Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.42% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 558 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.90% 86.38% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 349 579
10th Percentile £302 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £575 £573 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 6
10th Percentile - £15.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £18.14 £18.74
Median hourly rate £19.63 £32.50 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -39.62% +54.71% -2.29%
75th Percentile £26.13 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.63 £97.18 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -26.20% +57.89% -11.63%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in Leeds

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft