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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 626 701 674
Rank change year-on-year +75 -27 +247
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Operations 63 130 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.18% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 37 93 165
10th Percentile £32,500 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -32.50% +50.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,250 £138,750
UK median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% -35.00% +52.67%

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 45,979 73,257 86,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.14% 85.46% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,654 53,821 51,155
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
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 14 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 14 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 +114 27 £91,250 +7.35% 66
South East +102 11 £72,500 +7.41% 22
North of England +4 8 £58,750 -2.08% 9
Midlands +59 6 £48,750 -7.14% 2
West Midlands +57 6 £48,750 -2.50% 1
North West -22 6 £41,500 -30.83% 6
East of England +33 4 £76,250 +8.93% 2
South West +101 2 £94,637 +89.27% 3
Yorkshire +63 1 £75,000 +50.00% 2
North East +36 1 £70,000 - 1
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 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) nginx
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (76.19%) Azure
2 35 (55.56%) AWS
3 23 (36.51%) GCP
3 23 (36.51%) PaaS
4 21 (33.33%) SaaS
5 10 (15.87%) GitHub
6 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.35%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.35%) IBM Cloud
9 3 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.76%) IaaS
10 2 (3.17%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.17%) Stackdriver
11 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (1.59%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) Network Security
2 6 (9.52%) Firewall
3 5 (7.94%) VPN
4 3 (4.76%) DNS
4 3 (4.76%) SD-WAN
4 3 (4.76%) WAN
5 2 (3.17%) Internet
6 1 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.59%) NAS
6 1 (1.59%) SAN
6 1 (1.59%) SNMP
6 1 (1.59%) SSL
6 1 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (33.33%) Git
1 21 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.59%) GitLab
2 1 (1.59%) Gradle
2 1 (1.59%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Maven
2 1 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.59%) Subversion
General
1 17 (26.98%) Law
1 17 (26.98%) Telecoms
2 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Finance
4 4 (6.35%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.76%) Front Office
6 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (34.92%) Senior
2 20 (31.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure Manager
5 8 (12.70%) Lead
6 5 (7.94%) DevOps Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Service Manager
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) CloudOps Manager
8 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Manager
8 3 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (4.76%) IT Manager
8 3 (4.76%) IT Support
8 3 (4.76%) IT Support Manager
8 3 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) SOC Manager
8 3 (4.76%) Support Manager
9 2 (3.17%) CloudOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.98%) Node.js
2 1 (1.59%) .NET
2 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 23 (36.51%) Management Information System
2 19 (30.16%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) PKI
5 1 (1.59%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.59%) Clustering
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.59%) NHS
5 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) PropTech
5 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (41.27%) Windows
2 23 (36.51%) Linux
3 3 (4.76%) Android
3 3 (4.76%) VMS
3 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.17%) Unix
5 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (63.49%) CI/CD
1 40 (63.49%) Infrastructure as Code
2 39 (61.90%) DevOps
3 27 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 20 (31.75%) Computer Science
4 20 (31.75%) Incident Management
5 19 (30.16%) Performance Monitoring
6 18 (28.57%) Analytics
6 18 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 18 (28.57%) High Availability
7 12 (19.05%) ITIL
8 10 (15.87%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (11.11%) Change Management
11 6 (9.52%) Agile
11 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
11 6 (9.52%) Roadmaps
11 6 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.27%) Python
2 18 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.94%) Bash
4 4 (6.35%) Bicep
5 3 (4.76%) Java
6 2 (3.17%) Go
7 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.59%) SQL
7 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (34.92%) Degree
2 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) SLA
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) NIST
3 1 (1.59%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Docker
1 7 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (63.49%) Terraform
2 30 (47.62%) Kubernetes
3 27 (42.86%) Ansible
4 3 (4.76%) QRadar
5 2 (3.17%) Grafana
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.59%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.59%) Istio
6 1 (1.59%) linkerd
6 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.29%) Citrix
3 7 (11.11%) VMware
4 6 (9.52%) Google
4 6 (9.52%) ServiceNow
5 5 (7.94%) Splunk
6 4 (6.35%) IBM
6 4 (6.35%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (6.35%) SolarWinds
6 4 (6.35%) Veeam
7 3 (4.76%) Apple
7 3 (4.76%) Avaya
7 3 (4.76%) CheckPoint
7 3 (4.76%) Cisco
7 3 (4.76%) Meraki
7 3 (4.76%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.17%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.59%) F5
9 1 (1.59%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto