AWS Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 27 26
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 32 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 14.29% 1.32% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 66.67% 5.26% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £387 - £573
25th Percentile £393 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.70%
75th Percentile - - £663
90th Percentile £403 - £678
Northern Ireland median daily rate £400 - £640
% change year-on-year - - +11.30%

All Cloud Computing Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 48 38 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 21.43% 25.00% 25.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 23
10th Percentile £333 £171 £200
25th Percentile £390 £231 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -27.50% -
75th Percentile £415 £553 £613
90th Percentile £608 £632 £650
Northern Ireland median daily rate £400 £363 £500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -27.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £24.04 - £16.03
25th Percentile £25.61 £22.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.22 £24.18 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.71% +44.36% +21.00%
75th Percentile £33.83 - £18.06
90th Percentile £37.19 - £18.48
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £28.22 £24.18 £16.75
% change year-on-year +16.71% +44.36% +21.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

AWS job vacancy trend in County Antrim

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing AWS

AWS
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast +21 32 £400 - 111
AWS
Northern Ireland

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Amazon S3
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (9.38%) Figma
4 3 (9.38%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) Serverless
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Amazon QuickSight
1 7 (21.88%) Parquet
1 7 (21.88%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Postman
2 5 (15.63%) GitLab
3 3 (9.38%) Selenium
4 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (28.13%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) Senior
3 7 (21.88%) Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Test Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (15.63%) C# Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Data Migration Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Migration Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Test Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Test Data Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
8 2 (6.25%) UI Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) Apache Avro
1 7 (21.88%) JSON
2 5 (15.63%) .NET
2 5 (15.63%) GraphQL
3 4 (12.50%) React
4 3 (9.38%) Next.js
4 3 (9.38%) Playwright
4 3 (9.38%) REST
5 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (3.13%) CSS
5 1 (3.13%) Node.js
5 1 (3.13%) Pandas
5 1 (3.13%) Polars
5 1 (3.13%) PySpark
5 1 (3.13%) pytest
5 1 (3.13%) Spring
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Reference Data
1 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) ETL
2 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 8 (25.00%) Validation
4 7 (21.88%) API Testing
4 7 (21.88%) B2B
4 7 (21.88%) Data Analysis
4 7 (21.88%) DevOps
5 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (18.75%) Data Migration
5 6 (18.75%) Data Validation
5 6 (18.75%) Migration
6 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
7 4 (12.50%) API Development
7 4 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (12.50%) DevSecOps
7 4 (12.50%) Front End Development
7 4 (12.50%) GitOps
7 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (12.50%) SQL Optimisation
7 4 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) SQL
2 11 (34.38%) C#
3 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
4 6 (18.75%) Python
5 3 (9.38%) Java
5 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
1 5 (15.63%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle