Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 114 - 145
Rank change year-on-year - - +50
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - 0.12%
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £680 - £800

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 1,603 1,918 2,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.85% 91.55% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,177 1,756
10th Percentile £328 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -35.15%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in the City of London

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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