Cloud Operations Contracts in the East Midlands

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.29% - 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £436 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £498 - £505
90th Percentile £503 - £508
England median daily rate £500 £550 £775
% change year-on-year -9.09% -29.03% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 607 679 880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 88.74% 77.87% 87.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 440 685
10th Percentile £213 £205 £213
25th Percentile £325 £319 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% -6.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £600
90th Percentile £588 £623 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 64 49
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.75 £12.94
25th Percentile £15.12 £12.75 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.77 £17.25 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +8.78% -34.86% +23.16%
75th Percentile £25.13 £26.24 £51.50
90th Percentile £28.06 £50.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the East Midlands

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in the East Midlands

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Leicestershire - 1 £450 - 3
Nottinghamshire - 1 £488 - 1
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform