Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 159 181
Rank change year-on-year -32 +22 +63
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 7 8 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £448 £519 £528
25th Percentile £449 £544 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £602 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.17% +4.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £491 £634 £641
90th Percentile £496 £647 £656
England median daily rate £525 £525 £625
% change year-on-year - -16.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.79 -
England median hourly rate £54.25 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +55.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,977 3,351 4,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.48% 84.51% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,625 1,831 2,903
10th Percentile £219 £294 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £559 £575 £600
90th Percentile £669 £656 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.50% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 173 206
10th Percentile £15.18 £14.54 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.00 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £27.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +16.49% +29.77%
75th Percentile £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.29 £68.04 £58.92
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +27.14%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
Yorkshire -26 3 £488 -24.27% 7
North West -15 2 £449 -20.27% 15
North East - 2 - - 1
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) Data Hub
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
1 1 (14.29%) Local Government
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Lead
1 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Senior
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Operations Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 1 (14.29%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) AI
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Data Science
2 2 (28.57%) DataOps
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) API Management
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
3 1 (14.29%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bicep
1 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (14.29%) HL7
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Sage