Cloud Operations Contracts in London

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 430 543
Rank change year-on-year +66 +113 -126
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 24 71 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.29% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 64 60
10th Percentile - £516 £524
25th Percentile £525 £563 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £800 £638
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +25.49% +27.50%
75th Percentile £711 £863 £713
90th Percentile £724 - £800
England median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,690 24,329 35,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.98% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,247 17,488 26,241
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.34 £63.81 £50.94
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in London

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in London

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in London

Cloud Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Operations in London

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Operations within the London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Central London +38 4 £625 +42.86% 5
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) AWS
2 12 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (37.50%) GCP
4 4 (16.67%) OCI
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.33%) Google App Engine
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.17%) CloudFront
6 1 (4.17%) IaaS
6 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
1 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.17%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Architect
1 13 (54.17%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) CloudOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) GCP Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Process Mapping Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) CMDB
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
1 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (20.83%) DevOps
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (20.83%) Migration
3 3 (12.50%) Agile
3 3 (12.50%) High Availability
4 2 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.33%) Cost Control
4 2 (8.33%) IT Strategy
4 2 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (8.33%) Principle of Least Privilege
4 2 (8.33%) Scrum
4 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (4.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Python
2 9 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (29.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle
3 5 (20.83%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow