Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 0.71% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median daily rate £600 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Belfast

Cloud Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 121 184 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 86.43% 88.89% 82.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 90 62
10th Percentile £263 £263 £145
25th Percentile £370 £325 £167
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £431
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +11.59% +7.81%
75th Percentile £656 £588 £566
90th Percentile £694 £638 £613
County Antrim median daily rate £450 £475 £431
% change year-on-year -5.26% +10.14% +7.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 14
10th Percentile £31.21 £12.31 £21.19
25th Percentile - £13.60 £23.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £16.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +174.75% -33.83% +79.64%
75th Percentile - £17.30 -
90th Percentile £44.83 £24.50 -
County Antrim median hourly rate £43.28 £17.30 £24.18
% change year-on-year +150.19% -28.45% +76.69%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in Belfast

Cloud Operations
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 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus