Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in Central London

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 130 148
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +59
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.37% 0.086% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.094% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £556 - £600
25th Percentile £623 - £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 - £800
75th Percentile £756 - £825
90th Percentile £813 - -
London median daily rate £525 £480 £715
% change year-on-year +9.38% -32.87% +15.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Cloud Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,763 2,136 2,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.63% 91.71% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,219 1,340 1,881
10th Percentile £331 £375 £359
25th Percentile £425 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £760 £780 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 26 19
10th Percentile £17.97 £19.50 £16.45
25th Percentile £21.07 £28.06 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%
75th Percentile £35.88 £74.38 £52.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £124.75 £69.75
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.17
% change year-on-year -21.93% +1.65% -0.88%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in Central London

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in Central London over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in Central London

Cloud Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 9 November 2025. 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
City of London - 7 £680 - 20
Cloud Operations
London

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (42.86%) IaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Run
4 2 (28.57%) Firebase
4 2 (28.57%) Google Gemini
4 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (28.57%) Vertex AI
5 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) PaaS
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Snyk
2 1 (14.29%) Ant
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 2 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Migration Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) CSS3
1 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) HTML5
1 2 (28.57%) JWT
1 2 (28.57%) Next.js
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) Redux
1 2 (28.57%) REST
1 2 (28.57%) Tailwind CSS
1 2 (28.57%) WebSockets
1 2 (28.57%) Zustand
2 1 (14.29%) Highcharts JS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) AI
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) OOP
4 2 (28.57%) OWASP
4 2 (28.57%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) OpenAI
3 2 (28.57%) VMware