Cloud Operations Contracts in the South West

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 159 170
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 1 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.031% 0.25% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.28% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -
75th Percentile - - £610
90th Percentile - £633 -
England median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,653 3,256 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.09% 89.72% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,396 2,335
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.21%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 334 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.19 £16.32 £20.08
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +26.52% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the South West

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in the South West

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft