Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -42 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.15% 0.90% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 1.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 542 182 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 82.00% 82.35% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 121 87
10th Percentile £313 £200 £321
25th Percentile £400 £375 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £470
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -1.60% -11.74%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
North East median daily rate £450 £463 £470
% change year-on-year -2.70% -1.60% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 10 16
10th Percentile £17.00 £11.60 £11.81
25th Percentile £43.96 £13.47 £17.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.15 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +279.01% -13.16% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.46 £55.00
90th Percentile - £23.76 £70.00
North East median hourly rate £67.50 £17.15 £26.39
% change year-on-year +293.59% -35.00% +1.48%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -44 1 £500 - 4
Cloud Operations
North East

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Robotic Process Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform