Cloud Operations Contracts in the South East

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Cloud Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 216 258
Rank change year-on-year +21 +42 -44
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.072% 0.035% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.039% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £444 £335 -
25th Percentile £464 £350 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £525 £450 £575
90th Percentile - £465 -
England median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Cloud Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,658 5,075 6,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.40% 89.18% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,720 3,524 4,648
10th Percentile £255 £248 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 223 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.37 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.76
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +127.91% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

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
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 12 May 2024. 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
West Sussex - 2 £500 -
Thames Valley - 1 £430 - 3
Berkshire - 1 £430 - 2
Sussex - 1 £500 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) CloudOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Information Management
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft