Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 6.90% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £499 - -
West Wales median daily rate £488 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Swansea

Amazon EC2 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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8 18 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 27.59% 62.07% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 7
10th Percentile £400 £475 £264
25th Percentile £416 £500 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £338
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +51.85% -28.95%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £416
90th Percentile £569 - £443
West Wales median daily rate £488 £500 £338
% change year-on-year -2.50% +48.15% -28.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £18.28 - -
25th Percentile £18.31 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £18.75 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £19.31 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £19.43 - -
West Wales median hourly rate £18.75 £22.50 -
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Swansea

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Payments Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform