Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 90 114
Rank change year-on-year -7 +24 +13
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.072% 0.21% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% 0.27% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £527 -
25th Percentile - £539 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £569 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% +26.39% -17.20%
75th Percentile - £589 £475
90th Percentile - £596 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £625
% change year-on-year - -16.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,249 1,129 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.73% 80.64% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 447 882
10th Percentile £198 £220 £225
25th Percentile £364 £314 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £565 £613
90th Percentile £682 £650 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 255 368
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £13.76
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.14 £27.67 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +39.68% -5.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +27.14%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Cambridgeshire -3 1 £600 - 2
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Sumo Logic
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CloudEndure