AWS Job Trends in West Wales

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Wales > West Wales

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 5 16 12
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 4.31% 14.81% 10.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.83% 64.00% 20.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 12
10th Percentile £32,165 £44,956 £41,650
25th Percentile £39,163 £47,467 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £60,000 £62,989
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.74% +54.56%
75th Percentile £74,679 £65,000 £69,319
90th Percentile - £66,250 £69,694
Wales median annual salary £70,079 £49,104 £60,000
% change year-on-year +42.71% -18.16% +9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 24 25 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 20.69% 23.15% 49.58%
Number of salaries quoted 14 9 59
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,685 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +3.38% +17.64%
75th Percentile £48,750 £65,000 £69,308
90th Percentile £69,675 £65,500 £73,438
Wales median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

AWS job vacancy trend in West Wales

AWS
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in West Wales over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in West Wales

AWS
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Swansea -7 5 £55,200 -8.00% 5
AWS
Wales

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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 1 (20.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Trainee
3 1 (20.00%) Trainee Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) pytest
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) SEO
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Delphi
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Argo
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle