AWS Contracts in Wales

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 24 25
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS 33 20 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 11.26% 5.06% 5.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.45% 14.08% 23.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 34
10th Percentile £246 £322 £251
25th Percentile £281 £370 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £558 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.40% -3.04% +6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £662 £675
90th Percentile £600 £689 £693
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%

All Cloud Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 116 142 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 39.59% 35.95% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 118 138
10th Percentile £188 £159 £159
25th Percentile £263 £352 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £466
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +7.24% -1.84%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £600
90th Percentile £600 £623 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.94 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.26 £13.98 £12.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +42.09% +8.27% +2.63%
75th Percentile £35.25 £17.57 £16.07
90th Percentile £41.25 £18.53 £16.43
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Wales

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Wales

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Wales

AWS
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 within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales +13 28 £461 -17.40% 66
West Wales - 2 £538 - 3
Dyfed - 1 £400 -
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (9.09%) WebLogic
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
3 1 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) JBoss
3 1 (3.03%) nginx
3 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.03%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.03%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 27 (81.82%) Azure
2 17 (51.52%) GCP
3 5 (15.15%) GitHub
4 3 (9.09%) OCI
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.06%) PaaS
5 2 (6.06%) Serverless
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) BGP
1 4 (12.12%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (12.12%) IPsec
1 4 (12.12%) Network Security
1 4 (12.12%) OSPF
1 4 (12.12%) SD-WAN
1 4 (12.12%) Wireless
2 2 (6.06%) 802.11
2 2 (6.06%) DNS
2 2 (6.06%) HSRP
3 1 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Metadata
2 4 (12.12%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (3.03%) Adabas
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Subversion
3 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 12 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Architect
2 6 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Technical Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Network Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Developer
5 3 (9.09%) GCP Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Migration Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Penetration Tester
6 2 (6.06%) Principal Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Principal Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.06%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Middleware
1 3 (9.09%) Node.js
2 2 (6.06%) 802.1X
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (6.06%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.06%) scikit-learn
2 2 (6.06%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.03%) Angular 2
3 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.03%) Express.js
3 1 (3.03%) JWT
3 1 (3.03%) NestJS
3 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.03%) Pandas
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) RESTful
3 1 (3.03%) SciPy
3 1 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
1 5 (15.15%) NHS
1 5 (15.15%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) Cyberattack
2 2 (6.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Computer Science
2 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 9 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 8 (24.24%) Agile
3 8 (24.24%) Analytics
3 8 (24.24%) Data Science
3 8 (24.24%) DevOps
4 7 (21.21%) Data Analytics
4 7 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (18.18%) DevSecOps
5 6 (18.18%) ITIL
5 6 (18.18%) Migration
5 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.15%) Cloud Security
6 5 (15.15%) Data Engineering
6 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
6 5 (15.15%) Data Privacy
6 5 (15.15%) Metadata Management
6 5 (15.15%) Strategic Roadmap
6 5 (15.15%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.06%) Java
3 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.06%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
4 1 (3.03%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) Natural
4 1 (3.03%) Ruby
4 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (51.52%) Degree
2 15 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (39.39%) AWS Certification
4 12 (36.36%) Azure Certification
5 10 (30.30%) Master's Degree
6 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (15.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
8 4 (12.12%) CCNP
8 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (12.12%) CITP
8 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
9 2 (6.06%) CREST Certified
9 2 (6.06%) Cyber Scheme
10 1 (3.03%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (3.03%) LXC
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Cacti
2 3 (9.09%) Ansible
2 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Terraform
4 1 (3.03%) Argo
4 1 (3.03%) Grafana
4 1 (3.03%) Nagios
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Google
1 15 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) Databricks
3 4 (12.12%) Cisco
3 4 (12.12%) Cloudera
3 4 (12.12%) SolarWinds
3 4 (12.12%) VMware
4 3 (9.09%) Oracle
5 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
5 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.03%) IBM
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.03%) Remedy