AWS Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 9 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 71 48 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 14.00% 12.12% 11.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.57% 41.38% 28.46%
Number of salaries quoted 16 14 25
10th Percentile £24,500 £46,713 £43,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,055 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,316 £81,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +29.60% +13.64%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,125 £78,750
90th Percentile - £104,375 £103,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northern Ireland

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 175 116 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 34.52% 29.29% 39.39%
Number of salaries quoted 64 35 105
10th Percentile £36,275 £35,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £59,430 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.79% +18.86% -4.76%
75th Percentile £77,703 £76,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £100,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

AWS
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Northern Ireland

AWS
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 14 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
County Antrim +4 57 £74,316 -8.25% 52
County Armagh - 1 - -
AWS
UK

AWS
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:

Applications
1 31 (43.66%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.82%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.89%) Azure
2 30 (42.25%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (16.90%) GCP
4 9 (12.68%) Nutanix
5 6 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (7.04%) Serverless
7 4 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.63%) Azure Functions
7 4 (5.63%) Cloud Functions
8 3 (4.23%) dbt
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.82%) PaaS
9 2 (2.82%) Pulumi
10 1 (1.41%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.41%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.41%) SaaS
10 1 (1.41%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 15 (21.13%) Remote Desktop
2 9 (12.68%) DHCP
2 9 (12.68%) DNS
3 6 (8.45%) MPLS
4 4 (5.63%) Broadband
4 4 (5.63%) Ethernet
4 4 (5.63%) PSTN
5 2 (2.82%) Firewall
5 2 (2.82%) Internet
5 2 (2.82%) LAN
5 2 (2.82%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.82%) SNA
5 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.82%) WAN
5 2 (2.82%) WLAN
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.82%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.82%) Redis
3 1 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.41%) Parquet
3 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.41%) JMeter
1 1 (1.41%) Locust
1 1 (1.41%) Postman
General
1 54 (76.06%) Social Skills
2 30 (42.25%) French Language
3 26 (36.62%) Swedish Language
4 5 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.63%) Billing
5 4 (5.63%) Finance
5 4 (5.63%) Police
5 4 (5.63%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.23%) Retail
7 2 (2.82%) Legal
8 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (43.66%) Analyst
2 30 (42.25%) Service Analyst
2 30 (42.25%) Service Desk Analyst
3 12 (16.90%) Senior
4 9 (12.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (8.45%) Architect
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Coordinator
7 4 (5.63%) Lead
7 4 (5.63%) Product Manager
7 4 (5.63%) Service Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Consultant
8 3 (4.23%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Technology Consultant
8 3 (4.23%) Trainee
8 3 (4.23%) Trainee Consultant
9 2 (2.82%) Network Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Senior Network Engineer
10 1 (1.41%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) React
2 6 (8.45%) Node.js
3 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.63%) Next.js
3 4 (5.63%) Vue
4 3 (4.23%) Django
5 2 (2.82%) JSON
5 2 (2.82%) Kafka
6 1 (1.41%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.41%) EDI
6 1 (1.41%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.41%) REST
6 1 (1.41%) SOAP
6 1 (1.41%) Web Services
6 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Public Cloud
2 9 (12.68%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (12.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.23%) NHS
5 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) Windows
1 9 (12.68%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.82%) Linux
2 2 (2.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (60.56%) ITIL
2 39 (54.93%) ITSM
3 25 (35.21%) Performance Metrics
4 24 (33.80%) Customer Service
5 23 (32.39%) Mentoring
6 15 (21.13%) Business Continuity
7 14 (19.72%) DevOps
8 10 (14.08%) Agile
8 10 (14.08%) Coaching
8 10 (14.08%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (12.68%) AI
9 9 (12.68%) Business Strategy
9 9 (12.68%) Change Management
9 9 (12.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (12.68%) High Availability
9 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (12.68%) Knowledge Transfer
9 9 (12.68%) Server Management
9 9 (12.68%) Storage Management
9 9 (12.68%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.13%) Python
2 6 (8.45%) TypeScript
3 5 (7.04%) Java
3 5 (7.04%) SQL
4 4 (5.63%) C#
4 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.23%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (49.30%) Degree
2 31 (43.66%) AWS Certification
2 31 (43.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (42.25%) MCSE
4 6 (8.45%) A+ Certification
4 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.45%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.63%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.82%) CCNP
6 2 (2.82%) CCSP
6 2 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (35.21%) QA
2 9 (12.68%) SLA
3 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (21.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (12.68%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) Terraform
2 2 (2.82%) Ansible
2 2 (2.82%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.41%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (1.41%) Grafana
3 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (59.15%) Microsoft
2 30 (42.25%) ServiceNow
3 15 (21.13%) VMware
4 10 (14.08%) Fortinet
5 9 (12.68%) Dell
5 9 (12.68%) Dell Compellent
5 9 (12.68%) HP
5 9 (12.68%) Nimble Storage
6 8 (11.27%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (11.27%) Palo Alto
7 4 (5.63%) Google
8 2 (2.82%) Cisco
9 1 (1.41%) Databricks
9 1 (1.41%) OpenAI