Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 750 779 1064
Rank change year-on-year +29 +285 -479
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 158 169 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 120 130 150
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,475 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,563 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - -1.75% +18.75%
75th Percentile £93,750 £78,750 £93,313
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +15.75% +26.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer.

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +26 145 £70,000 - 26
Work from Home +10 76 £77,500 +11.60% 21
London +144 74 £90,000 +16.13% 11
UK excluding London -65 74 £60,000 -13.60% 17
North of England +3 42 £60,000 -14.29% 6
North West -10 23 £60,000 -17.24% 6
Midlands 0 19 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Yorkshire +39 18 £60,000 -13.60%
West Midlands -8 11 £70,000 +3.70% 3
East Midlands -11 8 £60,000 -40.00%
South West -46 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
Wales +10 4 £53,750 - 2
North East -8 3 £80,000 +14.29%
South East -11 3 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Scotland -69 1 - - 1

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Cloud Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 157 (99.37%) Platform Engineering
2 119 (75.32%) Azure
3 101 (63.92%) DevOps
4 100 (63.29%) Terraform
5 92 (58.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 75 (47.47%) Kubernetes
7 73 (46.20%) CI/CD
8 68 (43.04%) AWS
9 65 (41.14%) Python
10 61 (38.61%) Docker
11 59 (37.34%) PowerShell
12 49 (31.01%) Azure DevOps
13 48 (30.38%) Bash
13 48 (30.38%) Microsoft
14 43 (27.22%) Social Skills
15 40 (25.32%) Containerisation
16 39 (24.68%) Ansible
17 36 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
18 35 (22.15%) SQL
19 34 (21.52%) PaaS
20 33 (20.89%) Agile
21 31 (19.62%) Azure AKS
22 26 (16.46%) Finance
23 24 (15.19%) Linux
23 24 (15.19%) Configuration Management
23 24 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
23 24 (15.19%) Jenkins
23 24 (15.19%) Serverless
23 24 (15.19%) Bicep
23 24 (15.19%) Infrastructure Automation

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 8 (5.06%) Confluence
2 2 (1.27%) SAS
3 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 119 (75.32%) Azure
2 68 (43.04%) AWS
3 49 (31.01%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (21.52%) PaaS
5 31 (19.62%) Azure AKS
6 24 (15.19%) Serverless
7 23 (14.56%) GitHub
8 21 (13.29%) IaaS
9 18 (11.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 18 (11.39%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (11.39%) GCP
10 13 (8.23%) Entra ID
11 11 (6.96%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (6.33%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (6.33%) Power Platform
13 9 (5.70%) Amazon S3
13 9 (5.70%) Route 53
14 8 (5.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.23%) Firewall
1 13 (8.23%) Network Security
2 7 (4.43%) IPv4
2 7 (4.43%) VPN
3 2 (1.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (9.49%) MongoDB
4 14 (8.86%) MySQL
5 11 (6.96%) MariaDB
5 11 (6.96%) Redis
6 10 (6.33%) Power BI
7 9 (5.70%) BigQuery
8 8 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.53%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.63%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (15.19%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.92%) Git
3 10 (6.33%) Octopus Deploy
4 9 (5.70%) JIRA
5 7 (4.43%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.80%) GitLab
6 6 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (3.80%) Subversion
6 6 (3.80%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.90%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.63%) MLflow
9 1 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 43 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.46%) Finance
3 17 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (10.76%) Retail
4 6 (3.80%) Banking
4 6 (3.80%) Law
5 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.63%) Games
6 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.63%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.86%) ARM Templates
2 12 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.16%) Kafka
4 4 (2.53%) REST
4 4 (2.53%) SAML
5 2 (1.27%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.27%) Loki
6 1 (0.63%) .NET
6 1 (0.63%) ADO
6 1 (0.63%) Middleware
6 1 (0.63%) Node.js
6 1 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.59%) Data Centre
4 11 (6.96%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (5.06%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.06%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.16%) Blog
8 4 (2.53%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.53%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.63%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.63%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.63%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.19%) Linux
2 16 (10.13%) Windows
3 8 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.27%) VMS
5 1 (0.63%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (99.37%) Platform Engineering
2 101 (63.92%) DevOps
3 92 (58.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (46.20%) CI/CD
5 40 (25.32%) Containerisation
6 36 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (20.89%) Agile
8 24 (15.19%) Configuration Management
8 24 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (15.19%) Infrastructure Automation
9 23 (14.56%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (13.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (13.29%) Network Virtualisation
12 19 (12.03%) Analytics
12 19 (12.03%) Cloud Security
13 17 (10.76%) Machine Learning
14 14 (8.86%) Data Protection
15 13 (8.23%) DataOps
16 12 (7.59%) Design Patterns
16 12 (7.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 65 (41.14%) Python
2 59 (37.34%) PowerShell
3 48 (30.38%) Bash
4 35 (22.15%) SQL
5 24 (15.19%) Bicep
6 23 (14.56%) Java
7 19 (12.03%) Go
8 10 (6.33%) Groovy
9 9 (5.70%) C#
10 8 (5.06%) Ruby
11 7 (4.43%) JavaScript
11 7 (4.43%) TypeScript
12 6 (3.80%) PHP
13 5 (3.16%) Perl
14 1 (0.63%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (8.23%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.59%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.33%) Azure Certification
4 9 (5.70%) AWS Certification
5 8 (5.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (5.06%) Degree
6 7 (4.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.43%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.27%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 61 (38.61%) Docker
2 14 (8.86%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 100 (63.29%) Terraform
2 75 (47.47%) Kubernetes
3 39 (24.68%) Ansible
4 18 (11.39%) Grafana
5 17 (10.76%) Prometheus
6 13 (8.23%) Progress Chef
6 13 (8.23%) Puppet
7 9 (5.70%) Packer
8 7 (4.43%) Salt
9 6 (3.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (3.16%) Karpenter
11 3 (1.90%) Kibana
12 2 (1.27%) logstash
12 2 (1.27%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.63%) Consul
13 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 48 (30.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.23%) Google
3 8 (5.06%) New Relic
4 7 (4.43%) Atlassian
4 7 (4.43%) Databricks
5 6 (3.80%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.53%) Splunk
7 2 (1.27%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.27%) PagerDuty