Cloud Operations Contracts in England

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 500 566
Rank change year-on-year +34 +66 +134
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 19 42 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 79
10th Percentile £400 £480 £455
25th Percentile £409 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £517 £638 £863
90th Percentile £606 £714 -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cloud Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in England

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in England

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in England

Cloud Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Operations in England

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +28 14 £450 -28.00% 56
South East +44 2 £563 +12.50% 53
Midlands +23 2 £494 - 32
East Midlands - 2 £494 - 13
North of England +11 1 £500 -9.09% 39
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 15
Cloud Operations
UK

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) GitHub
4 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (15.79%) SaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.53%) IaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Law
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Billing
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) CloudOps Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Programme Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Incident Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (5.26%) ITIL Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) YAML
2 1 (5.26%) ADO
2 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) CMDB
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (26.32%) ITIL
4 4 (21.05%) High Availability
4 4 (21.05%) Incident Management
4 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
5 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
5 3 (15.79%) Cost Management
5 3 (15.79%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) SDLC
5 3 (15.79%) Service Management
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.79%) Storage Management
6 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Demand Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Netskope
3 1 (5.26%) Google