Public Cloud Job Trends in County Antrim

Public Cloud
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in County Antrim. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 41 38
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +27
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 9 4 5
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 2.46% 1.27% 1.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.98% 3.23% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £43,250
25th Percentile £56,250 - £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £56,250
90th Percentile - - £60,750
Northern Ireland median annual salary £57,500 - £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -17.39%

All Generic Skills
County Antrim

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 82 124 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 22.40% 39.24% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 31 28 77
10th Percentile £30,000 £46,713 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,625 £53,125 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £81,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% +41.30% +6.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,241 £103,250 £81,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £50,000 £69,308 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.86% +15.51% +9.09%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Public Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 8 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast +7 2 £57,500 - 3
Public Cloud
Northern Ireland

Public Cloud
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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) Nutanix
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) DHCP
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
1 7 (77.78%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) Internet
2 2 (22.22%) LAN
2 2 (22.22%) MPLS
2 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
2 2 (22.22%) SNA
2 2 (22.22%) WAN
2 2 (22.22%) WLAN
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 7 (77.78%) Business Continuity
2 7 (77.78%) Business Strategy
2 7 (77.78%) Change Management
2 7 (77.78%) Coaching
2 7 (77.78%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (77.78%) High Availability
2 7 (77.78%) ITIL
2 7 (77.78%) ITSM
2 7 (77.78%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (77.78%) Server Management
2 7 (77.78%) Storage Management
2 7 (77.78%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (22.22%) Change Control
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCNP
1 2 (22.22%) CCSP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
1 7 (77.78%) Hyper-V
1 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Dell
1 7 (77.78%) Dell Compellent
1 7 (77.78%) HP
1 7 (77.78%) Nimble Storage
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft