Cloud Operations Contracts

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cloud Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 578 718
Rank change year-on-year +39 +140 -58
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 45 119 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.24% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 101 94
10th Percentile £500 £510 £458
25th Percentile £525 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £610
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +6.56% +28.42%
75th Percentile £638 £863 £675
90th Percentile £710 - £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +28.57%

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Operations in the UK

Cloud Operations
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Operations within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +18 37 £550 -21.43% 41
London +15 22 £625 -24.24% 16
UK excluding London +34 21 £550 -8.33% 29
Work from Home +42 17 £550 -33.33% 12
North of England +26 10 £550 -8.33% 9
North West +22 8 £550 -8.33% 6
Scotland +54 6 £573 - 2
South East - 4 £500 - 6
Yorkshire - 2 £644 - 2
South West -4 1 £550 -8.33% 6

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 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (64.44%) Azure
2 25 (55.56%) AWS
3 11 (24.44%) Azure Sentinel
3 11 (24.44%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (22.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 10 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 9 (20.00%) GCP
6 6 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (13.33%) IaaS
7 4 (8.89%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (8.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (8.89%) PaaS
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (6.67%) OCI
8 3 (6.67%) Snowflake
9 2 (4.44%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
1 2 (4.44%) VPN
2 1 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
1 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) TeamCity
2 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 3 (6.67%) Marketing
4 2 (4.44%) Legal
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Electronics
5 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Architect
1 11 (24.44%) Cloud Architect
2 8 (17.78%) Operations Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Senior
5 5 (11.11%) AWS Specialist
5 5 (11.11%) Azure Specialist
6 4 (8.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Cloud Specialist
6 4 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (6.67%) CloudOps Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
1 3 (6.67%) React
2 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) CMDB
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.22%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) DevOps
2 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (20.00%) Agile
3 9 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 9 (20.00%) Cost Control
4 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
4 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
5 6 (13.33%) Cloud Security
5 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.33%) Service Delivery
5 6 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (11.11%) Migration
7 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (8.89%) IT Strategy
7 4 (8.89%) Planning and Forecasting
7 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (8.89%) Software Engineering
7 4 (8.89%) Supplier Management
7 4 (8.89%) Technology Strategy
8 3 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) Python
2 12 (26.67%) Java
3 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.33%) SQL
5 3 (6.67%) Bash
5 3 (6.67%) Go
6 1 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 9 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 7 (15.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.44%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.22%) CEH
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) CREST Certified
5 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.22%) PMP
5 1 (2.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) Docker
2 11 (24.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (31.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (22.22%) Terraform
3 3 (6.67%) Ansible
3 3 (6.67%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (28.89%) Oracle
3 5 (11.11%) Google
4 3 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) Cadence
5 1 (2.22%) Confluent
5 1 (2.22%) SAP
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) Skytap