Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Cloud Platform Engineer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Belfast is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with 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 requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 0.71% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% - -
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 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 111 180 144
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 79.29% 86.96% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 90 79
10th Percentile £263 £248 £150
25th Percentile £382 £325 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £494 £445
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +10.96% +11.25%
75th Percentile £656 £588 £575
90th Percentile £694 £626 £616
County Antrim median daily rate £450 £488 £445
% change year-on-year -7.69% +9.55% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 22 11
10th Percentile £20.13 £12.31 £21.19
25th Percentile £23.74 £13.58 £22.68
Median hourly rate £35.85 £15.05 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +138.21% -37.76% +76.69%
75th Percentile £58.28 £16.88 -
90th Percentile £81.81 £24.50 -
County Antrim median hourly rate £44.50 £15.19 £24.18
% change year-on-year +192.96% -37.18% +73.83%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Belfast

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 4 October 2026, Cloud Platform 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 Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
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 RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
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%) 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%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering

Cloud Platform 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:

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
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%) Cloud Operations
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