AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.35% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - -
75th Percentile £518 - -
90th Percentile £534 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £534 £500
% change year-on-year -1.69% +6.80% -4.76%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northern Ireland

AWS CloudFormation 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 50 41 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 22.42% 18.22% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 21
10th Percentile £338 £294 £375
25th Percentile £402 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £650 £563 £614
90th Percentile £662 £595 £675
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £31.45 - -
25th Percentile £39.88 £21.50 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £23.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +93.48% - -
75th Percentile - £24.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing AWS CloudFormation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
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 AWS CloudFormation within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 August 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 - 3 £446 - 4
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
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 3 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform