Cloud Operations Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 293 327 410
Rank change year-on-year +34 +83 +162
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 11 18 67
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.12% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.13% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 60
10th Percentile £424 £500 £511
25th Percentile £441 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £550 £784
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% -29.82% +33.40%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £863
90th Percentile £655 £638 -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Cloud Operations
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Operations trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 (9.09%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Run
4 1 (9.09%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Stackdriver
4 1 (9.09%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Billing
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Programme Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DBA
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) ADO
2 1 (9.09%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Basis
2 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Blog
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
4 3 (27.27%) Observability
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
5 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
5 2 (18.18%) Runbook
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Progress Chef
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 2 (18.18%) Puppet
4 1 (9.09%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk