Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.48% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -9.48% +10.48% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northern Ireland

Amazon EC2 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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 51 35 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 24.40% 24.82% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 28
10th Percentile £386 £167 £276
25th Percentile - £225 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £556
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -34.83% +23.61%
75th Percentile £478 £488 £630
90th Percentile £503 £563 £661
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £24.04 - -
25th Percentile £25.61 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £28.22 £24.18 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.71% +51.13% +15.59%
75th Percentile £33.83 - -
90th Percentile £37.19 - -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -18.64%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. 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
County Antrim - 1 - - 1
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java