Cloud Operations Contracts in the South East

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Cloud Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 201 220
Rank change year-on-year +44 +19 +39
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.066% 0.072% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.085% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £441 £444 £335
25th Percentile £484 £464 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £634 £525 £450
90th Percentile £674 - £465
England median daily rate £475 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the South East

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in the South East

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in the South East

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +43 1 £700 +62.79% 19
Berkshire +31 1 £700 +62.79% 11
Surrey - 1 £425 - 7
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft