AWS Certification Contracts in South Wales

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 41 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 12 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.96% 0.30% -
As % of the Qualifications category 10.71% 1.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £215 - -
25th Percentile £247 £639 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £643 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.27% - -
75th Percentile £480 £646 -
90th Percentile £487 - -
Wales median daily rate £270 £643 -
% change year-on-year -57.98% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Wales

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in South Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 112 89 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 46.28% 26.57% 36.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 65 140
10th Percentile £177 £220 £210
25th Percentile £285 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £537
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +2.42% -2.36%
75th Percentile £489 £646 £616
90th Percentile £613 £725 £669
Wales median daily rate £400 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -23.08% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 16
10th Percentile - £11.01 -
25th Percentile £20.12 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.93 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +31.92% -60.78%
75th Percentile £41.25 £85.75 £20.10
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.80 £49.38
Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -3.00% +25.03% -60.78%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in South Wales

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in South Wales

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in South Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in South Wales

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Cardiff +17 12 £345 -46.27% 6
AWS Certification
Wales

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Metadata
2 3 (25.00%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (8.33%) Big Data
3 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Digital Health
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (25.00%) GCP Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Migration Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Principal Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Junior Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Junior Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) NHS
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 7 (58.33%) Analytics
3 6 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (41.67%) TOGAF
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 4 (33.33%) Data Privacy
5 4 (33.33%) Data Science
5 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) IT Strategy
5 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 4 (33.33%) Metadata Management
5 4 (33.33%) Migration
5 4 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Azure Certification
2 10 (83.33%) Degree
3 9 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (75.00%) Master's Degree
4 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (41.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (33.33%) CITP
7 1 (8.33%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Argo
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Nagios
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Google
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Databricks
3 3 (25.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (8.33%) Remedy