Cloud Operations Contracts

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 613 740
Rank change year-on-year +68 +127 -129
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 49 103 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 89 89
10th Percentile £490 £493 £461
25th Percentile £519 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £621
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +0.73% +24.10%
75th Percentile £638 £863 £675
90th Percentile £712 - £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £46.20
25th Percentile - - £48.00
Median hourly rate - - £51.00
75th Percentile - - £71.25
90th Percentile - - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £85.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +71 41 £550 -12.00% 26
London +65 23 £625 -24.24% 19
UK excluding London +64 21 £550 -8.33% 9
Work from Home +76 17 £550 -29.82% 16
North of England +35 9 £550 -4.35% 4
North West +26 9 £550 -4.35% 3
Scotland +39 6 £573 -
South East +22 4 £500 +25.00% 3
Midlands +25 1 - -
South West +7 1 £550 -8.33% 1
West Midlands - 1 - -

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (69.39%) Azure
2 28 (57.14%) AWS
3 10 (20.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 10 (20.41%) Azure Sentinel
3 10 (20.41%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (20.41%) Entra ID
3 10 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (18.37%) GCP
5 6 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.16%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (8.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (8.16%) IaaS
7 4 (8.16%) OCI
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (6.12%) GitHub
8 3 (6.12%) Snowflake
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) Firewall
1 5 (10.20%) VPN
2 3 (6.12%) DMZ
3 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.04%) Network Security
3 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.12%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) JIRA
2 6 (12.24%) Git
3 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.12%) GitLab
4 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.08%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Finance
4 2 (4.08%) Legal
4 2 (4.08%) Marketing
5 1 (2.04%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Architect
1 13 (26.53%) Cloud Architect
2 11 (22.45%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Operations Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) AWS Specialist
5 5 (10.20%) Azure Specialist
5 5 (10.20%) Senior
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Specialist
6 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Oracle Architect
7 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Architect
7 3 (6.12%) CloudOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.04%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.12%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.37%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) Linux
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.04%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) DevOps
2 14 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 12 (24.49%) Agile
4 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (20.41%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (18.37%) Capacity Planning
6 9 (18.37%) Cost Control
7 8 (16.33%) Cloud Security
8 7 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 6 (12.24%) Cyber Resilience
9 6 (12.24%) High Availability
9 6 (12.24%) Information Governance
9 6 (12.24%) Information Security
9 6 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (10.20%) IT Strategy
10 5 (10.20%) Migration
10 5 (10.20%) Scrum
10 5 (10.20%) Service Delivery
10 5 (10.20%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) Java
3 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.24%) Go
5 5 (10.20%) Bash
5 5 (10.20%) SQL
6 3 (6.12%) C
6 3 (6.12%) C++
6 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (20.41%) AWS Certification
2 9 (18.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
2 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
3 8 (16.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.04%) CEH
4 1 (2.04%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.04%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.04%) MCSE
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.04%) PMP
4 1 (2.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (28.57%) Docker
2 10 (20.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) Kubernetes
2 12 (24.49%) Terraform
3 3 (6.12%) Ansible
3 3 (6.12%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (46.94%) Microsoft
2 14 (28.57%) Oracle
3 5 (10.20%) Google
4 3 (6.12%) Splunk
5 1 (2.04%) Atlassian