Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 November 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
18 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 96 130
Rank change year-on-year +9 +34 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 7 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.52% 0.75% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.79% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 15
10th Percentile £381 £514 £500
25th Percentile £406 £518 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -41.07% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £470 - £588
90th Percentile £566 - £725
England median daily rate £475 £600 £528
% change year-on-year -20.83% +13.74% -4.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,222 1,772 2,782
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 94.56% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 1,152 1,879
10th Percentile £220 £230 £210
25th Percentile £380 £390 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 28 56
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.79 £10.20
25th Percentile £18.57 £18.18 £14.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.66 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +3.66% +30.56%
75th Percentile £40.13 £27.60 £23.75
90th Percentile £48.75 £44.15 £28.63
England median hourly rate £40.00 £46.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +53.33% +50.00%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in Yorkshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in Yorkshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in Yorkshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
West Yorkshire +11 7 £413 -41.07% 2
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 November 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 Yorkshire region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) GitHub
4 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
6 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
7 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
7 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
7 1 (14.29%) Information Security
7 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (14.29%) IaaS
7 1 (14.29%) Docker
7 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
7 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
7 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (14.29%) PaaS
7 1 (14.29%) Bash
7 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
7 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) GitHub
2 5 (71.43%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (14.29%) Information Security
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft