Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in the South West

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.18% - 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £494 £550
% change year-on-year +6.33% -10.23% -21.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,718 1,595 2,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.38% 90.83% 82.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,454 965 1,693
10th Percentile £325 £217 £238
25th Percentile £413 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 170 366
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £13.85
25th Percentile £29.25 £18.87 £28.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £32.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.57% -40.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.55 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.37% -23.87% +4.17%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in the South West

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 8 June 2026. 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
Bristol - 5 - - 2
Gloucestershire - 1 £525 - 2
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (83.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) SaaS
2 5 (83.33%) Google Drive
2 5 (83.33%) Google Workspace
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (50.00%) Asana
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DKIM
1 3 (50.00%) DMARC
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Freedom of Information
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Change Management
1 5 (83.33%) Document Management
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
1 5 (83.33%) Project Delivery
1 5 (83.33%) Records Management
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Stability
3 1 (16.67%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft