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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 503 524
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 +178
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 28 30 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.090% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.10% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 79
10th Percentile £356 £475 £533
25th Percentile £400 £485 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £700
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -23.21% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £863
90th Percentile £680 £642 -
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -18.18% -21.43% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.43 - -
25th Percentile £47.31 - -
Median hourly rate £54.25 - -
75th Percentile £60.81 - -
90th Percentile £63.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.50 - -

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 25,134 28,617 40,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.78% 85.87% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,057 18,624 28,071
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £423 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.76% -0.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,421 1,652 1,387
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.46 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £41.80
% change year-on-year -38.66% -1.91% +57.74%

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 12 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Operations in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 12 August 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 +1 15 £450 -12.20% 38
South East +28 4 £525 +5.00% 23
North of England -19 3 - - 13
South West +32 2 - - 8
East Midlands - 2 £450 -
Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
North East - 2 - - 3
Yorkshire -6 1 - - 4
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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) GCP
4 6 (21.43%) SaaS
5 4 (14.29%) IaaS
5 4 (14.29%) PaaS
6 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (10.71%) Serverless
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.14%) Azure App Service
7 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Storage
7 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 2 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) DKIM
3 1 (3.57%) DMARC
3 1 (3.57%) PSTN
3 1 (3.57%) VoIP
3 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Big Data
2 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.14%) Data Hub
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Electronics
5 2 (7.14%) Legal
5 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.14%) Marketing
5 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.57%) Billing
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Local Government
6 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Architect
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) CloudOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) .NET
1 2 (7.14%) JDBC
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.57%) ADO
2 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.57%) FHIR
2 1 (3.57%) OAuth
2 1 (3.57%) PySpark
2 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.57%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) VMS
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) DevOps
1 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Agile
4 6 (21.43%) Observability
5 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
5 5 (17.86%) Machine Learning
6 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 4 (14.29%) Data Science
6 4 (14.29%) SDLC
6 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (10.71%) High Availability
7 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
7 3 (10.71%) Microservices
7 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (25.00%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Bash
3 2 (7.14%) Bicep
3 2 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.14%) CISSP
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) HL7
1 1 (3.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.14%) Grafana
3 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Google
3 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.14%) Netskope
4 2 (7.14%) New Relic
4 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 2 (7.14%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) PagerDuty
5 1 (3.57%) Sage
5 1 (3.57%) Splunk