Cloud Operations Job Trends in London

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 405 434
Rank change year-on-year +82 +29 +185
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Operations 46 35 19
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.33% 0.22% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.24% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 16 21 14
10th Percentile £75,000 - £52,500
25th Percentile £78,438 £66,250 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £90,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +41.18% -32.89%
75th Percentile £140,625 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £108,625
England median annual salary £63,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.93% +12.50% -8.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,171 14,780 16,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.27% 94.38% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,772 8,182 13,320
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,227 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Operations relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in London

Cloud Operations
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cloud Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Operations in London

Cloud Operations
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Operations within the London region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Central London +52 12 £85,000 -5.56% 7
West London +3 2 £80,000 - 3
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (21.74%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (71.74%) Azure
2 19 (41.30%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (36.96%) AWS
4 11 (23.91%) Entra ID
5 8 (17.39%) GCP
5 8 (17.39%) OneDrive
5 8 (17.39%) SaaS
6 7 (15.22%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (8.70%) Azure Storage
8 3 (6.52%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (6.52%) PaaS
8 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.52%) Serverless
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.35%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (36.96%) WAN
2 13 (28.26%) DNS
2 13 (28.26%) VPN
3 9 (19.57%) SD-WAN
4 8 (17.39%) DHCP
4 8 (17.39%) LAN
4 8 (17.39%) TCP/IP
4 8 (17.39%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (17.39%) Wireless
5 7 (15.22%) Network Security
6 5 (10.87%) Firewall
7 1 (2.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.52%) Power BI
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.35%) Metadata
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Git
1 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.17%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 25 (54.35%) Finance
2 23 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Law
4 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.35%) Marketing
7 1 (2.17%) Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (63.04%) Senior
2 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure Support
3 10 (21.74%) Analyst
3 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 10 (21.74%) Senior Analyst
3 10 (21.74%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
3 10 (21.74%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 10 (21.74%) Senior Support Analyst
3 10 (21.74%) Support Analyst
4 8 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) CloudOps Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Network Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) Node.js
2 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.17%) .NET
3 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.17%) Next.js
3 1 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.70%) iPad
3 4 (8.70%) iPhone
3 4 (8.70%) Low-Code
3 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.70%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (8.70%) Web3
4 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) CMDB
5 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Social Media
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.26%) Windows
2 9 (19.57%) Windows Server
3 8 (17.39%) Apple iOS
3 8 (17.39%) Windows 10
4 5 (10.87%) Linux
5 3 (6.52%) VMS
6 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (52.17%) DevOps
2 18 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (32.61%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (30.43%) Analytics
4 14 (30.43%) Service Delivery
5 13 (28.26%) AI
6 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
6 11 (23.91%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (21.74%) Change Management
7 10 (21.74%) Roadmaps
7 10 (21.74%) Zero Trust
8 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (17.39%) Cost Management
9 8 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (17.39%) Problem Management
10 7 (15.22%) High Availability
10 7 (15.22%) Incident Management
10 7 (15.22%) ITIL
10 7 (15.22%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) Python
2 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.52%) Bash
4 1 (2.17%) Bicep
4 1 (2.17%) C#
4 1 (2.17%) Go
4 1 (2.17%) Java
4 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) CCNP
1 8 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (13.04%) Degree
3 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.70%) CCIE
4 4 (8.70%) CISSP
5 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.35%) MBA
6 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) SnowPro
7 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) SLA
2 4 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.70%) NIST
3 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.35%) GDPR
3 2 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
3 5 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (8.70%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (43.48%) Terraform
2 16 (34.78%) Ansible
3 12 (26.09%) Kubernetes
4 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (8.70%) CASB
6 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.17%) Argo
7 1 (2.17%) Grafana
7 1 (2.17%) Kustomize
7 1 (2.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (45.65%) Microsoft
2 14 (30.43%) VMware
3 9 (19.57%) Cisco
4 5 (10.87%) Meraki
5 4 (8.70%) Fortinet
5 4 (8.70%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.35%) Google
6 2 (4.35%) Tenable
7 1 (2.17%) BMC
7 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.17%) Citrix
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle
7 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.17%) Splunk