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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 369 416
Rank change year-on-year +10 +47 +74
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 10 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.087% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.10% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 12
10th Percentile £418 £483 -
25th Percentile £425 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -0.90% +3.26%
75th Percentile £538 £605 £639
90th Percentile £635 £636 £672
UK median daily rate £488 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -11.36% -21.43% +16.67%

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 13,621 15,286 19,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.24% 83.12% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,216 9,168 13,145
10th Percentile £241 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% 0.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,310 1,587 1,201
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.70
Median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +86.05%
75th Percentile £45.60 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.70%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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
South East +21 4 £525 +5.00% 18
North of England -18 3 - - 11
East Midlands - 2 £450 -
Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
North East - 2 - - 3
Scotland -14 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -14 1 - - 4
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 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure App Service
3 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Run
4 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Billing
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Local Government
1 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) CloudOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (10.00%) ADO
1 1 (10.00%) FHIR
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
1 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) DataOps
4 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) RBAC
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Sage
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk