AWS Jobs in Wales

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 13 22
Rank change year-on-year -41 +9 -12
Permanent jobs citing AWS 29 189 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.74% 8.94% 11.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.33% 31.93% 32.32%
Number of salaries quoted 27 121 97
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,101 £42,069
25th Percentile £46,486 £41,250 £42,819
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £51,104
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -2.16% -4.92%
75th Percentile £72,061 £65,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £75,086 £79,225 £80,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%

All Cloud Skills
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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 150 592 594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 8.99% 27.99% 34.20%
Number of salaries quoted 133 459 357
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,290 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,486 £37,101 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +8.20% -7.58%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £70,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -6.40% -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Wales

AWS
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for AWS in Wales

AWS
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Wales over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in Wales

AWS
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
South Wales -35 24 £60,000 +15.39% 63
West Wales +14 5 £50,124 -0.74% 11
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (17.24%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (13.79%) Confluence
2 4 (13.79%) IIS
3 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (10.34%) CMS
3 3 (10.34%) Headless CMS
3 3 (10.34%) Tomcat
4 2 (6.90%) Apache
5 1 (3.45%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) Azure
2 10 (34.48%) GitHub
3 8 (27.59%) Serverless
4 7 (24.14%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (17.24%) GCP
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (10.34%) Contentful
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) NAS
1 2 (6.90%) SAN
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.90%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (3.45%) Metadata
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Redis
4 1 (3.45%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.79%) JIRA
3 4 (13.79%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (13.79%) TeamCity
4 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
4 3 (10.34%) JMeter
5 2 (6.90%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.45%) JUnit
6 1 (3.45%) Mercurial
6 1 (3.45%) MLflow
General
1 9 (31.03%) Public Sector
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Performance Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Performance Test Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Node.js
2 6 (20.69%) React
3 5 (17.24%) .NET
4 4 (13.79%) CSS
4 4 (13.79%) HTML
4 4 (13.79%) REST
5 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
5 3 (10.34%) Bootstrap
5 3 (10.34%) Express.js
5 3 (10.34%) GraphQL
5 3 (10.34%) hapi
5 3 (10.34%) NestJS
5 3 (10.34%) OpenLayers
5 3 (10.34%) React Native
5 3 (10.34%) Vue
6 2 (6.90%) Django
6 2 (6.90%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (6.90%) Spring
7 1 (3.45%) Web Services
7 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.90%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Unix
3 4 (13.79%) Windows
3 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
1 17 (58.62%) DevOps
2 11 (37.93%) Agile
2 11 (37.93%) Mentoring
3 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
4 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
4 7 (24.14%) TDD
5 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (20.69%) Microservices
6 5 (17.24%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (17.24%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.79%) CRM
7 4 (13.79%) Software Delivery
8 3 (10.34%) Analytics
8 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
8 3 (10.34%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
1 11 (37.93%) SQL
2 6 (20.69%) TypeScript
3 5 (17.24%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) Groovy
5 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.90%) Bash
7 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
3 5 (17.24%) Grafana
4 4 (13.79%) Ansible
5 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.45%) Argo
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (3.45%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Google
3 4 (13.79%) Pega
3 4 (13.79%) VMware
4 3 (10.34%) Atlassian
4 3 (10.34%) Guidewire
4 3 (10.34%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.90%) Databricks
6 1 (3.45%) PagerDuty