AWS Jobs in South Wales

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -32 +5 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 22 161 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.30% 10.22% 11.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.88% 33.40% 33.49%
Number of salaries quoted 21 91 65
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,101 £38,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,216 £82,500 £88,250
Wales median annual salary £50,124 £52,500 £51,104
% change year-on-year -4.53% +2.73% -7.08%

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 85 482 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 8.89% 30.58% 35.71%
Number of salaries quoted 76 370 232
10th Percentile £37,170 £29,031 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,899 £38,750 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,101 £50,671
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +2.82% +1.34%
75th Percentile £67,313 £66,188 £68,497
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in South Wales

AWS
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in South Wales.

Salary trend for AWS in South Wales

AWS
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in South Wales

AWS
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -5 20 £60,000 +9.09% 36
Bridgend +4 1 £50,000 -6.98% 1
Glamorgan - 1 £62,500 - 29
AWS
Wales

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 4 (18.18%) CMS
1 4 (18.18%) Confluence
2 3 (13.64%) Headless CMS
3 2 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (4.55%) Apache
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (4.55%) IIS
4 1 (4.55%) Jupyter
4 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) GitHub
2 7 (31.82%) Serverless
3 5 (22.73%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.64%) Contentful
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (4.55%) dbt
7 1 (4.55%) Pulumi
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) NAS
1 2 (9.09%) SAN
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.09%) Big Data
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.55%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) JIRA
3 3 (13.64%) Bitbucket
4 2 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (4.55%) Grunt
5 1 (4.55%) JUnit
5 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
1 6 (27.27%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) IT Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) Node.js
2 6 (27.27%) React
3 5 (22.73%) HTML
3 5 (22.73%) REST
4 4 (18.18%) CSS
4 4 (18.18%) Vue
5 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
5 3 (13.64%) Bootstrap
5 3 (13.64%) Express.js
5 3 (13.64%) GraphQL
5 3 (13.64%) hapi
5 3 (13.64%) NestJS
5 3 (13.64%) OpenLayers
5 3 (13.64%) React Native
5 3 (13.64%) Spring
6 2 (9.09%) .NET
6 2 (9.09%) Django
6 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
7 1 (4.55%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (4.55%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Mobile App
3 2 (9.09%) Clustering
3 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 12 (54.55%) Mentoring
3 11 (50.00%) DevOps
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (36.36%) TDD
5 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 6 (27.27%) Microservices
6 5 (22.73%) Coaching
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (18.18%) Pair Programming
7 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
8 3 (13.64%) API Development
8 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Mobile Application Development
8 3 (13.64%) Scrum
8 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) TypeScript
3 6 (27.27%) Java
3 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 5 (22.73%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) Grafana
3 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Google
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Atlassian
3 2 (9.09%) Pega
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Guidewire
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce