Cloud Operations Contracts in London

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 339 367 428
Rank change year-on-year +28 +61 +105
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 14 24 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 59
10th Percentile - - £495
25th Percentile £400 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £825
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -24.24% +26.92%
75th Percentile £475 £711 £863
90th Percentile £530 £724 -
England median daily rate £475 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in London

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in London

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in London

Cloud Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Operations in London

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +3 3 - - 5
West London - 2 £475 - 4
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) SaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (14.29%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) CloudOps Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Manager
4 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.14%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Operations Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) CMDB
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
3 5 (35.71%) ITIL
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) High Availability
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
5 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (21.43%) SDLC
5 3 (21.43%) Service Management
5 3 (21.43%) Storage Management
6 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Netskope
3 1 (7.14%) Google