Cloud Operations Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 546 632 659
Rank change year-on-year +86 +27 +93
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Operations 25 133 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 16 80 49
10th Percentile £32,500 - £51,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £79,688 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,737 £77,750 £81,500
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cloud Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the UK excluding London

Cloud Operations
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Operations in the UK excluding London

Cloud Operations
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Operations in the UK excluding London

Cloud Operations
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East +89 10 £75,000 +11.11% 115
North of England -9 7 £50,000 -16.67% 80
North West -28 5 £33,000 -45.00% 40
East of England +29 3 £72,500 +3.57% 61
South West +110 2 £94,637 +89.27% 51
West Midlands +63 2 - - 34
Midlands +55 2 - - 64
Scotland +109 1 £57,500 -11.54% 25
Yorkshire +49 1 £75,000 +42.86% 31
North East +40 1 £70,000 - 9
Cloud Operations
UK

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) AWS
2 14 (56.00%) Azure
3 10 (40.00%) GCP
4 9 (36.00%) SaaS
5 7 (28.00%) PaaS
6 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.00%) Stackdriver
9 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
1 4 (16.00%) VPN
2 2 (8.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) Internet
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (32.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Subversion
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Law
2 7 (28.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 8 (32.00%) Senior
2 7 (28.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) SOC Manager
4 2 (8.00%) CloudOps Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) CloudOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Head of Operations
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Operations Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Software Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Public Cloud
2 7 (28.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (12.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (8.00%) PKI
5 1 (4.00%) Client/Server
5 1 (4.00%) Clustering
5 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) PropTech
5 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 9 (36.00%) Linux
3 3 (12.00%) Android
3 3 (12.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.00%) Unix
4 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
1 14 (56.00%) DevOps
1 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (48.00%) Cloud Security
3 11 (44.00%) Incident Management
4 8 (32.00%) High Availability
5 7 (28.00%) Analytics
5 7 (28.00%) Computer Science
5 7 (28.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 7 (28.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (20.00%) ITIL
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) Security Operations
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (12.00%) Process Improvement
8 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
8 3 (12.00%) SIEM
8 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.00%) Bash
4 3 (12.00%) Java
5 2 (8.00%) Go
6 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) SLA
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Kubernetes
1 13 (52.00%) Terraform
2 10 (40.00%) Ansible
3 3 (12.00%) QRadar
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Google
3 3 (12.00%) Apple
3 3 (12.00%) Avaya
3 3 (12.00%) Citrix
3 3 (12.00%) Splunk
4 2 (8.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) LogRhythm
5 1 (4.00%) Okta
5 1 (4.00%) Zscaler