AWS Job Trends in Swansea

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 84 2 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 16.25% 5.56% 8.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.01% 50.00% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 66 2 5
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,608 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,921 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,486 £43,929 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.63% -26.79% +20.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £49,755 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £52,159 £66,500
West Wales median annual salary £67,486 £43,929 £60,000
% change year-on-year +53.63% -26.79% +20.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 221 4 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 42.75% 11.11% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 116 4 21
10th Percentile £33,625 £39,913 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,183 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +8.20%
75th Percentile £73,750 £50,941 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £52,633 £73,299
West Wales median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +8.20%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

AWS job vacancy trend in Swansea

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Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Swansea over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Swansea

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (51.19%) Azure
2 33 (39.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 33 (39.29%) GCP
2 33 (39.29%) Serverless
3 29 (34.52%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (27.38%) GitHub
4 23 (27.38%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (10.71%) Amazon S3
6 8 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (7.14%) CloudFront
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (1.19%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.19%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (25.00%) MySQL
3 19 (22.62%) NoSQL
4 16 (19.05%) MongoDB
5 12 (14.29%) Amazon QuickSight
5 12 (14.29%) Data Mining
5 12 (14.29%) Tableau
6 7 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.95%) DynamoDB
7 5 (5.95%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.76%) Redis
9 1 (1.19%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 28 (33.33%) Git
2 22 (26.19%) Jenkins
3 12 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 12 (14.29%) JIRA
4 7 (8.33%) GitLab
4 7 (8.33%) Selenium
5 6 (7.14%) JUnit
6 5 (5.95%) RSpec
7 4 (4.76%) minitest
7 4 (4.76%) Postman
7 4 (4.76%) REST Assured
7 4 (4.76%) Zephyr
8 3 (3.57%) Newman
8 3 (3.57%) TestRail
9 1 (1.19%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.19%) Gatling
9 1 (1.19%) JMeter
9 1 (1.19%) Mocha
9 1 (1.19%) Pa11y
General
1 59 (70.24%) Public Sector
2 26 (30.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (20.24%) Banking
5 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
6 13 (15.48%) Finance
7 12 (14.29%) Back Office
7 12 (14.29%) Marketing
8 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (44.05%) Developer
2 18 (21.43%) Lead
3 17 (20.24%) Senior
4 16 (19.05%) Java Developer
5 13 (15.48%) Architect
5 13 (15.48%) Senior Developer
6 12 (14.29%) Head of Business Intelligence
6 12 (14.29%) Software Developer
7 7 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Lead Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Ruby Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Principal Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Principal Software Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (63.10%) Spring Boot
2 46 (54.76%) Spring
3 40 (47.62%) Terraform
4 36 (42.86%) Ruby on Rails
5 32 (38.10%) RESTful
6 28 (33.33%) React
7 27 (32.14%) Kafka
7 27 (32.14%) Node.js
8 21 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
9 19 (22.62%) Hibernate
9 19 (22.62%) JPA
10 12 (14.29%) AWS CDK
10 12 (14.29%) GraphQL
10 12 (14.29%) Jest
10 12 (14.29%) Playwright
11 10 (11.90%) REST
12 9 (10.71%) CSS
12 9 (10.71%) Next.js
13 7 (8.33%) HTML
13 7 (8.33%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 49 (58.33%) Cloud Native
2 32 (38.10%) Product Ownership
3 23 (27.38%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (26.19%) Mainframe
5 17 (20.24%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (19.05%) Virtual Team
7 15 (17.86%) Onboarding
8 10 (11.90%) Digital Wallet
9 5 (5.95%) Driving Licence
10 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
11 1 (1.19%) Blog
11 1 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.33%) AIX
2 5 (5.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (82.14%) Agile
2 63 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 57 (67.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 49 (58.33%) Software Engineering
5 48 (57.14%) Microservices
6 40 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (47.62%) Mentoring
7 38 (45.24%) Scrum
8 37 (44.05%) DevOps
9 36 (42.86%) Decision-Making
9 36 (42.86%) Event-Driven
9 36 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
10 35 (41.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 35 (41.67%) Observability
11 34 (40.48%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 30 (35.71%) Containerisation
13 29 (34.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (30.95%) Roadmaps
15 23 (27.38%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 56 (66.67%) Java
2 36 (42.86%) Ruby
3 21 (25.00%) Python
4 20 (23.81%) JavaScript
5 15 (17.86%) SQL
6 13 (15.48%) TypeScript
7 8 (9.52%) C#
8 6 (7.14%) COBOL
9 4 (4.76%) Bicep
10 3 (3.57%) Go
11 1 (1.19%) Bash
11 1 (1.19%) Natural
11 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 18 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 9 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (5.95%) ISTQB
7 4 (4.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.19%) CSPO
9 1 (1.19%) Degree
9 1 (1.19%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 27 (32.14%) QA
3 22 (26.19%) WCAG
4 6 (7.14%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (7.14%) NCSC
5 1 (1.19%) GDPR
5 1 (1.19%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 18 (21.43%) Grafana
3 17 (20.24%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (20.24%) Splunk
2 13 (15.48%) OneLogin
3 11 (13.10%) Google
4 7 (8.33%) Oracle