Cloud Operations Jobs

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 652 743 713
Rank change year-on-year +91 -30 +225
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Operations 59 167 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 34 105 172
10th Percentile £32,500 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £51,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -35.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £89,375 £77,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £97,806 £87,500 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.62% +8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Top 14 Job Locations

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 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
England +85 57 £75,000 +13.21% 121
London +122 28 £91,250 +7.35% 55
Work from Home +37 26 £62,500 -3.85% 70
UK excluding London +86 25 £71,250 +9.62% 88
South East +89 10 £75,000 +11.11% 34
North of England -9 7 £50,000 -16.67% 15
North West -28 5 £33,000 -45.00% 12
East of England +29 3 £72,500 +3.57% 13
South West +110 2 £94,637 +89.27% 13
West Midlands +63 2 - - 2
Midlands +55 2 - - 3
Scotland +109 1 £57,500 -11.54% 10
Yorkshire +49 1 £75,000 +42.86% 3
North East +40 1 £70,000 -

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.08%) nginx
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (74.58%) Azure
2 31 (52.54%) AWS
3 23 (38.98%) GCP
4 21 (35.59%) PaaS
5 20 (33.90%) SaaS
6 9 (15.25%) GitHub
7 7 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (6.78%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
11 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (5.08%) IaaS
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (3.39%) Azure AKS
12 2 (3.39%) Stackdriver
13 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
13 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.56%) Network Security
2 7 (11.86%) Firewall
3 5 (8.47%) VPN
4 4 (6.78%) DNS
5 3 (5.08%) SD-WAN
5 3 (5.08%) WAN
6 2 (3.39%) Internet
6 2 (3.39%) NAS
6 2 (3.39%) SAN
6 2 (3.39%) SNMP
6 2 (3.39%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (33.90%) Git
2 19 (32.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.69%) GitLab
3 1 (1.69%) Gradle
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) Maven
3 1 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.12%) Law
3 15 (25.42%) Telecoms
4 11 (18.64%) Finance
5 5 (8.47%) Banking
6 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.08%) Front Office
8 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Senior
2 19 (32.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (27.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Infrastructure Manager
4 9 (15.25%) Lead
5 5 (8.47%) DevOps Manager
6 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Support Manager
7 3 (5.08%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (5.08%) IT Manager
7 3 (5.08%) IT Support
7 3 (5.08%) IT Support Manager
7 3 (5.08%) SOC Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Support Manager
8 2 (3.39%) Junior
8 2 (3.39%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 2 (3.39%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.42%) Node.js
2 1 (1.69%) .NET
2 1 (1.69%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 21 (35.59%) Management Information System
2 18 (30.51%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.39%) PKI
6 1 (1.69%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.69%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.69%) Clustering
6 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.69%) NHS
6 1 (1.69%) PropTech
6 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (38.98%) Windows
2 20 (33.90%) Linux
3 3 (5.08%) Android
3 3 (5.08%) VMS
3 3 (5.08%) Windows 10
3 3 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (66.10%) CI/CD
1 39 (66.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 36 (61.02%) DevOps
3 23 (38.98%) Cloud Security
4 19 (32.20%) Incident Management
5 18 (30.51%) Computer Science
6 17 (28.81%) Performance Monitoring
7 16 (27.12%) Analytics
7 16 (27.12%) Continuous Delivery
7 16 (27.12%) High Availability
8 9 (15.25%) ITIL
9 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (11.86%) Cost Optimisation
10 7 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (10.17%) Containerisation
11 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure Management
11 6 (10.17%) Roadmaps
11 6 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (42.37%) Python
2 16 (27.12%) PowerShell
3 6 (10.17%) Bash
4 3 (5.08%) Bicep
4 3 (5.08%) Go
4 3 (5.08%) Java
5 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (33.90%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) SLA
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
3 1 (1.69%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.86%) Docker
3 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (64.41%) Terraform
2 29 (49.15%) Kubernetes
3 25 (42.37%) Ansible
4 3 (5.08%) Grafana
4 3 (5.08%) QRadar
5 2 (3.39%) HAProxy
5 2 (3.39%) Istio
5 2 (3.39%) linkerd
5 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.25%) Citrix
3 8 (13.56%) VMware
4 7 (11.86%) Google
5 6 (10.17%) Splunk
6 4 (6.78%) Cisco
7 3 (5.08%) Apple
7 3 (5.08%) Avaya
7 3 (5.08%) CheckPoint
7 3 (5.08%) Meraki
7 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.39%) Dynatrace
8 2 (3.39%) F5
8 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.69%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.69%) Okta
9 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.69%) Zscaler