Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cloud Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 742 701 945
Rank change year-on-year -41 +244 -205
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Operations 168 290 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.29% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 112 170 207
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,400 £41,625
25th Percentile £50,938 £60,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £97,500 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +48.85% +0.77%
75th Percentile £77,500 £115,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £138,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.27% +7.73% -12.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cloud Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Top 17 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 6 May 2024. 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 -31 132 £67,500 -30.77% 35
UK excluding London -12 131 £60,000 +1.27% 15
Work from Home -11 109 £65,000 -38.10% 18
North of England +75 55 £60,000 - 7
North West +40 34 £60,000 -14.29% 3
London +15 28 £85,000 -19.05% 22
East of England +25 17 £70,000 +33.33%
Scotland -48 16 £65,000 -27.78% 1
Yorkshire +94 13 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Midlands +1 11 £50,000 -13.04%
South East -16 10 £67,500 -10.00% 5
Northern Ireland +23 9 £50,000 -
North East -7 8 £70,000 +33.33% 3
East Midlands -20 8 £53,750 -2.27%
South West -34 7 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Wales - 6 £50,000 -
West Midlands +19 3 £50,000 -20.00%

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 46 (27.38%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.60%) Moodle
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 46 (27.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 100 (59.52%) Azure
2 92 (54.76%) AWS
3 49 (29.17%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (27.38%) Amazon SQS
5 20 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (5.95%) GCP
9 9 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.57%) SaaS
12 5 (2.98%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.98%) Route 53
13 4 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (1.79%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 3 (1.79%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.79%) Entra ID
14 3 (1.79%) PaaS
14 3 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 50 (29.76%) DNS
2 48 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 46 (27.38%) BGP
3 46 (27.38%) SSL
4 15 (8.93%) Firewall
5 5 (2.98%) DAB
5 5 (2.98%) HTTP
5 5 (2.98%) Network Security
6 4 (2.38%) MQTT
7 3 (1.79%) DHCP
7 3 (1.79%) VPN
8 2 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 46 (27.38%) Oracle Database
3 46 (27.38%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.98%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.98%) MySQL
5 4 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.38%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 7 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.98%) Git
3 3 (1.79%) GitLab
4 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
General
1 79 (47.02%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.10%) Telecoms
3 19 (11.31%) Finance
4 9 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (5.36%) Law
5 7 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.79%) Legal
8 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.19%) Publishing
9 1 (0.60%) Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Police
9 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 92 (54.76%) Lead
2 51 (30.36%) Architect
3 48 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 47 (27.98%) Lead Architect
5 46 (27.38%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 37 (22.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (21.43%) Team Leader
8 22 (13.10%) CloudOps Engineer
8 22 (13.10%) Operations Engineer
9 13 (7.74%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (7.14%) Senior
11 8 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.17%) Infrastructure Team Leader
12 7 (4.17%) Network Infrastructure Team Leader
12 7 (4.17%) Network Team Leader
12 7 (4.17%) Operations Team Leader
12 7 (4.17%) Project Leader
13 6 (3.57%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (27.98%) Spring Boot
2 46 (27.38%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (6.55%) Node.js
4 5 (2.98%) HTML
5 4 (2.38%) CSS
6 3 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.19%) Web Services
8 1 (0.60%) .NET
8 1 (0.60%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.60%) Express.js
8 1 (0.60%) OpenID
8 1 (0.60%) RESTful
8 1 (0.60%) SAML
8 1 (0.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 49 (29.17%) Public Cloud
2 46 (27.38%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.36%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.17%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.57%) IoT
6 6 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.38%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.79%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.79%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.60%) BYOD
11 1 (0.60%) Clustering
11 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 62 (36.90%) Linux
2 46 (27.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (7.14%) Windows
4 6 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.79%) Android
5 3 (1.79%) Unix
6 2 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.60%) Debian
7 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (38.10%) Agile
2 58 (34.52%) Migration
3 53 (31.55%) Project Management
4 50 (29.76%) SDLC
5 49 (29.17%) Data Migration
6 48 (28.57%) Kanban
7 47 (27.98%) Load Balancing
8 46 (27.38%) Actionable Insight
8 46 (27.38%) ArchiMate
8 46 (27.38%) Collaborative Working
8 46 (27.38%) Open Source
8 46 (27.38%) Re-Platforming
8 46 (27.38%) Scrum
8 46 (27.38%) Systems Engineering
8 46 (27.38%) TOGAF
9 34 (20.24%) DevOps
10 26 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (13.10%) Mentoring
12 20 (11.90%) Cloud Security
13 16 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.93%) PowerShell
1 15 (8.93%) Python
2 14 (8.33%) Bash
3 10 (5.95%) SQL
4 6 (3.57%) Java
4 6 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.57%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.19%) Go
6 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (33.93%) AWS Certification
2 55 (32.74%) Azure Certification
3 50 (29.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 50 (29.76%) Security Cleared
4 49 (29.17%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.55%) Degree
6 6 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (1.19%) HIPAA
1 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.19%) NCSC
1 2 (1.19%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.19%) PMO
1 2 (1.19%) QA
1 2 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (6.55%) Docker
2 6 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.38%) Firmware
4 3 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.19%) vSphere
6 1 (0.60%) KVM
Systems Management
1 27 (16.07%) Terraform
2 14 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.55%) Ansible
4 7 (4.17%) Grafana
4 7 (4.17%) Opsgenie
4 7 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.19%) Graphite
5 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.19%) Nagios
5 2 (1.19%) SCCM
5 2 (1.19%) SCOM
5 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.19%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.60%) Kibana
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 47 (27.98%) Oracle
2 46 (27.38%) Sparx
3 18 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.17%) Cisco
4 7 (4.17%) Juniper
5 5 (2.98%) Google
6 4 (2.38%) Splunk
6 4 (2.38%) VMware
7 3 (1.79%) New Relic
8 2 (1.19%) F5
8 2 (1.19%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.60%) Apple
9 1 (0.60%) Avaya
9 1 (0.60%) Cadence
9 1 (0.60%) Citrix
9 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow