Cloud Operations Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 489 520
Rank change year-on-year +66 +31 +98
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Operations 83 83 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.26% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 74 33 43
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,344 £46,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £68,750 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +12.50% -14.29%

All Process & 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 33,128 31,909 30,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.51% 88.95% 88.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19,079 14,313 22,914
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cloud Operations
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cloud Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cloud Operations

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 13 January 2026.

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 13 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
South East +47 40 £60,000 -12.73% 25
Midlands +23 14 £44,000 -12.00% 1
North of England +30 13 £56,750 -14.34% 4
West Midlands +23 12 £44,000 -12.00%
East of England +27 10 £67,500 -15.63% 7
North West +26 6 £53,500 -20.74% 2
Scotland -22 6 £80,000 +77.78% 6
Yorkshire -5 5 £75,000 +57.89% 1
East Midlands -10 2 £85,000 +41.67% 1
North East - 2 £80,000 - 1
Cloud Operations
UK

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (1.20%) Apache
1 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 53 (63.86%) Azure
2 28 (33.73%) AWS
3 23 (27.71%) SaaS
4 10 (12.05%) PaaS
5 9 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (9.64%) GitHub
6 8 (9.64%) IaaS
7 6 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.82%) Azure App Service
10 3 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.20%) GCP
12 1 (1.20%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.46%) Firewall
2 8 (9.64%) DNS
2 8 (9.64%) VPN
3 3 (3.61%) WAN
4 2 (2.41%) DHCP
4 2 (2.41%) SSL
5 1 (1.20%) Broadband
5 1 (1.20%) Internet
5 1 (1.20%) IPv4
5 1 (1.20%) IPv6
5 1 (1.20%) LAN
5 1 (1.20%) MPLS
5 1 (1.20%) Network Security
5 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.84%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.20%) Big Data
2 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.20%) Metadata
2 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) GitLab
2 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.66%) Finance
3 2 (2.41%) Advertising
3 2 (2.41%) Law
4 1 (1.20%) Games
4 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (36.14%) Support Engineer
2 25 (30.12%) Cloud Engineer
2 25 (30.12%) Senior
3 16 (19.28%) Applications Engineer
3 16 (19.28%) Applications Support
3 16 (19.28%) Applications Support Engineer
3 16 (19.28%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 16 (19.28%) Senior Applications Support
3 16 (19.28%) Senior Support Engineer
4 13 (15.66%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (15.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (14.46%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 11 (13.25%) Lead
7 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Support
7 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Operations Team Leader
8 8 (9.64%) Team Leader
9 7 (8.43%) Head of Engineering
10 5 (6.02%) CloudOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.28%) REST
1 16 (19.28%) SOAP
2 2 (2.41%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.20%) Clustering
4 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.20%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (1.20%) PKI
4 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.28%) Windows
2 14 (16.87%) Windows Server
3 6 (7.23%) VMS
4 5 (6.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (42.17%) CI/CD
1 35 (42.17%) DevOps
2 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (25.30%) Migration
4 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (22.89%) Root Cause Analysis
5 19 (22.89%) Task Automation
6 16 (19.28%) Data Analysis
6 16 (19.28%) SOA
7 15 (18.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (15.66%) Service Delivery
9 11 (13.25%) Mentoring
10 10 (12.05%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (7.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 5 (6.02%) Coaching
13 5 (6.02%) Containerisation
13 5 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (6.02%) FinOps
13 5 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (39.76%) SQL
2 32 (38.55%) PowerShell
3 16 (19.28%) C#
4 11 (13.25%) Bicep
4 11 (13.25%) Python
5 6 (7.23%) Bash
6 4 (4.82%) Java
6 4 (4.82%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.43%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.41%) Degree
6 1 (1.20%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) QA
2 4 (4.82%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.41%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (10.84%) Docker
2 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.20%) Firmware
4 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (30.12%) Terraform
2 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.84%) Ansible
4 2 (2.41%) Argo
4 2 (2.41%) Istio
5 1 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (34.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.20%) Cisco
3 1 (1.20%) Databricks
3 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.20%) Google
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle
3 1 (1.20%) Splunk
3 1 (1.20%) Veeam
3 1 (1.20%) VMware