Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 - 135
Rank change year-on-year - - +79
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.23% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £681 - £505
90th Percentile £805 - £508
England median daily rate £450 £530 £625
% change year-on-year -15.09% -15.20% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,308 2,224 2,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.89% 82.52% 85.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,494 1,414 1,733
10th Percentile £235 £263 £250
25th Percentile £360 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 71 100
10th Percentile £13.65 £13.52 £13.14
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.39 £21.59 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -21.49% +52.78%
75th Percentile £26.51 £43.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.60 £55.00 £67.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.39% +51.91%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the Midlands

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in the Midlands

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
East Midlands - 6 £450 - 2
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SAP ERP
1 2 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure App Service
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Manager
2 2 (33.33%) SAP Manager
2 2 (33.33%) SAP Programme Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Implementation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cost Management
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) ERP
2 2 (33.33%) Escalation Management
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Governance
2 2 (33.33%) RBAC
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow