AWS Jobs in Wales

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 25 19 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 119 158 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 10.83% 9.86% 14.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.74% 28.21% 34.08%
Number of salaries quoted 84 112 185
10th Percentile £40,300 £38,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £44,666 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £69,319 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,245 £77,125 £75,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.04% +6.43% +7.69%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 445 560 672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 40.49% 34.93% 41.79%
Number of salaries quoted 303 425 528
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,406 £27,675
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £35,276
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,250 £58,181
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 -6 93 £57,500 +4.55% 47
West Wales +12 20 £62,744 +46.07% 10
North Wales +3 1 £70,000 +16.67% 1
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 2 (1.68%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 80 (67.23%) Azure
2 30 (25.21%) GCP
3 15 (12.61%) Serverless
4 9 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (7.56%) OpenShift
5 8 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (5.88%) PaaS
7 6 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (5.04%) SaaS
8 5 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.20%) dbt
9 4 (3.36%) IaaS
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.52%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.68%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (1.68%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.56%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.88%) DNS
3 5 (4.20%) DHCP
3 5 (4.20%) Firewall
4 4 (3.36%) HTTP
5 3 (2.52%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (2.52%) WAN
6 2 (1.68%) BGP
6 2 (1.68%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.68%) Network Security
6 2 (1.68%) OSPF
6 2 (1.68%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.68%) VLAN
6 2 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.84%) LAN
7 1 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.84%) VPN
7 1 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.92%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.56%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.20%) Big Data
4 5 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.36%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.36%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (2.52%) Data Vault
6 3 (2.52%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.52%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.52%) Redis
6 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.84%) MySQL
8 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (11.76%) Git
2 9 (7.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.36%) GitLab
4 2 (1.68%) Capybara
4 2 (1.68%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.68%) JIRA
4 2 (1.68%) RSpec
General
1 24 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (10.92%) Finance
4 12 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.72%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.20%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.52%) Advertising
8 2 (1.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.84%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.84%) Law
9 1 (0.84%) Legal
9 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.84%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.84%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 34 (28.57%) Senior
2 29 (24.37%) Architect
3 25 (21.01%) Developer
4 16 (13.45%) Software Engineer
4 16 (13.45%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (10.08%) Full Stack Developer
5 12 (10.08%) Senior Developer
6 9 (7.56%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
9 6 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Network Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Senior Architect
9 6 (5.04%) Senior Full Stack Developer
9 6 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.04%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.36%) C# Developer
11 4 (3.36%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.76%) React
2 13 (10.92%) .NET
2 13 (10.92%) CSS
2 13 (10.92%) HTML
3 10 (8.40%) RESTful
4 8 (6.72%) AngularJS
5 6 (5.04%) Node.js
6 5 (4.20%) Django
6 5 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.20%) Spring
6 5 (4.20%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.20%) Vue
7 4 (3.36%) .NET Framework
7 4 (3.36%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.52%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.52%) Blazor
8 3 (2.52%) CSS3
8 3 (2.52%) HTML5
8 3 (2.52%) JSON
9 2 (1.68%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.88%) Legacy Code
4 6 (5.04%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.20%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.52%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.68%) Blog
8 2 (1.68%) CMDB
8 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.68%) NHS
8 2 (1.68%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.84%) CCTV
9 1 (0.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.84%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.84%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.45%) Linux
2 10 (8.40%) Windows
3 6 (5.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.20%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.52%) CentOS
5 3 (2.52%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.52%) Unix
6 2 (1.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (54.62%) Agile
2 36 (30.25%) CI/CD
3 35 (29.41%) DevOps
4 33 (27.73%) Scrum
5 32 (26.89%) Actionable Insight
6 28 (23.53%) Software Engineering
7 20 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (15.13%) TOGAF
9 16 (13.45%) Design Patterns
10 15 (12.61%) Enterprise Architecture
10 15 (12.61%) Software Delivery
11 14 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
12 13 (10.92%) Containerisation
12 13 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (10.92%) Mentoring
13 12 (10.08%) Microservices
14 11 (9.24%) Computer Science
14 11 (9.24%) Open Source
14 11 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 35 (29.41%) Python
2 26 (21.85%) Java
3 16 (13.45%) SQL
4 15 (12.61%) C#
5 13 (10.92%) PowerShell
6 12 (10.08%) Bash
7 10 (8.40%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.04%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.36%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.52%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.52%) Ruby
11 2 (1.68%) Go
11 2 (1.68%) R
12 1 (0.84%) Bicep
12 1 (0.84%) Perl
12 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.61%) Degree
4 13 (10.92%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (7.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.20%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.52%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.52%) CCNA
8 3 (2.52%) CCNP
8 3 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.52%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.68%) OCP
9 2 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.84%) CISM
10 1 (0.84%) CISSP
10 1 (0.84%) GCIA
10 1 (0.84%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.68%) QA
2 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (14.29%) Docker
2 7 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.20%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (18.49%) Terraform
2 19 (15.97%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.88%) Ansible
4 4 (3.36%) Puppet
5 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.84%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.84%) Grafana
7 1 (0.84%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.40%) VMware
3 6 (5.04%) Oracle
3 6 (5.04%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.36%) Cisco
5 3 (2.52%) Databricks
5 3 (2.52%) Google
5 3 (2.52%) Splunk
6 2 (1.68%) IBM
6 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.68%) Snow
7 1 (0.84%) Dell
7 1 (0.84%) ESRI
7 1 (0.84%) WatchGuard