Cloud Native Contracts in South Wales

Cloud Native
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.07% - 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.32% - 0.94%
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 - -
Wales median daily rate £475 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -13.51%

All Generic Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 94 122 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 38.84% 36.42% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 85 152
10th Percentile £160 £160 £165
25th Percentile £250 £406 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £480 £540 £549
90th Percentile £600 £573 £613
Wales median daily rate £400 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £24.70 £18.78 £12.59
25th Percentile £33.75 £29.31 £14.78
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.75 £18.10
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +169.34% +27.64%
75th Percentile £45.00 £68.31 £21.24
90th Percentile £47.50 £78.93 £32.93
Wales median hourly rate £33.38 £13.50 £17.03
% change year-on-year +147.22% -20.73% +17.23%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in South Wales

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in South Wales

Cloud Native
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 Native within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 - 5 £475 - 14
Cloud Native
Wales

Cloud Native
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 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