Public Cloud Contracts in South Wales

Public Cloud
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 54 64
Rank change year-on-year +31 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 19 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 5.71% 0.77% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.57% 1.90% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 1 2
10th Percentile - - £449
25th Percentile £494 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £513
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +26.83% -
75th Percentile £623 - £571
90th Percentile £671 - £579
Wales median daily rate £513 £556 £513
% change year-on-year -7.87% +8.54% -2.38%

All Generic Skills
South Wales

Public Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 122 210 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 36.64% 40.62% 34.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 151 218
10th Percentile £160 £172 £181
25th Percentile £406 £273 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +6.51%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £539
90th Percentile £573 £613 £638
Wales median daily rate £500 £425 £449
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.29% +1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 12
10th Percentile £18.78 £12.59 -
25th Percentile £29.31 £14.78 £11.15
Median hourly rate £48.75 £18.10 £14.18
Median % change year-on-year +169.34% +27.64% -14.06%
75th Percentile £68.31 £21.24 £17.92
90th Percentile £78.93 £32.93 £24.49
Wales median hourly rate £13.50 £17.03 £14.53
% change year-on-year -20.73% +17.23% -3.15%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in South Wales

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in South Wales

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in South Wales over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in South Wales

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 +25 19 £513 -21.15% 4
Public Cloud
Wales

Public Cloud
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 7 (36.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (21.05%) Azure AKS
5 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.26%) GCP
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
1 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
1 5 (26.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) MySQL
2 5 (26.32%) RDBMS
2 5 (26.32%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Burp Suite
1 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.26%) AppScan
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) DBA
2 5 (26.32%) Administrator
3 4 (21.05%) MySQL DBA
3 4 (21.05%) WSO2 Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Administrator
4 3 (15.79%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) MySQL Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Site Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (21.05%) Keycloak
2 4 (21.05%) OAuth
2 4 (21.05%) OAuth2
2 4 (21.05%) SAML
3 3 (15.79%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) NHS
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Change Control
3 5 (26.32%) Project Management
4 4 (21.05%) API Management
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Migration
6 2 (10.53%) Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Application Security
6 2 (10.53%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.53%) OWASP
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Security Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 1 (5.26%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.26%) Manual Testing
7 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
2 1 (5.26%) PHP
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SANS
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) HL7
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Ansible
1 7 (36.84%) Grafana
1 7 (36.84%) Nagios
1 7 (36.84%) Terraform
2 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 5 (26.32%) Graylog
3 5 (26.32%) Prometheus
4 4 (21.05%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.26%) HP Fortify
5 1 (5.26%) Nessus
5 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.26%) Puppet
5 1 (5.26%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Splunk
3 4 (21.05%) WSO2
4 2 (10.53%) Checkmarx
5 1 (5.26%) Veracode