Cloud Operations Jobs in England

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cloud Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 626 711 684
Rank change year-on-year +85 -27 +279
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Operations 57 131 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.18% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 32 90 168
10th Percentile £32,500 £50,000 £53,375
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £61,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -33.75% +50.38%
75th Percentile £91,250 £77,500 £120,313
90th Percentile £98,251 £96,375 £138,750
UK median annual salary £73,750 £65,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +13.46% -35.00% +53.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cloud Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cloud Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in England

Cloud Operations
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in England.

Salary trend for Cloud Operations in England

Cloud Operations
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Operations in England

Cloud Operations
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Operations within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +122 28 £91,250 +7.35% 55
South East +89 10 £75,000 +11.11% 34
North of England -9 7 £50,000 -16.67% 15
North West -28 5 £33,000 -45.00% 12
East of England +29 3 £72,500 +3.57% 13
South West +110 2 £94,637 +89.27% 13
West Midlands +63 2 - - 2
Midlands +55 2 - - 3
Yorkshire +49 1 £75,000 +42.86% 3
North East +40 1 £70,000 -
Cloud Operations
UK

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.26%) nginx
2 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (75.44%) Azure
2 30 (52.63%) AWS
3 23 (40.35%) GCP
4 21 (36.84%) PaaS
5 19 (33.33%) SaaS
6 9 (15.79%) GitHub
7 7 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (5.26%) Entra ID
11 3 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (5.26%) IaaS
12 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (3.51%) Azure AKS
12 2 (3.51%) Stackdriver
13 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
13 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
13 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) Network Security
2 7 (12.28%) Firewall
3 5 (8.77%) VPN
4 4 (7.02%) DNS
5 3 (5.26%) SD-WAN
5 3 (5.26%) WAN
6 2 (3.51%) Internet
6 2 (3.51%) NAS
6 2 (3.51%) SAN
6 2 (3.51%) SNMP
6 2 (3.51%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (35.09%) Git
2 19 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.75%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Gradle
3 1 (1.75%) JIRA
3 1 (1.75%) Maven
3 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.75%) Subversion
General
1 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.07%) Law
3 15 (26.32%) Telecoms
4 9 (15.79%) Finance
5 5 (8.77%) Banking
6 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.26%) Front Office
8 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Senior
2 19 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (28.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Manager
4 9 (15.79%) Lead
5 5 (8.77%) DevOps Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support Manager
7 3 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (5.26%) IT Manager
7 3 (5.26%) IT Support
7 3 (5.26%) IT Support Manager
7 3 (5.26%) SOC Manager
7 3 (5.26%) Support Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Operations Team Leader
8 2 (3.51%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.32%) Node.js
2 1 (1.75%) .NET
2 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 21 (36.84%) Management Information System
2 18 (31.58%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.51%) PKI
6 1 (1.75%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.75%) Clustering
6 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.75%) PropTech
6 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (40.35%) Windows
2 20 (35.09%) Linux
3 3 (5.26%) Android
3 3 (5.26%) Windows 10
3 3 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.51%) VMS
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (68.42%) CI/CD
1 39 (68.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 36 (63.16%) DevOps
3 23 (40.35%) Cloud Security
4 18 (31.58%) Computer Science
4 18 (31.58%) Incident Management
5 17 (29.82%) Performance Monitoring
6 16 (28.07%) Analytics
6 16 (28.07%) Continuous Delivery
6 16 (28.07%) High Availability
7 8 (14.04%) ITIL
7 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (10.53%) Containerisation
9 6 (10.53%) Cost Optimisation
9 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (10.53%) Roadmaps
9 6 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.86%) Python
2 16 (28.07%) PowerShell
3 6 (10.53%) Bash
4 3 (5.26%) Bicep
4 3 (5.26%) Go
4 3 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (35.09%) Degree
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) SLA
2 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) NIST
3 1 (1.75%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (12.28%) Docker
3 4 (7.02%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (66.67%) Terraform
2 29 (50.88%) Kubernetes
3 25 (43.86%) Ansible
4 3 (5.26%) Grafana
4 3 (5.26%) QRadar
5 2 (3.51%) HAProxy
5 2 (3.51%) Istio
5 2 (3.51%) linkerd
5 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 16 (28.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.79%) Citrix
3 8 (14.04%) VMware
4 7 (12.28%) Google
5 6 (10.53%) Splunk
6 4 (7.02%) Cisco
7 3 (5.26%) Apple
7 3 (5.26%) Avaya
7 3 (5.26%) CheckPoint
7 3 (5.26%) Meraki
7 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.51%) Dynatrace
8 2 (3.51%) F5
8 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.75%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.75%) Okta
9 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.75%) Zscaler