Cloud Operations Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 408 561
Rank change year-on-year +81 +153 -113
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 17 67 61
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.29% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 60 44
10th Percentile £500 £511 £456
25th Percentile £525 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £784 £588
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% +33.40% +27.03%
75th Percentile £609 £863 £673
90th Percentile £638 - £734
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £623
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.36% +24.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.15
25th Percentile - - £58.88
Median hourly rate - - £68.00
75th Percentile - - £78.38
90th Percentile - - £83.85
UK median hourly rate - - £51.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,302 40,603
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.87% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,958 16,466 29,448
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £714
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 535 543
10th Percentile £15.05 £19.00 £13.55
25th Percentile £24.19 £30.88 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.05% +57.14% +35.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Cloud Operations
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Operations trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Operations.

Cloud Operations daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Cloud Operations daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Operations
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Operations.

Cloud Operations hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) AWS
3 10 (58.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 10 (58.82%) Azure Sentinel
3 10 (58.82%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (58.82%) Entra ID
3 10 (58.82%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (23.53%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (23.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (5.88%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
1 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) AWS Specialist
1 5 (29.41%) Azure Specialist
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Process Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Process Mapping Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Process Mapping Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (52.94%) Cost Control
2 5 (29.41%) Service Delivery
3 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Planning and Forecasting
3 4 (23.53%) Supplier Management
4 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (11.76%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Scrum
6 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
6 1 (5.88%) Server Management
6 1 (5.88%) Service Management
6 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) AWS Certification
1 9 (52.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 7 (41.18%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.88%) PMP
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (58.82%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian