AWS Contracts in Wales

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 25 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -17
Contract jobs citing AWS 18 37 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.92% 6.13% 5.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.85% 22.98% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 33 35
10th Percentile £303 £247 £413
25th Percentile £367 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £579
90th Percentile £690 £695 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 130 161 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 35.52% 26.66% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 132 184
10th Percentile £143 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £273 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £531 £600 £575
90th Percentile £570 £674 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 15
10th Percentile £12.94 £12.54 -
25th Percentile £13.98 £12.59 £11.15
Median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +12.50% -39.53%
75th Percentile £17.57 £16.07 £16.78
90th Percentile £18.53 £16.43 £20.20
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Wales

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Wales over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Wales

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +4 18 £515 -14.17% 32
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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) VPN
2 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) MySQL
2 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
3 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (16.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
1 3 (16.67%) Postman
2 2 (11.11%) Burp Suite
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.56%) AppScan
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) DBA
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Administrator
3 3 (16.67%) MySQL DBA
3 3 (16.67%) React Developer
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 2 (11.11%) PHP Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (22.22%) Vue
3 3 (16.67%) Laravel
4 2 (11.11%) .NET
4 2 (11.11%) React
4 2 (11.11%) React Native
5 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Educational Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) Project Management
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Change Control
4 5 (27.78%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 2 (11.11%) Application Security
7 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.11%) OWASP
7 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.11%) Security Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PHP
1 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
2 3 (16.67%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SANS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) Grafana
2 6 (33.33%) Nagios
3 5 (27.78%) Graylog
3 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
4 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.56%) HP Fortify
5 1 (5.56%) Nessus
5 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.56%) Puppet
5 1 (5.56%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) Checkmarx
4 1 (5.56%) New Relic
4 1 (5.56%) PagerDuty
4 1 (5.56%) Rackspace
4 1 (5.56%) Veracode
4 1 (5.56%) VMware