CloudOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Cloud Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Operations Engineer daily rate in London 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 371 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a CloudOps Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
England median daily rate £550 - £555
% change year-on-year - - -7.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,950 14,681 18,401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 93.66% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,600 9,530 13,307
10th Percentile £335 £338 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £790
England median daily rate £503 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.12% -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 159 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.80 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% +1.83% +3.26%
75th Percentile £52.88 £57.38 £59.69
90th Percentile £75.79 £81.24 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%

CloudOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

CloudOps Engineer job vacancy trend in London

CloudOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

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

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 London region featuring CloudOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code

CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks