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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 17 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 +10
Permanent jobs citing AWS 178 197 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 8.71% 11.95% 15.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.18% 36.62% 37.42%
Number of salaries quoted 110 91 208
10th Percentile £37,101 £36,250 £33,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,694 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,113 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,858 £85,000 £78,305
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

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 610 538 799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 29.84% 32.63% 41.55%
Number of salaries quoted 471 326 578
10th Percentile £28,290 £27,500 £31,408
25th Percentile £37,101 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +2 147 £52,500 -12.50% 27
North Wales -9 20 £45,000 - 5
West Wales 0 10 £52,500 +13.61% 10
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 27 (15.17%) ArcGIS
1 27 (15.17%) GeoServer
2 4 (2.25%) Confluence
2 4 (2.25%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.69%) IIS
3 3 (1.69%) nginx
4 2 (1.12%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 117 (65.73%) Azure
2 34 (19.10%) GCP
3 21 (11.80%) SaaS
4 11 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.49%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (3.93%) Slack
7 6 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.81%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.81%) Serverless
9 4 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (2.25%) GitHub
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.69%) Stripe
11 2 (1.12%) BrowserStack
11 2 (1.12%) npm
11 2 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.18%) SAN
2 10 (5.62%) DNS
3 6 (3.37%) BGP
4 5 (2.81%) Firewall
4 5 (2.81%) Network Security
4 5 (2.81%) VPN
5 4 (2.25%) SSL
5 4 (2.25%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.69%) SMS
7 2 (1.12%) EIGRP
7 2 (1.12%) IP Telephony
7 2 (1.12%) IPsec
7 2 (1.12%) LAN
7 2 (1.12%) MPLS
7 2 (1.12%) VoIP
7 2 (1.12%) WAN
7 2 (1.12%) Wireless
8 1 (0.56%) DHCP
8 1 (0.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (26.97%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (15.17%) GIS
2 27 (15.17%) QGIS
3 12 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (6.18%) Oracle Database
5 10 (5.62%) MySQL
5 10 (5.62%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.06%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.93%) Oracle Database 11g
8 6 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (3.37%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.81%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.25%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.25%) Power BI
10 4 (2.25%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.69%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.69%) Tableau
12 2 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 18 (10.11%) Git
2 16 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.43%) Selenium
4 5 (2.81%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.81%) GitLab
5 4 (2.25%) JIRA
6 3 (1.69%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.12%) Grunt
7 2 (1.12%) JMeter
7 2 (1.12%) JUnit
7 2 (1.12%) TestNG
7 2 (1.12%) webpack
8 1 (0.56%) Appium
8 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.56%) Postman
8 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.56%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.56%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.35%) Finance
3 11 (6.18%) Games
3 11 (6.18%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (2.81%) Law
5 3 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.12%) Advertising
6 2 (1.12%) Welsh Language
7 1 (0.56%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.56%) Legal
7 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.56%) Retail
7 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (32.58%) Senior
2 48 (26.97%) Developer
3 37 (20.79%) Software Engineer
4 27 (15.17%) Architect
5 22 (12.36%) Senior Software Engineer
6 18 (10.11%) Senior Developer
7 17 (9.55%) Lead
8 16 (8.99%) Java Developer
9 14 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.93%) Database Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Linux Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) PostgreSQL Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Senior Storage Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Storage Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (32.58%) React
2 31 (17.42%) .NET
3 28 (15.73%) .NET Core
3 28 (15.73%) CSS
4 27 (15.17%) Leaflet
4 27 (15.17%) OpenLayers
4 27 (15.17%) PostGIS
5 18 (10.11%) AngularJS
6 17 (9.55%) Spring Boot
7 16 (8.99%) Node.js
8 15 (8.43%) REST
8 15 (8.43%) Spring
9 14 (7.87%) Vue
10 10 (5.62%) Laravel
11 7 (3.93%) ASP.NET
11 7 (3.93%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.81%) .NET Framework
12 5 (2.81%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (2.81%) Entity Framework
12 5 (2.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.87%) Public Cloud
2 8 (4.49%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.93%) CMDB
3 7 (3.93%) PKI
3 7 (3.93%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.25%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.25%) EPoS
4 4 (2.25%) iPad
4 4 (2.25%) NHS
4 4 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.12%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.04%) Linux
2 15 (8.43%) Windows
3 9 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.25%) Android
4 4 (2.25%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.25%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (42.13%) Agile
2 54 (30.34%) DevOps
3 50 (28.09%) Actionable Insight
4 40 (22.47%) Software Engineering
5 35 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (17.42%) Migration
7 28 (15.73%) Web Development
8 25 (14.04%) CI/CD
9 23 (12.92%) Scrum
10 22 (12.36%) Full Stack Development
11 21 (11.80%) Containerisation
11 21 (11.80%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (11.80%) Microservices
12 20 (11.24%) Fintech
13 18 (10.11%) Roadmaps
13 18 (10.11%) Test Automation
14 16 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 15 (8.43%) TDD
15 15 (8.43%) TOGAF
16 14 (7.87%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (29.78%) JavaScript
2 41 (23.03%) Python
3 36 (20.22%) Java
4 31 (17.42%) SQL
5 30 (16.85%) TypeScript
6 23 (12.92%) C#
7 11 (6.18%) PHP
8 7 (3.93%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.81%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.12%) Bash
10 2 (1.12%) Ruby
10 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.56%) Bicep
11 1 (0.56%) Go
11 1 (0.56%) Groovy
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (28.09%) Security Cleared
2 43 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.93%) AWS Certification
3 7 (3.93%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.81%) Degree
6 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.69%) CCNA
7 3 (1.69%) CCNP
7 3 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) CISMP
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.81%) GDPR
2 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.12%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (15.73%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (10.11%) Terraform
2 12 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.93%) Ansible
4 3 (1.69%) Galera Cluster
5 2 (1.12%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.12%) CSIRT
5 2 (1.12%) Grafana
5 2 (1.12%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (15.17%) ESRI
2 26 (14.61%) Microsoft
3 23 (12.92%) Oracle
4 17 (9.55%) Google
5 5 (2.81%) AppDynamics
5 5 (2.81%) Cisco
5 5 (2.81%) Sparx
6 4 (2.25%) Apple
6 4 (2.25%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.25%) Veeam
7 3 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.12%) VMware
9 1 (0.56%) Talend