Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cloud Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 712 698 944
Rank change year-on-year -14 +246 -217
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Operations 166 283 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.29% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 108 171 205
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £61,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £100,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +52.67% +0.77%
75th Percentile £77,500 £120,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £94,500 £138,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.08% +9.09% -12.70%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Operations within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -9 130 £61,250 +2.08% 16
England -27 130 £67,500 -32.50% 36
Work from Home -4 110 £65,000 -38.10% 19
North of England +71 56 £60,000 - 7
North West +26 34 £60,000 -14.29% 4
London +4 27 £85,000 -19.05% 22
East of England +26 17 £70,000 +33.33%
Scotland -39 16 £65,000 -27.78% 1
Yorkshire +81 13 £50,000 -16.67% 1
South East -19 10 £67,500 -12.90% 6
Northern Ireland +25 9 £50,000 -
North East -3 9 £70,000 +33.33% 2
South West -17 8 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Midlands -19 8 £52,500 -8.70%
Wales - 6 £50,000 -
East Midlands -16 5 £57,500 +4.55%
West Midlands +9 3 £50,000 -16.67%

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 46 (27.71%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.60%) Moodle
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 46 (27.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 99 (59.64%) Azure
2 92 (55.42%) AWS
3 49 (29.52%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (27.71%) Amazon SQS
5 18 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (7.23%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (6.02%) GCP
9 8 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (4.22%) SaaS
11 6 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.01%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.41%) PaaS
13 4 (2.41%) Route 53
14 3 (1.81%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 3 (1.81%) Datadog
14 3 (1.81%) Entra ID
14 3 (1.81%) Stackdriver
14 3 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (29.52%) DNS
2 47 (28.31%) TCP/IP
3 46 (27.71%) BGP
3 46 (27.71%) SSL
4 14 (8.43%) Firewall
5 5 (3.01%) DAB
5 5 (3.01%) HTTP
6 4 (2.41%) MQTT
6 4 (2.41%) Network Security
6 4 (2.41%) VPN
7 3 (1.81%) DHCP
8 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (33.73%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (28.92%) Relational Database
3 46 (27.71%) Oracle Database
3 46 (27.71%) RDBMS
4 6 (3.61%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.61%) MySQL
5 4 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.41%) Git
3 2 (1.20%) GitLab
4 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.60%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.60%) JMeter
4 1 (0.60%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (46.99%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.25%) Telecoms
3 19 (11.45%) Finance
4 10 (6.02%) Law
5 9 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.22%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.81%) Legal
8 3 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Publishing
10 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.60%) Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Marketing
10 1 (0.60%) Police
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 92 (55.42%) Lead
2 51 (30.72%) Architect
3 48 (28.92%) Solutions Architect
4 47 (28.31%) Lead Architect
5 46 (27.71%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 37 (22.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (21.69%) Team Leader
8 23 (13.86%) CloudOps Engineer
8 23 (13.86%) Operations Engineer
9 12 (7.23%) Senior
10 11 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.22%) Infrastructure Team Leader
11 7 (4.22%) Network Infrastructure Team Leader
11 7 (4.22%) Network Team Leader
11 7 (4.22%) Operations Team Leader
11 7 (4.22%) Project Leader
12 6 (3.61%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.61%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (28.31%) Spring Boot
2 46 (27.71%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (6.63%) Node.js
4 5 (3.01%) HTML
5 4 (2.41%) CSS
5 4 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.20%) Web Services
7 1 (0.60%) .NET
7 1 (0.60%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.60%) Express.js
7 1 (0.60%) OpenID
7 1 (0.60%) RESTful
7 1 (0.60%) SAML
7 1 (0.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (30.12%) Public Cloud
2 46 (27.71%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (10.84%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.42%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.22%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.61%) IoT
6 6 (3.61%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.01%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.81%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.81%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.60%) BYOD
10 1 (0.60%) Clustering
10 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 63 (37.95%) Linux
2 46 (27.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (8.43%) Windows
4 7 (4.22%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.81%) CentOS
5 3 (1.81%) Unix
6 2 (1.20%) Android
7 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (38.55%) Agile
2 58 (34.94%) Migration
3 53 (31.93%) Project Management
4 50 (30.12%) SDLC
5 49 (29.52%) Data Migration
6 48 (28.92%) Kanban
7 47 (28.31%) Collaborative Working
7 47 (28.31%) Load Balancing
8 46 (27.71%) Actionable Insight
8 46 (27.71%) ArchiMate
8 46 (27.71%) Open Source
8 46 (27.71%) Re-Platforming
8 46 (27.71%) Scrum
8 46 (27.71%) Systems Engineering
8 46 (27.71%) TOGAF
9 32 (19.28%) DevOps
10 25 (15.06%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (13.25%) Mentoring
12 19 (11.45%) Cloud Security
13 16 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.04%) Bash
1 15 (9.04%) PowerShell
1 15 (9.04%) Python
2 10 (6.02%) SQL
3 6 (3.61%) Java
3 6 (3.61%) JavaScript
3 6 (3.61%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.20%) Go
5 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (34.34%) AWS Certification
2 56 (33.73%) Azure Certification
3 51 (30.72%) Security Cleared
4 50 (30.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 50 (30.12%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.23%) Degree
6 6 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.81%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.20%) PMO
2 2 (1.20%) QA
2 2 (1.20%) SLA
3 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (6.02%) Docker
2 7 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.41%) Firmware
4 3 (1.81%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.20%) vSphere
6 1 (0.60%) KVM
Systems Management
1 24 (14.46%) Terraform
2 14 (8.43%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.63%) Ansible
4 7 (4.22%) Opsgenie
5 6 (3.61%) Grafana
5 6 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.81%) Graphite
6 3 (1.81%) Nagios
6 3 (1.81%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.20%) SCCM
7 2 (1.20%) SCOM
7 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.60%) Kibana
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 48 (28.92%) Oracle
2 46 (27.71%) Sparx
3 20 (12.05%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.22%) Cisco
4 7 (4.22%) Juniper
5 5 (3.01%) Google
5 5 (3.01%) Splunk
6 4 (2.41%) New Relic
6 4 (2.41%) VMware
7 2 (1.20%) F5
7 2 (1.20%) Infoblox
7 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.60%) Apple
8 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.60%) Avaya
8 1 (0.60%) Cadence
8 1 (0.60%) Citrix
8 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow