Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in London

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 342 392
Rank change year-on-year +12 +50 +140
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 39 27 13
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.18% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.20% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 9
10th Percentile £350 £450 £529
25th Percentile £400 £459 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £478 £630
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -24.21% +1.53%
75th Percentile £638 £532 £695
90th Percentile £654 £561 £1,225
England median daily rate £525 £480 £613
% change year-on-year +9.38% -21.63% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

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 13,063 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.44% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,607 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 164 237
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in London

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in London

Cloud Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cloud Operations

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 18 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
Central London +7 9 £655 - 8
West London -18 2 - - 1
South London - 1 £538 - 2
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) Apache
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (5.13%) Tomcat
1 2 (5.13%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (74.36%) Azure
2 13 (33.33%) GitHub
2 13 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (25.64%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (20.51%) GCP
5 7 (17.95%) AWS
5 7 (17.95%) Entra ID
6 5 (12.82%) IaaS
7 4 (10.26%) SaaS
7 4 (10.26%) Serverless
8 3 (7.69%) Azure AKS
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Functions
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (5.13%) Cloud Run
9 2 (5.13%) Google Gemini
9 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (5.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) Firewall
2 5 (12.82%) DNS
3 4 (10.26%) Network Security
4 2 (5.13%) HTTP
4 2 (5.13%) SSL
5 1 (2.56%) DKIM
5 1 (2.56%) DMARC
5 1 (2.56%) LAN
5 1 (2.56%) MPLS
5 1 (2.56%) VPN
5 1 (2.56%) WAN
5 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Big Data
1 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) GitLab
1 2 (5.13%) Snyk
2 1 (2.56%) Ant
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (23.08%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Legal
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Architect
6 3 (7.69%) CloudOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Lead
6 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior
6 3 (7.69%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Team Leader
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Operations Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) OAuth
2 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.13%) CSS
2 2 (5.13%) CSS3
2 2 (5.13%) GraphQL
2 2 (5.13%) HTML
2 2 (5.13%) HTML5
2 2 (5.13%) JWT
2 2 (5.13%) Middleware
2 2 (5.13%) Next.js
2 2 (5.13%) OAuth2
2 2 (5.13%) React
2 2 (5.13%) Redux
2 2 (5.13%) REST
2 2 (5.13%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (5.13%) WebSockets
2 2 (5.13%) Zustand
3 1 (2.56%) .NET
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.56%) Highcharts JS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) NHS
3 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) CentOS
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Ubuntu
1 2 (5.13%) Unix
1 2 (5.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (58.97%) CI/CD
3 19 (48.72%) DevOps
4 12 (30.77%) Agile
5 9 (23.08%) Cloud Security
5 9 (23.08%) Migration
6 8 (20.51%) Analytics
6 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (17.95%) Observability
7 7 (17.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (15.38%) Log Analytics
8 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.82%) High Availability
9 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (12.82%) Load Balancing
9 5 (12.82%) Machine Learning
9 5 (12.82%) RBAC
9 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
3 6 (15.38%) Bicep
3 6 (15.38%) SQL
4 4 (10.26%) Bash
5 2 (5.13%) Go
5 2 (5.13%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.13%) CISSP
4 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) GDPR
1 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.56%) COBIT
3 1 (2.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.56%) ITGC
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (69.23%) Terraform
2 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.82%) Grafana
3 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Argo
4 2 (5.13%) Nagios
4 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) Databricks
3 3 (7.69%) Splunk
4 2 (5.13%) New Relic
4 2 (5.13%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle
4 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.13%) VMware
5 1 (2.56%) PagerDuty