Cloud Operations Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cloud Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 378 440
Rank change year-on-year +50 +62 +54
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 8 21 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.10% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.12% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 19
10th Percentile £431 £475 £455
25th Percentile £455 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £616 £575 -
90th Percentile £669 £590 -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Scotland +10 3 £625 +9.17% 14
South East +44 2 £563 +12.50% 56
Midlands +23 2 £494 - 32
East Midlands - 2 £494 - 13
North of England +11 1 £500 -9.09% 40
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 15
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Run
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Billing
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Programme Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Science
4 1 (12.50%) FinOps
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk