CloudOps Engineer Contract Job Trends

Cloud Operations Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 - 615
Rank change year-on-year - - +202
Contract jobs requiring a CloudOps Engineer 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% - 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £551
25th Percentile - - £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £555
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.91%
75th Percentile - - £561
90th Percentile - - £564
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £555

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 32,486 33,393 42,696
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 92.81% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,605 20,273 28,801
10th Percentile £281 £300 £293
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £647
90th Percentile £723 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,896 1,201 1,522
10th Percentile £14.15 £15.25 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +43.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

CloudOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'CloudOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CloudOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

CloudOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for CloudOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for CloudOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK

CloudOps Engineer
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CloudOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 December 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
England - 4 £550 - 6
London - 2 £550 - 2
UK excluding London - 2 - - 5
North of England - 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 2
Work from Home - 1 - -

CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, CloudOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring CloudOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (25.00%) Bicep
4 1 (25.00%) Big Data
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Data Hub
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection

CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Hub
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Sage