Cloud Engineer Contracts in South Wales

Cloud Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in South Wales is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 52 50
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 3 5 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.87% 0.95% 2.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.00% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 22
10th Percentile - £325 £418
25th Percentile - £400 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £588
90th Percentile £680 £698 -
Wales median daily rate £650 £650 £550
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 308 501 877
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.28% 95.07% 97.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 388 652
10th Percentile £169 £177 £200
25th Percentile £345 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £573 £575
90th Percentile £640 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 36
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.85 £11.15
25th Percentile £15.20 £16.60 £11.97
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.98 £26.06
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.25 £47.14
Wales median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +5.21% -8.89% +20.67%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in South Wales

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in South Wales

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Cardiff +11 2 £650 - 2
Newport - 1 £675 - 1
Cloud Engineer
Wales

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 South Wales region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Community of Practice
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) DBS Check

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

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Community of Practice
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace