Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary 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 721 751 1016
Rank change year-on-year +30 +265 -409
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 142 143 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.19% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 104 111 126
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £94,063 £80,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -9.68% +29.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +119 69 £92,500 +19.35% 7
North of England -8 44 £60,000 -13.95% 5
North West -20 25 £60,000 -15.46% 5
Midlands -24 19 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Yorkshire +44 18 £60,000 -13.60%
West Midlands -4 11 £70,000 +3.70% 3
East Midlands -22 8 £60,000 -40.00%
South West -52 5 £65,000 -10.34% 4
North East -15 3 £80,000 +14.29%
South East -33 2 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the England region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 142 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 112 (78.87%) Azure
3 85 (59.86%) DevOps
3 85 (59.86%) Terraform
4 81 (57.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (45.77%) Kubernetes
6 63 (44.37%) CI/CD
7 60 (42.25%) PowerShell
8 57 (40.14%) Python
9 52 (36.62%) AWS
10 51 (35.92%) Docker
11 46 (32.39%) Bash
12 43 (30.28%) Microsoft
13 41 (28.87%) Azure DevOps
14 39 (27.46%) Ansible
15 38 (26.76%) Social Skills
16 34 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (23.24%) Containerisation
18 29 (20.42%) PaaS
19 28 (19.72%) SQL
19 28 (19.72%) Agile
20 27 (19.01%) Azure AKS
21 26 (18.31%) Finance
22 25 (17.61%) Bicep
23 24 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
24 23 (16.20%) Continuous Integration
24 23 (16.20%) Configuration Management
25 22 (15.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
26 21 (14.79%) Infrastructure Automation
26 21 (14.79%) Network Virtualisation

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.11%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 112 (78.87%) Azure
2 52 (36.62%) AWS
3 41 (28.87%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (20.42%) PaaS
5 27 (19.01%) Azure AKS
6 18 (12.68%) Cloud Computing
6 18 (12.68%) GitHub
7 17 (11.97%) GCP
7 17 (11.97%) IaaS
8 14 (9.86%) Serverless
9 13 (9.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (7.04%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (7.04%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (6.34%) Power Platform
12 8 (5.63%) Datadog
12 8 (5.63%) Entra ID
13 7 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (4.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (4.93%) Pulumi
13 7 (4.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.15%) Network Security
2 9 (6.34%) Firewall
3 2 (1.41%) IPv4
3 2 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (11.27%) MongoDB
2 16 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.86%) MySQL
4 11 (7.75%) MariaDB
4 11 (7.75%) Redis
5 9 (6.34%) BigQuery
5 9 (6.34%) Power BI
6 5 (3.52%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (12.68%) Git
2 17 (11.97%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.04%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (4.23%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (3.52%) GitLab
6 4 (2.82%) JIRA
7 3 (2.11%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.41%) Subversion
8 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.70%) Vagrant
General
1 38 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.31%) Finance
3 17 (11.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (11.97%) Retail
4 15 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.93%) Law
6 6 (4.23%) Banking
7 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Legal
7 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.70%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.56%) ARM Templates
2 10 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.52%) Kafka
4 3 (2.11%) Loki
4 3 (2.11%) SAML
5 2 (1.41%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.41%) REST
6 1 (0.70%) .NET
6 1 (0.70%) ADO
6 1 (0.70%) Middleware
6 1 (0.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (7.75%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.34%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.34%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.52%) Blog
6 4 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.82%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.70%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.70%) Digital Currency
8 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.38%) Linux
2 15 (10.56%) Windows
3 7 (4.93%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.11%) VMS
6 1 (0.70%) CentOS
6 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 85 (59.86%) DevOps
3 81 (57.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (44.37%) CI/CD
5 34 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (23.24%) Containerisation
7 28 (19.72%) Agile
8 24 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (16.20%) Configuration Management
9 23 (16.20%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (15.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (14.79%) Infrastructure Automation
11 21 (14.79%) Network Virtualisation
12 19 (13.38%) Analytics
12 19 (13.38%) Cloud Security
13 17 (11.97%) Machine Learning
14 14 (9.86%) Data Protection
15 13 (9.15%) DataOps
16 12 (8.45%) Design Patterns
17 11 (7.75%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 60 (42.25%) PowerShell
2 57 (40.14%) Python
3 46 (32.39%) Bash
4 28 (19.72%) SQL
5 25 (17.61%) Bicep
6 20 (14.08%) Go
7 16 (11.27%) Java
8 9 (6.34%) C#
9 8 (5.63%) Groovy
9 8 (5.63%) Ruby
10 7 (4.93%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.93%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.23%) PHP
12 3 (2.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (7.75%) Azure Certification
2 10 (7.04%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.93%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.82%) Degree
8 3 (2.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.93%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.41%) GDPR
3 2 (1.41%) QA
4 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 51 (35.92%) Docker
2 9 (6.34%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (5.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 85 (59.86%) Terraform
2 65 (45.77%) Kubernetes
3 39 (27.46%) Ansible
4 16 (11.27%) Grafana
4 16 (11.27%) Prometheus
5 11 (7.75%) Progress Chef
6 10 (7.04%) Puppet
7 6 (4.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (4.23%) Packer
8 4 (2.82%) Salt
9 3 (2.11%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.41%) Kibana
10 2 (1.41%) logstash
10 2 (1.41%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.70%) Consul
11 1 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 43 (30.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.15%) Google
3 8 (5.63%) New Relic
4 7 (4.93%) Databricks
5 6 (4.23%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.82%) Splunk
7 3 (2.11%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.41%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.41%) PagerDuty