CloudOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in South London

Cloud Operations Engineer
London > South London

The median Cloud Operations Engineer daily rate in South London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a CloudOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £544 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South London with a recognized job title 193 217 263
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 96.02% 97.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 137 188
10th Percentile £263 £203 £157
25th Percentile £413 £380 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £566 £615 £609
90th Percentile £638 £765 £675
London median daily rate £535 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 21
10th Percentile £43.45 - £16.63
25th Percentile £54.55 £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate £66.00 £19.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +238.46% -44.29% -20.65%
75th Percentile £76.58 £35.91 £55.00
90th Percentile - £61.41 £67.50
London median hourly rate £27.71 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.83% - -

CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, CloudOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South London region featuring CloudOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft