Cloud Operations Jobs in the South East

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 388 360
Rank change year-on-year +86 -28 +112
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Operations 10 12 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.10% 0.068% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.082% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 10
10th Percentile £64,500 - £54,625
25th Percentile £67,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £100,250
90th Percentile £81,500 £87,000 £103,375
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -38.10% +57.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,872 14,647 13,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.08% 83.51% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,278 10,075 7,715
10th Percentile £29,175 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £36,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cloud Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the South East

Cloud Operations
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in the South East.

Salary trend for Cloud Operations in the South East

Cloud Operations
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Operations in the South East

Cloud Operations
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Operations within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Middlesex -11 7 - -
Thames Valley +68 2 £77,500 +14.81% 40
Berkshire +35 2 £77,500 - 22
Surrey +44 1 £65,000 -31.58% 8
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) AWS
3 7 (70.00%) GCP
3 7 (70.00%) PaaS
3 7 (70.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Git
1 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (70.00%) Law
1 7 (70.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Senior
1 7 (70.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) CloudOps Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Operations Team Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Operations Team Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Software Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Management Information System
1 7 (70.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) Cloud Security
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) High Availability
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (70.00%) Analytics
3 7 (70.00%) Computer Science
3 7 (70.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 7 (70.00%) Incident Management
3 7 (70.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) Service Management
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Ansible
2 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Okta
2 1 (10.00%) Zscaler