Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Public Cloud
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 42 46
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 3 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.85% 0.27% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 0.81% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £274
25th Percentile - £563 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £214 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -65.82% +13.64% -
75th Percentile - £688 £597
90th Percentile - - £639
Wales median daily rate £214 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -65.82% +13.64% +57.14%

All Generic Skills
South Wales

Public Cloud 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 130 123 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 36.62% 32.80% 36.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 79 103
10th Percentile £190 £144 £168
25th Percentile £238 £210 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +13.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £440 £577 £575
90th Percentile £529 £700 £675
Wales median daily rate £308 £335 £345
% change year-on-year -8.21% -2.90% -23.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 9
10th Percentile £13.08 £21.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £14.15 £23.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% -36.00% +110.53%
75th Percentile £26.42 £27.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £63.00 £27.50 £55.50
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.48 £40.00
% change year-on-year -19.54% -36.30% +122.22%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in South Wales

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

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 20 November 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 +3 3 £214 -65.82% 2
Public Cloud
Wales

Public Cloud
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 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Health
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Principal Project Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
1 2 (66.67%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Business Case
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (66.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle