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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 16 18
Rank change year-on-year -23 +2 -10
Permanent jobs citing AWS 39 175 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.05% 8.65% 11.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.06% 28.97% 36.36%
Number of salaries quoted 35 109 94
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,101 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,350 £41,250 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,124 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £71,436 £66,250 £68,281
90th Percentile £75,130 £81,929 £86,750
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 139 604 550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.45% 29.87% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 123 465 335
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,290 £29,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,101 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £71,936 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%

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 1 May 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 1 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
South Wales -24 23 £63,250 +20.48% 65
West Wales +14 11 £49,614 -5.50% 3
Dyfed - 1 £80,000 -
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 4 (10.26%) CMS
1 4 (10.26%) Confluence
2 3 (7.69%) Headless CMS
3 2 (5.13%) Apache
3 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.13%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) Serverless
3 6 (15.38%) GCP
4 4 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (7.69%) Contentful
5 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub
6 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.56%) IaaS
7 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Network Security
2 2 (5.13%) NAS
2 2 (5.13%) SAN
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (10.26%) RDBMS
2 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (5.13%) Big Data
4 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.13%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) Bitbucket
2 4 (10.26%) JIRA
2 4 (10.26%) JMeter
3 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.56%) Grunt
3 1 (2.56%) JUnit
3 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 12 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Finance
6 1 (2.56%) Marketing
6 1 (2.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Senior
3 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Software Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Software Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Performance Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Performance Test Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Test Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 3 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Junior
7 2 (5.13%) Junior Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) Node.js
2 11 (28.21%) React
3 9 (23.08%) HTML
4 8 (20.51%) .NET
4 8 (20.51%) CSS
4 8 (20.51%) REST
5 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
5 5 (12.82%) Symfony
6 4 (10.26%) Vue
7 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 3 (7.69%) Bootstrap
7 3 (7.69%) Express.js
7 3 (7.69%) GraphQL
7 3 (7.69%) hapi
7 3 (7.69%) NestJS
7 3 (7.69%) OpenLayers
7 3 (7.69%) React Native
7 3 (7.69%) RESTful
7 3 (7.69%) SOAP
7 3 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.13%) Clustering
4 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Housing Association
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) NHS
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
2 9 (23.08%) Unix
3 5 (12.82%) Windows
4 1 (2.56%) VMS
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) Agile
2 18 (46.15%) DevOps
3 16 (41.03%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 12 (30.77%) TDD
6 11 (28.21%) Mentoring
7 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (20.51%) Customer Service
8 8 (20.51%) Pair Programming
8 8 (20.51%) Software Engineering
9 7 (17.95%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (17.95%) Design Patterns
9 7 (17.95%) Open Source
10 6 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (15.38%) E-Commerce
10 6 (15.38%) Scrum
11 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (12.82%) OOP
11 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
11 5 (12.82%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) SQL
2 14 (35.90%) TypeScript
3 13 (33.33%) Python
4 11 (28.21%) JavaScript
5 8 (20.51%) C#
5 8 (20.51%) Java
6 5 (12.82%) Ruby
7 4 (10.26%) Groovy
7 4 (10.26%) PHP
8 3 (7.69%) Go
9 2 (5.13%) C++
9 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
9 2 (5.13%) Rust
10 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
1 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) QA
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Terraform
2 4 (10.26%) Grafana
3 1 (2.56%) Argo
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.13%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics