Cloud Security Contracts in Cardiff

Cloud Security
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Cloud Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security 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 23 33 43
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.38% 0.94% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.79% 1.24% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £446 - -
25th Percentile £454 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £650 £375
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +73.33% -46.43%
75th Percentile £569 - £388
90th Percentile £650 - -
South Wales median daily rate £478 £650 £375
% change year-on-year -26.54% +73.33% -44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Cloud Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Cardiff

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Cardiff

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Cardiff

Cloud Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) IaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Digital Health
4 1 (14.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Migration Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Principal Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) NHS
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (14.29%) IoT
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
3 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Data Privacy
1 5 (71.43%) DevSecOps
1 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
1 5 (71.43%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) IT Strategy
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (57.14%) TOGAF
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (28.57%) Open Source
4 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Red Team
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
1 4 (57.14%) CITP
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Master's Degree
2 2 (28.57%) CREST Certified
2 2 (28.57%) OSCE
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Google
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft