Case studies · Office for National Statistics

Central statistical office · United Kingdom

Cloud-native delivery for a national statistics office

The United Kingdom’s national statistics authority.

Client: Office for National Statistics
Location: United Kingdom
Sector: Public sector

Illustration of a training session in a plain government building: eight staff at laptops and a trainer at a flipchart drawing boxes and arrows.

Illustration generated for Padmanex. Not a photograph of Office for National Statistics.

90%: uplift in cloud-native awareness across teams
100+: staff trained across roles
5: pilot teams adopted the new delivery workflows

The situation

Teams worked in silos, each with a different delivery method.
Manual deployments created risk and instability.
Little shared understanding of cloud-native practice.

What we delivered

Hands-on training for engineers and cross-functional teams.
Delivery practices with safe ways to test a change before it ships.
Pilot teams applying the new workflow to live projects.

What this means for an Indian department

An Indian directorate that publishes statutory returns has the same constraint as a national statistics office: the numbers are answerable, so releases have to be controlled. Training departmental staff to run their own releases is what makes a hand-over last.

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