Cloud Operations Contracts in England

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cloud Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 548 702
Rank change year-on-year +35 +154 -145
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 36 98 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.098% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.22% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 87 68
10th Percentile £478 £485 £510
25th Percentile £513 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £863 £703
90th Percentile £715 - £800
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £621
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.73% +24.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cloud Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,794 44,158 63,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,826 30,977 45,197
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,739
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 +41 23 £625 -21.88% 21
North of England +35 6 £550 - 7
North West +24 6 £550 - 4
South East +23 4 £500 +25.00% 5
Midlands +23 1 - -
South West +11 1 £550 -8.33% 2
West Midlands - 1 - -
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 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (58.33%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) AWS
3 9 (25.00%) GCP
4 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) IaaS
6 4 (11.11%) OCI
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (8.33%) Snowflake
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.56%) Google App Engine
8 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.56%) PaaS
9 1 (2.78%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
1 2 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.78%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
3 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Legal
3 2 (5.56%) Marketing
3 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Architect
1 12 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 8 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Operations Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) CloudOps Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) CMDB
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.78%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) DevOps
2 11 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (19.44%) Agile
4 7 (19.44%) Cloud Security
4 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
5 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (13.89%) IT Strategy
6 5 (13.89%) Migration
6 5 (13.89%) Technology Strategy
7 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
9 2 (5.56%) Cost Control
9 2 (5.56%) Customer Service
9 2 (5.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 2 (5.56%) Network Segmentation
9 2 (5.56%) Principle of Least Privilege
9 2 (5.56%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) Python
2 10 (27.78%) Java
3 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 5 (13.89%) Bash
4 5 (13.89%) SQL
5 4 (11.11%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) Bicep
6 1 (2.78%) C
6 1 (2.78%) C++
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.78%) CEH
4 1 (2.78%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.78%) MCSE
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.78%) PMP
4 1 (2.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (38.89%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (30.56%) Terraform
3 3 (8.33%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) Oracle
3 5 (13.89%) Google
4 3 (8.33%) Splunk
5 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow