Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Wales

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Wales is £422, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Wales with a recognized job title 400 335 399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 91.28% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 219 300
10th Percentile £183 £160 £172
25th Percentile £289 £213 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +3.03% -9.34%
75th Percentile £515 £550 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 33 25
10th Percentile £13.33 £17.03 £13.33
25th Percentile £14.25 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.36 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.08% -24.30% +120.25%
75th Percentile £22.00 £37.28 £55.25
90th Percentile £30.75 £45.00 £87.08
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -11.14% -13.33% +8.49%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Wales

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in Wales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in Wales

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 26 January 2026, Cloud Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wales region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) VMS

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks