Cloud Security Contracts in South Wales

Cloud Security
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 42 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cloud Security 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.39% 0.30% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 0.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £446 - -
25th Percentile £450 £243 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £245 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.90% - -
75th Percentile £486 £248 -
90th Percentile £594 - -
Wales median daily rate £478 £245 £400
% change year-on-year +94.90% -38.75% -44.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 265 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.64% 80.06% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 143 275
10th Percentile £190 £143 £190
25th Percentile £265 £204 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -15.79% -7.77%
75th Percentile £484 £547 £600
90th Percentile £625 £615 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £463
% change year-on-year -5.88% -8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 41 22
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £16.98
25th Percentile £13.65 £20.12 £16.98
Median hourly rate £15.00 £25.36 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -40.85% +6.04% +20.12%
75th Percentile £20.75 £47.50 £41.56
90th Percentile - £53.75 £51.30
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £24.33 £23.92
% change year-on-year -15.74% +1.74% +32.86%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in South Wales

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in South Wales

Cloud Security
DemandTrendContract 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 Security within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff - 6 £478 - 3
Cloud Security
Wales

Cloud Security
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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Migration Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Principal Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) NHS
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Data Privacy
1 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
1 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
1 5 (83.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (66.67%) TOGAF
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 4 (66.67%) CITP
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Google