Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 421 536
Rank change year-on-year +68 +115 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 40 72 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.28% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.30% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 63 43
10th Percentile £362 £465 £463
25th Percentile £434 £544 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £688
90th Percentile £650 £713 £713
England median daily rate £538 £594 £575
% change year-on-year -9.47% +3.26% +6.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +35 6 £600 +19.40% 2
South London +6 2 £588 +11.90%
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Cloud Platform Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (97.50%) Platform Engineering
2 35 (87.50%) Terraform
3 22 (55.00%) AWS
4 21 (52.50%) Python
5 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 20 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (45.00%) Kubernetes
7 17 (42.50%) DevOps
7 17 (42.50%) Azure
8 14 (35.00%) Docker
9 11 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (27.50%) SC Cleared
9 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
10 10 (25.00%) Agile
10 10 (25.00%) Serverless
11 9 (22.50%) GCP
11 9 (22.50%) Linux
11 9 (22.50%) Git
11 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
12 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
12 8 (20.00%) Configuration Management
12 8 (20.00%) Ansible
12 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
12 8 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (17.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (17.50%) SQL
13 7 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (17.50%) Bash
14 6 (15.00%) Grafana
14 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) AWS
2 17 (42.50%) Azure
3 11 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (25.00%) Serverless
5 9 (22.50%) GCP
6 8 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (17.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (10.00%) IaaS
9 4 (10.00%) PaaS
10 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (7.50%) Azure AKS
10 3 (7.50%) SaaS
11 2 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (5.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) IPv4
2 3 (7.50%) Firewall
3 2 (5.00%) DNS
4 1 (2.50%) Network Security
4 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (7.50%) MySQL
1 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.00%) MariaDB
2 2 (5.00%) Redis
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.50%) Bigtable
3 1 (2.50%) CockroachDB
3 1 (2.50%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.50%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Git
2 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) GitLab
4 2 (5.00%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.50%) GoCD
General
1 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.00%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (7.50%) YAML
2 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.00%) Kafka
2 2 (5.00%) Node.js
2 2 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) AWS SAM
3 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) PropTech
4 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (97.50%) Platform Engineering
2 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (42.50%) DevOps
4 10 (25.00%) Agile
5 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
6 8 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 6 (15.00%) DevSecOps
7 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
9 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence
10 3 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (7.50%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (7.50%) Database Tuning
10 3 (7.50%) ETL
10 3 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (7.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) Python
2 7 (17.50%) Bash
2 7 (17.50%) SQL
3 5 (12.50%) Go
3 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.50%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) C
5 2 (5.00%) C++
5 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.00%) Ruby
5 2 (5.00%) Rust
5 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) SC Cleared
1 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 14 (35.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (87.50%) Terraform
2 18 (45.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (20.00%) Ansible
4 6 (15.00%) Grafana
5 5 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.50%) Consul
6 3 (7.50%) Packer
7 1 (2.50%) Argo
7 1 (2.50%) Istio
7 1 (2.50%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Splunk
2 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (5.00%) New Relic
2 2 (5.00%) VMware
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) SAP