AWS Contracts in South Wales

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 22 24
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing AWS 28 20 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 11.67% 5.97% 6.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.17% 15.50% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 29
10th Percentile £240 £322 £234
25th Percentile £278 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £558 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.40% -7.08% +13.74%
75th Percentile £588 £662 £675
90th Percentile £600 £689 £700
Wales median daily rate £461 £558 £575
% change year-on-year -17.40% -3.04% +6.98%

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 96 129 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 40.00% 38.51% 25.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 110 110
10th Percentile £194 £143 £162
25th Percentile £255 £336 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -19.50% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £508 £550 £609
90th Percentile £600 £625 £664
Wales median daily rate £405 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -19.00% +8.11% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £16.00 - £12.53
25th Percentile £16.63 £12.25 £12.56
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -12.28% +2.50%
75th Percentile £38.13 £12.75 £16.27
90th Percentile £41.25 - £16.51
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £14.63
% change year-on-year +42.09% +8.27% +2.63%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in South Wales

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in South Wales

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in South Wales over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in South Wales

AWS
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 within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 3 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 +8 21 £446 -22.43% 49
Newport +12 6 £600 +54.84% 9
Gwent - 1 £290 - 2
AWS
Wales

AWS
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.71%) WebLogic
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) JBoss
3 1 (3.57%) nginx
3 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.57%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 25 (89.29%) Azure
2 16 (57.14%) GCP
3 5 (17.86%) GitHub
4 3 (10.71%) OCI
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.14%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) BGP
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (14.29%) IPsec
1 4 (14.29%) Network Security
1 4 (14.29%) OSPF
1 4 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 4 (14.29%) Wireless
2 2 (7.14%) 802.11
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) HSRP
3 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Metadata
2 3 (10.71%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (3.57%) Big Data
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
1 2 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Architect
2 6 (21.43%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (10.71%) GCP Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) Migration Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (7.14%) Principal Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Leader
5 2 (7.14%) Tester
6 1 (3.57%) Junior
6 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Middleware
2 2 (7.14%) 802.1X
2 2 (7.14%) Node.js
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 2 (7.14%) scikit-learn
2 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) Angular 2
3 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.57%) CSS
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) Express.js
3 1 (3.57%) HTML
3 1 (3.57%) HTML5
3 1 (3.57%) JWT
3 1 (3.57%) NumPy
3 1 (3.57%) Pandas
3 1 (3.57%) RESTful
3 1 (3.57%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
1 5 (17.86%) NHS
2 4 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Cyberattack
3 2 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 7 (25.00%) Analytics
3 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.00%) DevOps
4 6 (21.43%) Agile
4 6 (21.43%) Data Analytics
4 6 (21.43%) Data Science
4 6 (21.43%) DevSecOps
4 6 (21.43%) ITIL
4 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
5 5 (17.86%) Data Privacy
5 5 (17.86%) Migration
5 5 (17.86%) Strategic Roadmap
5 5 (17.86%) TOGAF
6 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Metadata Management
6 4 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.14%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Degree
2 13 (46.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (42.86%) AWS Certification
4 11 (39.29%) Azure Certification
5 9 (32.14%) Master's Degree
6 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (17.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (14.29%) CCNP
8 4 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (14.29%) CITP
9 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
9 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
10 2 (7.14%) CREST Certified
10 2 (7.14%) Cyber Scheme
11 1 (3.57%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) Docker
3 1 (3.57%) LXC
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Cacti
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
2 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.14%) Terraform
4 1 (3.57%) Argo
4 1 (3.57%) Grafana
4 1 (3.57%) Nagios
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Google
1 14 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Cisco
2 4 (14.29%) Databricks
2 4 (14.29%) SolarWinds
2 4 (14.29%) VMware
3 3 (10.71%) Cloudera
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle
4 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.57%) IBM
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.57%) Remedy