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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -31 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing AWS 35 190 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.91% 8.68% 12.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.46% 29.97% 35.92%
Number of salaries quoted 31 113 94
10th Percentile £37,733 £37,101 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,819
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,124 £51,996 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -0.01% -5.45%
75th Percentile £68,249 £66,250 £69,084
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,000 £82,750
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 123 634 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 10.24% 28.98% 34.28%
Number of salaries quoted 108 486 343
10th Percentile £37,170 £28,290 £26,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £37,200 £36,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £72,250 £64,688 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £71,099 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 30 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 30 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 -33 22 £60,000 +9.09% 487
West Wales +15 9 £43,929 -16.33%
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 (11.43%) CMS
1 4 (11.43%) Confluence
2 3 (8.57%) Headless CMS
3 2 (5.71%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.86%) Apache
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.86%) IIS
4 1 (2.86%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) Serverless
3 7 (20.00%) GitHub
4 6 (17.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (14.29%) GCP
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
7 3 (8.57%) Contentful
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.86%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (2.86%) dbt
9 1 (2.86%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Network Security
2 2 (5.71%) NAS
2 2 (5.71%) SAN
3 1 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.43%) RDBMS
2 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.71%) Big Data
4 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.86%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (2.86%) MySQL
5 1 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Git
2 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.43%) JIRA
3 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket
3 3 (8.57%) JMeter
4 2 (5.71%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.86%) Grunt
5 1 (2.86%) JUnit
5 1 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.86%) webpack
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Public Sector
3 7 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Finance
6 1 (2.86%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Lead
6 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 3 (8.57%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Performance Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Performance Test Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Test Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) Node.js
2 7 (20.00%) React
3 6 (17.14%) .NET
4 5 (14.29%) HTML
4 5 (14.29%) REST
4 5 (14.29%) Symfony
5 4 (11.43%) CSS
5 4 (11.43%) Vue
6 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
6 3 (8.57%) Bootstrap
6 3 (8.57%) Express.js
6 3 (8.57%) GraphQL
6 3 (8.57%) hapi
6 3 (8.57%) NestJS
6 3 (8.57%) OpenLayers
6 3 (8.57%) React Native
6 3 (8.57%) Spring
6 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.71%) Django
8 1 (2.86%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.71%) Clustering
3 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Linux
2 8 (22.86%) Unix
3 5 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) DevOps
2 18 (51.43%) Agile
3 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 12 (34.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (34.29%) Mentoring
5 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
5 8 (22.86%) TDD
6 7 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
7 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (17.14%) Microservices
7 6 (17.14%) Open Source
7 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (14.29%) Coaching
8 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
8 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 5 (14.29%) Web Development
9 4 (11.43%) Design Patterns
9 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) SQL
3 11 (31.43%) JavaScript
4 10 (28.57%) Java
5 8 (22.86%) TypeScript
6 4 (11.43%) C#
6 4 (11.43%) PHP
6 4 (11.43%) Ruby
7 3 (8.57%) Go
7 3 (8.57%) Groovy
8 2 (5.71%) Bash
8 2 (5.71%) C++
8 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
8 2 (5.71%) Rust
9 1 (2.86%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) QA
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Terraform
2 5 (14.29%) Grafana
3 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.71%) Ansible
4 2 (5.71%) Argo
4 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Google
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.71%) PagerDuty
3 2 (5.71%) Pega
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce