Cloud Computing Contracts in Wales

Cloud Computing
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 40 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.71% 1.01% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.31% 2.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £285 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £91 -
Median % change year-on-year +218.68% - -
75th Percentile £453 - -
90th Percentile £461 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -

All Cloud Skills
Wales

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 116 142 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 39.59% 35.95% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 118 138
10th Percentile £188 £159 £159
25th Percentile £263 £352 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £466
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +7.24% -1.84%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £600
90th Percentile £600 £623 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.94 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.26 £13.98 £12.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +42.09% +8.27% +2.63%
75th Percentile £35.25 £17.57 £16.07
90th Percentile £41.25 £18.53 £16.43
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in Wales

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in Wales

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in Wales

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales +5 3 £290 +218.68% 6
Dyfed - 2 £460 -
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (40.00%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
1 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (60.00%) Wireless
2 2 (40.00%) 802.11
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (40.00%) HSRP
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) IPsec
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) 802.1X
1 2 (40.00%) EDI
1 2 (40.00%) IDoc
1 2 (40.00%) JDBC
1 2 (40.00%) JMS
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) SAP PI
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) XML
1 2 (40.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Network Design
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Network Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Statistics
2 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) ABAP
1 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Cacti
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
1 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (40.00%) VMware