Lead CloudOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Lead Cloud Operations Engineer
England > South West

The median Lead Cloud Operations Engineer daily rate in the South West is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead CloudOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.029% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,129 1,532 3,003
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 90.92% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 963 1,899
10th Percentile £307 £218 £213
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £613 £616 £625
90th Percentile £703 £684 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 139 430
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.13 £13.99
25th Percentile £27.75 £22.40 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -14.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £70.50 £75.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.18
% change year-on-year +54.80% -21.81% -17.38%

Lead CloudOps Engineer
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 Lead CloudOps Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Gloucestershire - 1 £525 - 1
Lead CloudOps Engineer
England

Lead CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 28 May 2026, Lead 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 West region featuring Lead CloudOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

Lead CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft