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 in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 408 546
Rank change year-on-year +49 +138 -117
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 41 74 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.29% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.31% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 67 44
10th Percentile £365 £470 £505
25th Percentile £425 £572 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £688
90th Percentile £649 £690 £713
England median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +6.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
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 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

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 12 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 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
Central London +41 6 £600 +19.40% 1
South London +8 2 £588 +11.90%
West London -15 1 £400 -33.33%
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 40 (97.56%) Platform Engineering
2 36 (87.80%) Terraform
3 22 (53.66%) Python
3 22 (53.66%) AWS
4 21 (51.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (51.22%) CI/CD
5 19 (46.34%) Kubernetes
6 17 (41.46%) DevOps
6 17 (41.46%) Azure
7 14 (34.15%) Docker
8 11 (26.83%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
8 11 (26.83%) Security Cleared
9 10 (24.39%) Agile
9 10 (24.39%) GCP
9 10 (24.39%) Serverless
9 10 (24.39%) Containerisation
10 9 (21.95%) Linux
10 9 (21.95%) Git
11 8 (19.51%) Bash
11 8 (19.51%) Configuration Management
11 8 (19.51%) Ansible
11 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
11 8 (19.51%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
12 7 (17.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (17.07%) SQL
12 7 (17.07%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (14.63%) PowerShell
13 6 (14.63%) Grafana

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 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.88%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (4.88%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (53.66%) AWS
2 17 (41.46%) Azure
3 11 (26.83%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (24.39%) GCP
4 10 (24.39%) Serverless
5 8 (19.51%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (17.07%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (17.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (12.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (12.20%) Amazon S3
7 5 (12.20%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (9.76%) IaaS
8 4 (9.76%) PaaS
9 3 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (7.32%) Azure AKS
9 3 (7.32%) SaaS
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
10 2 (4.88%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) IPv4
2 3 (7.32%) Firewall
3 2 (4.88%) DNS
4 1 (2.44%) Network Security
4 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
1 3 (7.32%) MySQL
1 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.88%) MariaDB
2 2 (4.88%) Redis
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.44%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.44%) Bigtable
3 1 (2.44%) CockroachDB
3 1 (2.44%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.44%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Git
2 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.32%) GitLab
4 2 (4.88%) JIRA
4 2 (4.88%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.44%) GoCD
General
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Finance
2 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.88%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) Kafka
1 3 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (7.32%) YAML
2 2 (4.88%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.88%) Node.js
2 2 (4.88%) REST
3 1 (2.44%) AWS SAM
3 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.44%) JSON
3 1 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) PropTech
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.95%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (97.56%) Platform Engineering
2 21 (51.22%) CI/CD
2 21 (51.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (41.46%) DevOps
4 10 (24.39%) Agile
4 10 (24.39%) Containerisation
5 8 (19.51%) Configuration Management
6 6 (14.63%) DevSecOps
6 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (9.76%) Computer Science
8 4 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (7.32%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (7.32%) Database Tuning
9 3 (7.32%) ETL
9 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (7.32%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (7.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (53.66%) Python
2 8 (19.51%) Bash
3 7 (17.07%) SQL
4 6 (14.63%) Go
4 6 (14.63%) PowerShell
5 4 (9.76%) Java
6 3 (7.32%) C++
6 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.88%) C
7 2 (4.88%) Ruby
7 2 (4.88%) Rust
7 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.44%) Groovy
8 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
1 11 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (9.76%) Degree
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (87.80%) Terraform
2 19 (46.34%) Kubernetes
3 8 (19.51%) Ansible
4 6 (14.63%) Grafana
5 5 (12.20%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.32%) Consul
6 3 (7.32%) Packer
7 1 (2.44%) Argo
7 1 (2.44%) Istio
7 1 (2.44%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Splunk
2 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.88%) Google
2 2 (4.88%) New Relic
2 2 (4.88%) VMware
3 1 (2.44%) Databricks
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) SAP