Cloud Operations Contracts in the City of London

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Cloud Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 164 185
Rank change year-on-year +44 +21 -37
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 4 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.18% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile - £381 £541
25th Percentile £613 £413 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £438 £588
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -25.53% +6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £522 £713
90th Percentile - £556 £825
Central London median daily rate £625 £438 £600
% change year-on-year +42.86% -27.08% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Cloud Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,960 3,251 3,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.45% 91.55% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,387 2,187 2,928
10th Percentile £356 £354 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £677
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cloud Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the City of London

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in the City of London

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Google