Cloud Native Contract Job Trends 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 12 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.28% 1.64% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 5.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £482 -
25th Percentile £456 £495 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £535 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% - -
75th Percentile £469 £570 -
90th Percentile - £581 -
Wales median daily rate £463 £535 -
% change year-on-year -13.55% - -

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 123 116 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 34.26% 31.69% 34.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 76 98
10th Percentile £190 £162 £164
25th Percentile £265 £216 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £425 £363
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% +17.16% -19.39%
75th Percentile £438 £588 £575
90th Percentile £530 £700 £675
Wales median daily rate £309 £375 £340
% change year-on-year -17.67% +10.29% -24.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 8
10th Percentile £13.94 £22.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.25 £24.50 £23.13
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% -45.24% +175.00%
75th Percentile £58.13 £26.50 £55.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £27.50 £55.63
Wales median hourly rate £20.75 £25.36 £46.75
% change year-on-year -18.18% -45.75% +192.19%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in South Wales

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Cloud Native

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 12 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 £463 - 4
Cloud Native
Wales

Cloud Native
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google