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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 722 695 940
Rank change year-on-year -27 +245 -209
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Operations 162 269 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.28% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 104 175 205
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £50,938 £61,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £100,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +52.67% +0.77%
75th Percentile £77,500 £120,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £138,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -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 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 17 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 17 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
UK excluding London +1 129 £62,500 +4.17% 36
England -21 126 £67,500 -32.50% 48
Work from Home -15 109 £65,000 -38.10% 17
North of England +74 56 £60,000 - 12
North West +22 34 £60,000 -11.11% 4
London +7 25 £85,000 -19.05% 22
East of England +23 17 £70,000 +33.33%
Scotland -41 16 £65,000 -27.78% 3
Yorkshire +72 13 £50,000 -16.67% 3
South East -31 10 £67,500 -12.90% 11
Northern Ireland +22 9 £50,000 - 2
North East 0 9 £70,000 +33.33% 5
South West -17 8 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Midlands -19 7 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Wales - 6 £50,000 -
East Midlands -17 4 - -
West Midlands +9 3 £50,000 -16.67% 4

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 (28.40%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.62%) Moodle
2 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 46 (28.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 97 (59.88%) Azure
2 90 (55.56%) AWS
3 49 (30.25%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (28.40%) Amazon SQS
5 17 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (4.94%) GCP
9 6 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.70%) SaaS
10 5 (3.09%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.47%) PaaS
11 4 (2.47%) Route 53
12 3 (1.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (1.85%) Datadog
12 3 (1.85%) Serverless
12 3 (1.85%) Stackdriver
12 3 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (29.63%) DNS
2 46 (28.40%) BGP
2 46 (28.40%) SSL
2 46 (28.40%) TCP/IP
3 13 (8.02%) Firewall
4 5 (3.09%) DAB
5 4 (2.47%) HTTP
5 4 (2.47%) MQTT
5 4 (2.47%) VPN
6 2 (1.23%) DHCP
6 2 (1.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (34.57%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (29.63%) Relational Database
3 46 (28.40%) Oracle Database
3 46 (28.40%) RDBMS
4 7 (4.32%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.32%) MySQL
5 4 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.47%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.85%) Git
3 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.23%) Eclipse
3 2 (1.23%) GitLab
3 2 (1.23%) JMeter
3 2 (1.23%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (46.91%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.58%) Telecoms
3 18 (11.11%) Finance
4 10 (6.17%) Law
5 8 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.32%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Legal
8 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.23%) Publishing
10 1 (0.62%) Marketing
10 1 (0.62%) Police
10 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 92 (56.79%) Lead
2 51 (31.48%) Architect
3 48 (29.63%) Solutions Architect
4 47 (29.01%) Lead Architect
5 46 (28.40%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 36 (22.22%) Team Leader
7 35 (21.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (13.58%) CloudOps Engineer
8 22 (13.58%) Operations Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Senior
10 7 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.32%) Infrastructure Team Leader
10 7 (4.32%) Network Infrastructure Team Leader
10 7 (4.32%) Network Team Leader
10 7 (4.32%) Operations Team Leader
10 7 (4.32%) Project Leader
11 6 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.70%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (28.40%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (28.40%) Spring Boot
2 11 (6.79%) Node.js
3 5 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.47%) CSS
4 4 (2.47%) HTML
5 1 (0.62%) .NET
5 1 (0.62%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.62%) Express.js
5 1 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (30.25%) Public Cloud
2 46 (28.40%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (10.49%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.32%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.70%) IoT
6 6 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.09%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.85%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.85%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.62%) BYOD
10 1 (0.62%) Clustering
10 1 (0.62%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 64 (39.51%) Linux
2 46 (28.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (9.26%) Windows
4 7 (4.32%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.85%) CentOS
5 3 (1.85%) Unix
6 1 (0.62%) Android
6 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (38.27%) Agile
2 58 (35.80%) Migration
3 52 (32.10%) Project Management
4 49 (30.25%) Data Migration
5 48 (29.63%) Collaborative Working
5 48 (29.63%) Kanban
5 48 (29.63%) SDLC
6 47 (29.01%) Load Balancing
7 46 (28.40%) Actionable Insight
7 46 (28.40%) ArchiMate
7 46 (28.40%) Open Source
7 46 (28.40%) Re-Platforming
7 46 (28.40%) Scrum
7 46 (28.40%) Systems Engineering
7 46 (28.40%) TOGAF
8 32 (19.75%) DevOps
9 24 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (13.58%) Mentoring
11 17 (10.49%) Cloud Security
12 15 (9.26%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.88%) Bash
1 16 (9.88%) PowerShell
2 14 (8.64%) Python
3 9 (5.56%) SQL
4 6 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.70%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.09%) Java
6 2 (1.23%) Go
7 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (34.57%) AWS Certification
1 56 (34.57%) Azure Certification
2 51 (31.48%) SC Cleared
2 51 (31.48%) Security Cleared
3 49 (30.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (7.41%) Degree
5 6 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.62%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.85%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.23%) PMO
2 2 (1.23%) QA
2 2 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.17%) Docker
2 7 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.47%) Firmware
4 3 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.23%) vSphere
6 1 (0.62%) KVM
Systems Management
1 22 (13.58%) Terraform
2 14 (8.64%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.41%) Ansible
4 7 (4.32%) Opsgenie
5 5 (3.09%) Grafana
5 5 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.85%) Graphite
6 3 (1.85%) Nagios
6 3 (1.85%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.23%) SCCM
7 2 (1.23%) SCOM
7 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.62%) Kibana
Vendors
1 48 (29.63%) Oracle
2 46 (28.40%) Sparx
3 21 (12.96%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.32%) Cisco
4 7 (4.32%) Juniper
5 5 (3.09%) Splunk
6 4 (2.47%) Google
6 4 (2.47%) VMware
7 3 (1.85%) New Relic
8 2 (1.23%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.23%) F5
8 2 (1.23%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.62%) Apple
9 1 (0.62%) Avaya
9 1 (0.62%) Cadence
9 1 (0.62%) Citrix
9 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow