Cloud Operations Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Cloud Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 372 558
Rank change year-on-year +43 +186 -86
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 16 82 54
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.33% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.37% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 73 41
10th Percentile £500 £511 £463
25th Percentile £525 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £800 £588
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +36.17% +23.68%
75th Percentile £609 £863 £673
90th Percentile £638 - £725
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% +24.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Cloud Operations
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Operations trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Operations.

Cloud Operations daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Cloud Operations daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Operations
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Operations.

Cloud Operations hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) AWS
3 10 (62.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 10 (62.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 10 (62.50%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (62.50%) Entra ID
3 10 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (6.25%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) AWS Specialist
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Specialist
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Process Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Process Mapping Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Process Mapping Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (56.25%) Cost Control
2 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery
3 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (25.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 4 (25.00%) Supplier Management
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (6.25%) Information Management
6 1 (6.25%) Microservices
6 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
6 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) AWS Certification
2 9 (56.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 6 (37.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.25%) PMP
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (62.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow