AWS Engineer Contracts in South Wales

Amazon Web Services Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in South Wales is £666 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - -18
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.58% - 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% - 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £644 - £463
25th Percentile £652 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £679 - £563
90th Percentile £686 - £613
Wales median daily rate £666 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South Wales with a recognized job title 310 506 897
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.34% 95.29% 96.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 391 671
10th Percentile £161 £172 £200
25th Percentile £345 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £564 £566
90th Percentile £644 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 39
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.85 £11.15
25th Percentile £15.20 £16.60 £12.24
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +13.77%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.98 £26.38
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.25 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £20.08
% change year-on-year +5.21% -9.64% +21.67%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in South Wales

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in South Wales

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Cardiff - 2 £666 - 1
AWS Engineer
Wales

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Wales region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Graylog
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) AppScan
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SANS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Graylog
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
2 1 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Veracode