Percentile £15.68 £14.78 £12.25
Median hourly rate £25.86 £15.05 £12.99
Median % change year-on-year +71.83% +15.86% -3.78%
75th Percentile £41.47 £15.33 £23.94
90th Percentile £43.96 - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £25.86 £15.05 £22.56
% change year-on-year +71.83% -33.29% +67.11%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Belfast

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Belfast over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Belfast

Cloud Native
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (38.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Playwright
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (15.38%) Informatics
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.69%) Architecture Governance
7 1 (7.69%) BDD
7 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
7 1 (7.69%) High Availability
7 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
7 1 (7.69%) Scrum
7 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) Go
3 3 (23.08%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) EMIR
1 1 (7.69%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
3 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Google