Cloud Operations Contracts in the North of England

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 202 237
Rank change year-on-year +28 +35 -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 7 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.036% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.040% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £520 £533 £501
25th Percentile £538 £544 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.75% -
75th Percentile £609 £594 £526
90th Percentile £646 £598 £533
England median daily rate £550 £700 £620
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.90% +24.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,015 4,967 6,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.69% 90.15% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,426 3,410 4,610
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 207 254
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.74 £13.66
Median hourly rate £20.74 £27.20 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% +42.82% +7.18%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.04
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cloud Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in the North of England

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Operations in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in the North of England

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Operations in the North of England

Cloud Operations
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +24 5 £550 -4.35% 6
Yorkshire - 2 £644 -
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
3 2 (28.57%) IaaS
3 2 (28.57%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure App Service
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
1 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
5 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (28.57%) Agile
6 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 1 (14.29%) Analytics
7 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (14.29%) Information Security
7 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
7 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Go
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Confluent
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Skytap