Cloud Native Contracts in Cardiff

Cloud Native
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.13% - 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.47% - 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £446 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.51%
75th Percentile £480 - -
90th Percentile £485 - -
South Wales median daily rate £475 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -13.51%

All Generic Skills
Cardiff

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 59 89 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 36.88% 41.98% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 75 99
10th Percentile £186 £344 £160
25th Percentile £290 £413 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £503 £445
Median % change year-on-year -20.40% +12.92% +2.29%
75th Percentile £480 £550 £543
90th Percentile £587 £583 £615
South Wales median daily rate £395 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -21.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.73
25th Percentile - £11.75 £19.77
Median hourly rate £18.51 £13.50 £21.53
Median % change year-on-year +37.11% -37.30% -
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.27
90th Percentile - - £24.31
South Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £48.75 £18.10
% change year-on-year -23.08% +169.34% +27.64%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Cardiff

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Cardiff

Cloud Native
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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Migration Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Principal Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 5 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 5 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) IT Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (80.00%) CITP
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft