CloudOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 - 577
Rank change year-on-year - - +184
Contract jobs requiring a CloudOps Engineer 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.013% - 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% - 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £551
25th Percentile - - £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £555
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.50%
75th Percentile - - £561
90th Percentile - - £564
UK median daily rate £550 - £555
% change year-on-year - - +0.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 27,774 28,440 36,203
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 92.96% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,810 17,495 24,926
10th Percentile £283 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -1.78% -2.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,680 1,030 1,405
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +43.93%

CloudOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'CloudOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

CloudOps Engineer job vacancy trend in England

CloudOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for CloudOps Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for CloudOps Engineer job vacancies in England

CloudOps Engineer
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 CloudOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 December 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 - 2 £550 - 2
North East - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 - - 1
CloudOps Engineer
UK

CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, CloudOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring CloudOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (25.00%) Bicep
4 1 (25.00%) Big Data
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Data Hub
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection

CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Hub
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) FinOps
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Sage