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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -31 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 25 147 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 3.19% 10.05% 11.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.88% 32.45% 34.34%
Number of salaries quoted 24 85 65
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,101 £38,000
25th Percentile £42,899 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,125 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,151 £82,500 £88,250
Wales median annual salary £50,124 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.25% -4.76% -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 93 453 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 11.88% 30.96% 34.88%
Number of salaries quoted 83 348 227
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,787 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,101 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £51,092 £51,104
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -0.02% +2.21%
75th Percentile £68,000 £66,250 £67,638
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £54,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.00% +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 14 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 14 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 -3 22 £63,250 +20.48% 39
Bridgend +9 3 £37,500 -30.23% 2
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 (16.00%) CMS
1 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) Headless CMS
3 2 (8.00%) Apache
3 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (8.00%) Jupyter
4 1 (4.00%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (4.00%) IIS
4 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) GitHub
2 6 (24.00%) Serverless
3 5 (20.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (12.00%) Contentful
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) NAS
1 2 (8.00%) SAN
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.00%) Big Data
2 2 (8.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) JIRA
3 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.00%) Grunt
4 1 (4.00%) JUnit
4 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Senior
3 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Junior
5 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) Node.js
2 8 (32.00%) HTML
2 8 (32.00%) React
3 7 (28.00%) CSS
3 7 (28.00%) REST
4 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (16.00%) Vue
6 3 (12.00%) .NET
6 3 (12.00%) Bootstrap
6 3 (12.00%) Express.js
6 3 (12.00%) GraphQL
6 3 (12.00%) hapi
6 3 (12.00%) NestJS
6 3 (12.00%) OpenLayers
6 3 (12.00%) React Native
7 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
7 2 (8.00%) Django
7 2 (8.00%) SOAP
7 2 (8.00%) Spring
7 2 (8.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.00%) Clustering
3 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (48.00%) Mentoring
3 11 (44.00%) DevOps
4 10 (40.00%) Agile
4 10 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (40.00%) TDD
5 6 (24.00%) Microservices
5 6 (24.00%) Pair Programming
6 5 (20.00%) Scrum
7 4 (16.00%) Coaching
7 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) OOP
7 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
8 3 (12.00%) Customer Service
8 3 (12.00%) Design Patterns
8 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) TypeScript
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) SQL
4 5 (20.00%) Java
4 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Google
3 3 (12.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.00%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.00%) Guidewire
4 1 (4.00%) Pega
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) VMware