AWS Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring AWS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 28 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 14 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.81% 2.70% 2.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.84% 11.36% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £390 - £506
25th Percentile £431 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.52%
75th Percentile £744 - £566
90th Percentile £890 - £579
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -2.54%

All Cloud Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 37 44 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.35% 23.78% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 15
10th Percentile £321 £375 £200
25th Percentile £436 £463 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £597 £625 £500
90th Percentile £638 £675 £685
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.50 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £17.50
75th Percentile £24.50 - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Northern Ireland

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

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

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Northern Ireland

AWS
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 within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
County Antrim 0 14 £500 - 32
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (28.57%) Serverless
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
1 3 (21.43%) GIS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) C# Developer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) React
3 1 (7.14%) Playwright
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) IVR
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
1 6 (42.86%) ETL
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) API Development
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) SQL Optimisation
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) B2B
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (14.29%) Data Science
5 2 (14.29%) Data Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 2 (14.29%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Argo
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Fujitsu
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft