AWS Contracts in Cardiff

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 18 28
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS 19 27 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 8.92% 8.04% 5.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.59% 26.73% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 26
10th Percentile £313 £219 -
25th Percentile £369 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +26.32% +12.09%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £536
90th Percentile £689 - £644
South Wales median daily rate £558 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -8.98% +16.67% +1.94%

All Cloud Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 108 101 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 50.70% 30.06% 31.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 86 120
10th Percentile £188 £201 £324
25th Percentile £372 £350 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +6.58% +18.01%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £554
90th Percentile £645 £663 £639
South Wales median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £15.54
25th Percentile £12.25 £16.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £12.50 £16.45 £17.13
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% -3.97% +2.16%
75th Percentile £12.75 £16.67 £18.47
90th Percentile - - £19.01
South Wales median hourly rate £12.50 £14.25 £13.90
% change year-on-year -12.28% +2.50% -36.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Cardiff over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.79%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
6 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) VPN
2 5 (26.32%) Firewall
2 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) MySQL
2 7 (36.84%) Relational Database
3 5 (26.32%) RDBMS
3 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
1 3 (15.79%) GitLab
1 3 (15.79%) Postman
2 2 (10.53%) Burp Suite
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.26%) AppScan
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Selenium
3 1 (5.26%) Subversion
General
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) DBA
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Administrator
3 4 (21.05%) MySQL DBA
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Administrator
4 3 (15.79%) React Developer
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 2 (10.53%) PHP Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (21.05%) Vue
3 3 (15.79%) Laravel
4 2 (10.53%) .NET
4 2 (10.53%) React
4 2 (10.53%) React Native
5 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (5.26%) Kafka
5 1 (5.26%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Educational Technology
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Project Management
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 6 (31.58%) Change Control
5 5 (26.32%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.79%) Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (15.79%) Data Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
7 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) Application Security
8 2 (10.53%) Blue-Green Deployment
8 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
8 2 (10.53%) Front End Development
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (10.53%) OWASP
8 2 (10.53%) Security Testing
8 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) PHP
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) C#
2 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SANS
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 7 (36.84%) Ansible
2 7 (36.84%) Grafana
2 7 (36.84%) Nagios
3 5 (26.32%) Graylog
3 5 (26.32%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.26%) HP Fortify
5 1 (5.26%) Nessus
5 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.26%) Puppet
5 1 (5.26%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) Checkmarx
4 1 (5.26%) New Relic
4 1 (5.26%) PagerDuty
4 1 (5.26%) Rackspace
4 1 (5.26%) Veracode
4 1 (5.26%) VMware