Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Cloud Architect
Wales > South Wales

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in South Wales is £556, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.58% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £436 - -
25th Percentile £480 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 - -
75th Percentile £630 - -
90th Percentile £672 - -
Wales median daily rate £556 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 324 300 346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 89.02% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 186 267
10th Percentile £191 £167 £156
25th Percentile £284 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £413 £423
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -2.37% -10.58%
75th Percentile £513 £558 £575
90th Percentile £604 £688 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 36 22
10th Percentile £13.08 £20.12 £17.10
25th Percentile £16.26 £21.20 £21.34
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £29.83
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% -14.19% +66.15%
75th Percentile £22.00 £40.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £32.25 £48.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.48 £29.83
% change year-on-year -19.54% -14.59% +97.50%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in South Wales

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in South Wales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in South Wales

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in South Wales over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in South Wales

Cloud Architect
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 Architect within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 27 December 2025. 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 - 1 £700 - 1
Newport - 1 £413 - 1
Cloud Architect
Wales

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 27 December 2025, Cloud Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Wales region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Rubrik
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) VMware