Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.68% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £450 - £488

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 115 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 89.04% 74.19% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 79 141
10th Percentile £174 £204 £190
25th Percentile £250 £344 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £550 £525 £588
90th Percentile £679 £640 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 14
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.99 £25.08
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.50 £25.96
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.99 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -19.56% +61.55%
75th Percentile £77.50 £67.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £83.25 -
South East median hourly rate £21.02 £58.49 £54.39
% change year-on-year -64.06% +7.55% +67.13%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Oxford - 1 £525 -
Cloud Operations
South East

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform