Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 63 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.34% 0.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.31% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £466 £633 -
25th Percentile £472 £636 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £644 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.27% - -
75th Percentile £497 £648 -
90th Percentile £499 £649 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £644 -
% change year-on-year -24.27% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 761 653 1,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.77% 85.92% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 408 755
10th Percentile £285 £322 £308
25th Percentile £400 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.12% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £653 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £483 £495 £514
% change year-on-year -2.42% -3.65% +2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 16
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.30 £20.56 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year -26.20% +47.40% -3.08%
75th Percentile £46.56 £38.75 £24.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.98 £30.04
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.63 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +24.38% -10.84% +12.16%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
Leeds -17 2 £500 -22.33% 1
Wakefield - 1 £475 - 1
Cloud Operations
Yorkshire

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) HL7
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft