Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
South East median daily rate £450 - £488

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,533 1,868 2,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.44% 86.04% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 1,058 1,619
10th Percentile £263 £296 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.45% +3.50%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 74 92
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.72 £16.44
25th Percentile £15.91 £28.31 £25.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.30 £54.47
Median % change year-on-year -56.86% +7.03% +175.81%
75th Percentile £49.28 £63.31 £68.44
90th Percentile £73.65 £75.35 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.02 £58.49 £54.39
% change year-on-year -64.06% +7.55% +67.13%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in the Thames Valley

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Berkshire - 1 £375 - 5
Oxfordshire - 1 £525 - 1
Cloud Operations
South East

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Jinja
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) logstash
2 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google