Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £475 £680 -
% change year-on-year -30.15% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61 37 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 88.41% 86.05% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 29 31
10th Percentile £322 £374 £440
25th Percentile £472 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £656 £650 £684
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £52.93 - -
25th Percentile £55.06 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile £81.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -20.54%

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 17 July 2026. 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
Westminster - 2 £475 - 1
Cloud Operations
Central London

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Google App Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google