AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 2.63% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Wales median daily rate £500 £250 -
% change year-on-year +100.00% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15 15 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 39.47% 50.00% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 4
10th Percentile £401 £425 £177
25th Percentile £413 £500 £179
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £525 £180
Median % change year-on-year -15.48% +191.67% -64.88%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £254
90th Percentile £538 £575 £387
Wales median daily rate £420 £450 £473
% change year-on-year -6.72% -4.76% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £16.82 - -
25th Percentile £17.49 - -
Median hourly rate £19.51 - -
75th Percentile £22.06 - -
90th Percentile £23.05 - -
Wales median hourly rate £25.77 £22.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year +17.14% -43.23% +94.63%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in West Wales

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

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

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

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Swansea - 1 £500 - 8
AWS Certification
Wales

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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