Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Cloud Native
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 3.54% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.07% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £544 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.66% -12.50% -7.69%

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 58 77 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 29.29% 41.40% 22.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 53 6
10th Percentile £104 £155 £149
25th Percentile £325 £300 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £408 £320
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +27.34% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £488
90th Percentile £670 £606 £519
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 20
10th Percentile £14.10 - -
25th Percentile £16.36 £14.78 £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £15.05 £14.31
Median % change year-on-year +17.74% +5.17% +6.00%
75th Percentile £18.68 £62.68 £23.64
90th Percentile £25.38 £78.47 £31.88
UK median hourly rate £40.96 £33.05 £34.21
% change year-on-year +23.93% -3.39% +55.50%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
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 Cloud Native within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 - 7 £446 - 12
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
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 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Architecture Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Go
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
3 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google