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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -21 -4 +5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 39 26 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 4.10% 10.92% 15.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.02% 45.61% 43.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 54
10th Percentile £33,050 £42,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £74,688 £60,000 £79,106
90th Percentile £80,411 - £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -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 205 57 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 21.56% 23.95% 34.68%
Number of salaries quoted 70 25 151
10th Percentile £32,000 £40,400 £32,750
25th Percentile £39,500 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £65,156 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,754 £91,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -12 39 £58,750 +6.82% 61
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) Azure
2 10 (25.64%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (20.51%) Nutanix
4 7 (17.95%) GCP
5 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (2.56%) dbt
6 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.56%) PaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Pulumi
6 1 (2.56%) Sentry
6 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) DHCP
1 8 (20.51%) DNS
1 8 (20.51%) Remote Desktop
2 5 (12.82%) MPLS
3 4 (10.26%) Broadband
3 4 (10.26%) Ethernet
3 4 (10.26%) Firewall
3 4 (10.26%) PSTN
4 2 (5.13%) Internet
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.56%) SMS
5 1 (2.56%) SNA
5 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.56%) VLAN
5 1 (2.56%) VoIP
5 1 (2.56%) VPN
5 1 (2.56%) WAN
5 1 (2.56%) Wireless
5 1 (2.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.56%) Big Data
1 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Git
General
1 30 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.08%) French Language
3 6 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (10.26%) Billing
4 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
5 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Finance
6 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.56%) Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Law
7 1 (2.56%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Analyst
1 9 (23.08%) Service Analyst
1 9 (23.08%) Service Desk Analyst
2 8 (20.51%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Coordinator
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Security Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Security Incident Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) React
2 3 (7.69%) CSS
2 3 (7.69%) HTML
3 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.13%) Django
3 2 (5.13%) LangChain
3 2 (5.13%) PyTorch
3 2 (5.13%) React Native
3 2 (5.13%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.56%) Flask
4 1 (2.56%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.56%) Next.js
4 1 (2.56%) Node.js
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.56%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (2.56%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (2.56%) TanStack
4 1 (2.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 8 (20.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Windows
2 9 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.69%) Linux
4 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) ITIL
1 17 (43.59%) ITSM
2 15 (38.46%) Mentoring
3 9 (23.08%) Agile
3 9 (23.08%) Customer Service
3 9 (23.08%) Performance Metrics
3 9 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 8 (20.51%) Business Continuity
4 8 (20.51%) Business Strategy
4 8 (20.51%) Change Management
4 8 (20.51%) Coaching
4 8 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (20.51%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (20.51%) High Availability
4 8 (20.51%) Knowledge Transfer
4 8 (20.51%) Server Management
4 8 (20.51%) Storage Management
5 6 (15.38%) AI
5 6 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (17.95%) SQL
2 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
3 4 (10.26%) Java
4 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.69%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.13%) C#
6 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Degree
2 12 (30.77%) AWS Certification
3 10 (25.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (23.08%) MCSE
5 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.13%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (5.13%) GCFA
7 2 (5.13%) GCIA
7 2 (5.13%) GCIH
7 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (2.56%) CCNP
8 1 (2.56%) CCSP
8 1 (2.56%) CEH
8 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.56%) ECIH
8 1 (2.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) QA
2 8 (20.51%) SLA
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Active Directory
2 8 (20.51%) Hyper-V
2 8 (20.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) QRadar
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (23.08%) ServiceNow
3 8 (20.51%) Dell
3 8 (20.51%) Dell Compellent
3 8 (20.51%) HP
3 8 (20.51%) Nimble Storage
3 8 (20.51%) VMware
4 6 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (12.82%) Fortinet
6 4 (10.26%) Palo Alto
7 2 (5.13%) Splunk
8 1 (2.56%) Cisco
8 1 (2.56%) Google
8 1 (2.56%) OpenAI