Public Cloud Contracts in Cardiff

Public Cloud
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud 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 27 16 42
Rank change year-on-year -11 +26 +13
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 3 19 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.88% 8.96% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.08% 21.35% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 1
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £450 £494 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% -21.15% +33.33%
75th Percentile £541 £623 -
90th Percentile £568 £671 -
South Wales median daily rate £586 £513 £650
% change year-on-year +14.34% -21.15% +26.83%

All Generic Skills
Cardiff

Public Cloud 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%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Cardiff

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in Cardiff

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Cardiff

Public Cloud
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 (66.67%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (66.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) OCI
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) GitOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CSSLP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Nagios
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft