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 18 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 21 145 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 3.58% 10.24% 11.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.83% 33.33% 33.17%
Number of salaries quoted 20 87 64
10th Percentile £33,500 £37,101 £37,875
25th Percentile £40,313 £42,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,125 £69,750 £72,813
90th Percentile £75,444 £82,500 £88,375
Wales median annual salary £50,124 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.53% - -4.55%

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 92 435 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 15.70% 30.72% 35.16%
Number of salaries quoted 87 333 246
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,335 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,592 £52,186 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +8.16% -3.50%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,393
90th Percentile £72,672 £72,500 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £53,809 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% +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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -3 19 £65,375 +24.52% 43
Bridgend +8 2 £36,250 -34.09%
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 3 (14.29%) CMS
1 3 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) Apache
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.52%) Headless CMS
2 2 (9.52%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (9.52%) Contentful
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
4 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) dbt
5 1 (4.76%) Pulumi
5 1 (4.76%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) NAS
1 1 (4.76%) SAN
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (9.52%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.76%) Big Data
4 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.76%) Grunt
4 1 (4.76%) JUnit
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Senior
3 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Junior
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 2 (9.52%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Junior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) HTML
1 8 (38.10%) Node.js
1 8 (38.10%) React
2 7 (33.33%) CSS
2 7 (33.33%) REST
3 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
4 3 (14.29%) .NET
4 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 3 (14.29%) RESTful
4 3 (14.29%) SOAP
4 3 (14.29%) Vue
4 3 (14.29%) Web Services
5 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
5 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
5 2 (9.52%) hapi
5 2 (9.52%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (9.52%) NestJS
5 2 (9.52%) OpenLayers
5 2 (9.52%) React Native
5 2 (9.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.76%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Agile
1 10 (47.62%) Full-Stack Development
1 10 (47.62%) TDD
2 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) Pair Programming
5 6 (28.57%) Scrum
6 5 (23.81%) OOP
7 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
7 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
7 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (14.29%) Coaching
8 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (14.29%) CRM
8 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
8 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (14.29%) IT Strategy
8 3 (14.29%) Microservices
8 3 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) TypeScript
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 6 (28.57%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (14.29%) C#
5 3 (14.29%) Java
6 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.76%) AppDynamics