AWS Contracts in Northern Ireland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 4 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.74% 5.45% 6.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.81% 17.74% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 8
10th Percentile £641 £538 £489
25th Percentile £649 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £556
90th Percentile - - £613
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +10.48%

All Cloud Skills
Northern Ireland

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 37 62 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 25.34% 30.69% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 26
10th Percentile £469 £178 £414
25th Percentile £525 £403 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.74% -5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £646 £588 £538
90th Percentile £676 £650 £578
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £13.33 £10.43
25th Percentile - £13.46 £10.64
Median hourly rate - £13.84 £12.70
Median % change year-on-year - +9.04% +26.95%
75th Percentile - £14.15 £13.89
90th Percentile - £14.22 -
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.07%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend 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 3 May 2024. 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 -3 3 £675 +12.50% 57
County Londonderry - 1 £640 - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Coaching
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft