Public Cloud Contracts in Wales

Public Cloud
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies advertised in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 56 65
Rank change year-on-year +28 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 19 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.74% 0.79% 1.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.07% 1.91% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 2
10th Percentile - £453 £449
25th Percentile £494 £486 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £556 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% +8.54% -2.38%
75th Percentile £623 £611 £571
90th Percentile £671 £634 £579
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
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 Wales with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 135 262 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 33.67% 41.32% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 185 244
10th Percentile £163 £161 £156
25th Percentile £380 £220 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £449
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.29% +1.41%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £538
90th Percentile £574 £620 £638
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 14
10th Percentile - £12.61 -
25th Percentile £11.75 £15.25 £11.15
Median hourly rate £13.50 £17.03 £14.53
Median % change year-on-year -20.73% +17.23% -4.74%
75th Percentile £19.00 £19.81 £19.25
90th Percentile £45.80 £27.64 £26.40
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Wales

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in Wales

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Wales

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud within the Wales region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
South Wales +31 19 £513 -21.15% 1
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
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 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