Cloud Operations Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Cloud Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 433 489
Rank change year-on-year +66 +56 -78
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 18 23 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.098% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.11% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 9
10th Percentile £475 £459 £501
25th Percentile £506 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 - £610
90th Percentile £590 - £673
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £623
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.36% +26.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cloud Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cloud Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the UK excluding London

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in the UK excluding London

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in the UK excluding London

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Scotland +47 6 £573 - 1
North of England +29 6 £550 -4.35% 7
North West +24 6 £550 -4.35% 3
South East +12 4 £500 +25.00% 5
Midlands +28 1 - -
South West +11 1 £550 -8.33% 2
West Midlands - 1 - -
Cloud Operations
UK

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) AWS
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 6 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (16.67%) IaaS
5 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 3 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 1 (5.56%) Legal
1 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Specialist
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Specialist
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Specialist
5 2 (11.11%) CloudOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Mac OS X
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (27.78%) Cost Control
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 3 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
5 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Supplier Management
5 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Bash
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Go
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
1 5 (27.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CEH
2 1 (5.56%) CREST Certified
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.56%) MCSE
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.56%) PMP
2 1 (5.56%) SANS
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) HP Fortify
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) Oracle
3 3 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian