Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Wales

Cloud Native
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in 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 47 44 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.21% 1.37% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.66% 4.26% -
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 -
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%

All Generic Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 152 141 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 31.47% 32.19% 33.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 87 112
10th Percentile £164 £155 £166
25th Percentile £214 £210 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £309 £375 £340
Median % change year-on-year -17.67% +10.29% -24.44%
75th Percentile £438 £564 £550
90th Percentile £556 £693 £675
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 8
10th Percentile £16.26 £18.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.38 £23.13
Median hourly rate £20.75 £25.36 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -45.75% +192.19%
75th Percentile £22.51 £26.05 £55.25
90th Percentile £83.75 £27.50 £55.63
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.06% -20.00% +21.43%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Wales

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

Cloud Native
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 Native within the 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
South Wales -4 1 £463 -13.55% 12
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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