Cloud Computing Job Trends in Wales

Cloud Computing
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 69 85
Rank change year-on-year +25 +16 +32
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 34 6 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.98% 0.84% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.68% 2.61% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 19
10th Percentile - £63,882 £35,195
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,261 £36,148
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £68,904 £41,067
Median % change year-on-year +7.11% +67.78% -0.66%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £45,034
90th Percentile - - £78,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.14% +16.67% -14.29%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Wales

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 291 230 481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 25.48% 32.12% 35.55%
Number of salaries quoted 140 151 427
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,592 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +10.72% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,500 £68,875 £66,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £78,750 £72,433
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -11.54%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in Wales

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +16 28 £73,801 +7.11% 5
Dyfed - 6 - -
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
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 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (2.94%) AWS
1 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (2.94%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (2.94%) Azure
1 1 (2.94%) dbt
1 1 (2.94%) GCP
1 1 (2.94%) PaaS
1 1 (2.94%) Pulumi
1 1 (2.94%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 33 (97.06%) Internet
2 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.94%) Redis
General
1 34 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 33 (97.06%) Banking
2 33 (97.06%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (82.35%) Lecturer
2 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (2.94%) Senior
2 1 (2.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 33 (97.06%) IoT
2 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) AI
1 33 (97.06%) Cybersecurity
1 33 (97.06%) Machine Learning
1 33 (97.06%) User Experience
1 33 (97.06%) Web Development
2 1 (2.94%) Agile
2 1 (2.94%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (2.94%) CI/CD
2 1 (2.94%) Clean Code
2 1 (2.94%) Containerisation
2 1 (2.94%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (2.94%) Incident Response
2 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (2.94%) Migration
2 1 (2.94%) Observability
2 1 (2.94%) Open Source
2 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (2.94%) Prototyping
2 1 (2.94%) Task Automation
2 1 (2.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.94%) Java
1 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (97.06%) Degree
1 33 (97.06%) Master's Degree
1 33 (97.06%) PhD
1 33 (97.06%) Postgraduate
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Google