Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the UK is £521, 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 504 572 672
Rank change year-on-year +68 +100 -165
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 80 125 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.24% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 109 137
10th Percentile £392 £475 £470
25th Percentile £453 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% +2.56% +1.74%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £673
90th Percentile £641 £700 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £588 £563
% change year-on-year -14.04% +4.44% +7.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +40 60 £538 -10.42% 25
London +49 41 £525 -12.50% 7
Work from Home +68 31 £516 -13.96% 21
UK excluding London +6 29 £505 -14.04% 18
Scotland +57 12 £470 -7.16%
North of England +10 9 £550 -4.35% 5
Yorkshire +11 5 £500 -2.91%
South East -7 5 £525 -12.50% 2
North West +11 4 £550 -5.38% 5
West Midlands - 4 £375 - 3
Midlands - 4 £375 - 3
South West 0 1 £500 -13.04% 4

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

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 featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 74 (92.50%) Platform Engineering
2 59 (73.75%) Terraform
3 49 (61.25%) DevOps
4 46 (57.50%) AWS
5 42 (52.50%) Kubernetes
5 42 (52.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (51.25%) Python
7 39 (48.75%) CI/CD
8 36 (45.00%) Azure
9 27 (33.75%) Docker
10 23 (28.75%) Bash
11 21 (26.25%) Containerisation
12 20 (25.00%) Ansible
12 20 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (25.00%) Agile
13 19 (23.75%) Linux
13 19 (23.75%) Serverless
14 16 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (20.00%) Security Cleared
14 16 (20.00%) Git
15 15 (18.75%) Grafana
15 15 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
15 15 (18.75%) Jenkins
15 15 (18.75%) GCP
16 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
16 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
17 13 (16.25%) AWS CloudFormation
18 12 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
18 12 (15.00%) PowerShell

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 9 (11.25%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.25%) Confluence
3 2 (2.50%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (2.50%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 46 (57.50%) AWS
2 36 (45.00%) Azure
3 20 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (23.75%) Serverless
5 16 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (18.75%) GCP
7 13 (16.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (13.75%) Amazon S3
9 10 (12.50%) Snowflake
10 9 (11.25%) PaaS
11 8 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (10.00%) IaaS
12 7 (8.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (7.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (7.50%) Azure AKS
13 6 (7.50%) OpenShift
14 5 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
14 5 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) DNS
2 6 (7.50%) Firewall
3 4 (5.00%) IPv4
4 3 (3.75%) VPN
5 2 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.75%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.75%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.75%) InfluxDB
2 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.75%) MySQL
2 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.50%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.50%) Redis
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.25%) Bigtable
4 1 (1.25%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.25%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.25%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 16 (20.00%) Git
2 15 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 11 (13.75%) GitLab
4 6 (7.50%) Artifactory
5 5 (6.25%) JIRA
6 4 (5.00%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.25%) GoCD
8 1 (1.25%) Snyk
General
1 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.50%) Finance
4 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.50%) Billing
6 1 (1.25%) Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) AWS CDK
1 6 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (7.50%) YAML
2 4 (5.00%) Kafka
3 3 (3.75%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.75%) JSON
4 2 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.50%) Node.js
4 2 (2.50%) REST
5 1 (1.25%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) PropTech
4 1 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.75%) Linux
2 6 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (7.50%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.50%) Debian
4 1 (1.25%) Unix
4 1 (1.25%) Windows
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (92.50%) Platform Engineering
2 49 (61.25%) DevOps
3 42 (52.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (48.75%) CI/CD
5 21 (26.25%) Containerisation
6 20 (25.00%) Agile
7 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 9 (11.25%) Configuration Management
10 9 (11.25%) Test Automation
11 8 (10.00%) GitOps
12 7 (8.75%) Data Engineering
12 7 (8.75%) Deployment Automation
13 6 (7.50%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (7.50%) DataOps
13 6 (7.50%) Identity Access Management
13 6 (7.50%) MLOps
13 6 (7.50%) Observability
13 6 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (51.25%) Python
2 23 (28.75%) Bash
3 12 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 11 (13.75%) Go
4 11 (13.75%) Java
4 11 (13.75%) SQL
5 8 (10.00%) Scala
6 7 (8.75%) Groovy
7 4 (5.00%) C++
7 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.50%) Bicep
8 2 (2.50%) C
8 2 (2.50%) Ruby
8 2 (2.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.00%) Degree
5 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (33.75%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (73.75%) Terraform
2 42 (52.50%) Kubernetes
3 20 (25.00%) Ansible
4 15 (18.75%) Grafana
5 8 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.50%) Kibana
7 3 (3.75%) Consul
7 3 (3.75%) HP Fortify
7 3 (3.75%) Packer
8 2 (2.50%) Argo
8 2 (2.50%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.25%) Istio
9 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.25%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Databricks
2 7 (8.75%) Splunk
3 5 (6.25%) Google
4 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.75%) New Relic
5 3 (3.75%) VMware
6 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.25%) BMC
7 1 (1.25%) Remedy
7 1 (1.25%) SAP
7 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.25%) webMethods