AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Wales

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 28 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 1 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.22% 1.64% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.71% 3.90% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £250 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 141 154 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 31.54% 42.08% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 79 104
10th Percentile £161 £184 £175
25th Percentile £251 £260 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% -4.76% -9.57%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £623
90th Percentile £684 £680 £702
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 28 16
10th Percentile £19.49 £15.20 £12.96
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.12 £21.32
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -43.23% +94.63%
75th Percentile £41.55 £31.82 £55.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £42.38 £86.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -17.89% +5.56%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Wales

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing AWS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
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 AWS Certification within the Wales region over the 6 months to 28 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 - 1 £500 - 8
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Payments Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership