Cloud Operations Contracts in the City of London

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Cloud Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 122 166
Rank change year-on-year +6 +44 +16
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 3 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - - £381
25th Percentile - £613 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +42.86% -25.53%
75th Percentile - £638 £522
90th Percentile - - £556
Central London median daily rate - £625 £438
% change year-on-year - +42.86% -27.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the City of London

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in the City of London

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) CloudOps Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CMDB
2 1 (33.33%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Management
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform