Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Wales

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales 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 46 43 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.68% 0.82% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.52% 2.19% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £466 - £460
25th Percentile £472 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £645
75th Percentile £497 - £667
90th Percentile £499 - £674
UK median daily rate £530 £582 £534
% change year-on-year -8.93% +9.04% -11.04%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 119 137 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 27.11% 37.33% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 110 117
10th Percentile £170 £187 £181
25th Percentile £290 £253 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £568 £550 £551
90th Percentile £713 £626 £629
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 3
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £19.50 £28.13 £12.96
Median hourly rate £21.00 £37.28 £13.33
Median % change year-on-year -43.67% +179.67% -15.22%
75th Percentile £21.50 £41.25 £84.67
90th Percentile £30.00 - £127.47
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.02
% change year-on-year +9.09% +14.49% +3.76%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Wales

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 January 2026. 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
West Wales - 2 £488 - 1
South Wales 0 1 - - 4
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Payments Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle