Cloud Engineer Contracts in Cardiff

Cloud Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Cardiff is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 39 47
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.48% 1.49% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.55% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £325 £419
25th Percentile - £400 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +26.83% -6.82%
75th Percentile - £675 £575
90th Percentile - £698 -
South Wales median daily rate £663 £650 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% +18.18% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 195 323 508
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 96.42% 96.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 257 390
10th Percentile £199 £188 £238
25th Percentile £380 £363 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £548 £550 £538
90th Percentile £617 £628 £638
South Wales median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £11.32 £13.00 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £17.25 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.75% -7.99% +15.38%
75th Percentile £18.00 £22.34 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.38 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Cardiff

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Cardiff

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Pipelines
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Pipelines
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform