Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 752 777 1036
Rank change year-on-year +25 +259 -457
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 157 186 204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.21% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 121 139 154
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £93,750 £78,750 £91,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +15.75% +26.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 96,812 89,556 159,527
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.45% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 69,148 56,816 85,173
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 May 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
England +51 144 £70,000 - 39
Work from Home +2 76 £75,000 +8.00% 25
London +122 74 £88,750 +14.52% 19
UK excluding London -53 73 £60,000 -13.60% 29
North of England +8 41 £60,000 -13.60% 10
North West -3 22 £60,000 -14.29% 8
Midlands +5 19 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Yorkshire +41 18 £60,000 -13.60% 2
West Midlands +9 11 £70,000 +3.70% 3
East Midlands -11 8 £60,000 -40.00%
South West -48 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
Wales +8 4 £53,750 - 2
North East -1 3 £80,000 +14.29%
South East -4 3 £60,000 -14.29% 10
Scotland -69 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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 featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 156 (99.36%) Platform Engineering
2 118 (75.16%) Azure
3 101 (64.33%) Terraform
4 99 (63.06%) DevOps
5 94 (59.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 75 (47.77%) Kubernetes
7 72 (45.86%) CI/CD
8 69 (43.95%) AWS
9 66 (42.04%) Python
10 63 (40.13%) Docker
11 58 (36.94%) PowerShell
12 48 (30.57%) Bash
13 47 (29.94%) Microsoft
13 47 (29.94%) Azure DevOps
14 43 (27.39%) Social Skills
15 40 (25.48%) Ansible
16 39 (24.84%) Containerisation
17 36 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
18 35 (22.29%) SQL
19 34 (21.66%) Agile
19 34 (21.66%) PaaS
20 31 (19.75%) Azure AKS
21 25 (15.92%) Infrastructure Automation
21 25 (15.92%) Finance
21 25 (15.92%) Java
21 25 (15.92%) Linux
21 25 (15.92%) Configuration Management
21 25 (15.92%) Jenkins
21 25 (15.92%) Serverless
22 24 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement

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 (5.73%) Confluence
2 2 (1.27%) SAS
3 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 118 (75.16%) Azure
2 69 (43.95%) AWS
3 47 (29.94%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (21.66%) PaaS
5 31 (19.75%) Azure AKS
6 25 (15.92%) Serverless
7 24 (15.29%) GitHub
8 21 (13.38%) IaaS
9 18 (11.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 18 (11.46%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (11.46%) GCP
10 13 (8.28%) Entra ID
11 11 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (6.37%) Amazon S3
12 10 (6.37%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (6.37%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (6.37%) Route 53
13 9 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (5.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.28%) Network Security
2 12 (7.64%) Firewall
3 7 (4.46%) IPv4
3 7 (4.46%) VPN
4 3 (1.91%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (9.55%) MongoDB
4 14 (8.92%) MySQL
5 11 (7.01%) MariaDB
5 11 (7.01%) Redis
6 9 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (5.73%) BigQuery
6 9 (5.73%) Power BI
7 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.64%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (15.92%) Jenkins
2 22 (14.01%) Git
3 10 (6.37%) JIRA
3 10 (6.37%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (5.10%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (4.46%) Subversion
6 6 (3.82%) GitLab
6 6 (3.82%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.91%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.64%) MLflow
9 1 (0.64%) Vagrant
General
1 43 (27.39%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.92%) Finance
3 17 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (10.83%) Retail
4 6 (3.82%) Banking
4 6 (3.82%) Law
5 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.64%) Games
6 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.64%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.92%) ARM Templates
2 12 (7.64%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.18%) Kafka
3 5 (3.18%) SAML
4 4 (2.55%) REST
5 2 (1.27%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.27%) Loki
6 1 (0.64%) .NET
6 1 (0.64%) ADO
6 1 (0.64%) Middleware
6 1 (0.64%) Node.js
6 1 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.01%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (9.55%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.64%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (7.01%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.10%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (5.10%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.18%) Blog
7 4 (2.55%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.55%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.64%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.64%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.64%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.92%) Linux
2 15 (9.55%) Windows
3 9 (5.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.46%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.27%) VMS
6 1 (0.64%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (99.36%) Platform Engineering
2 99 (63.06%) DevOps
3 94 (59.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (45.86%) CI/CD
5 39 (24.84%) Containerisation
6 36 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (21.66%) Agile
8 25 (15.92%) Configuration Management
8 25 (15.92%) Infrastructure Automation
9 24 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (14.65%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (14.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (13.38%) Network Virtualisation
13 19 (12.10%) Cloud Security
14 18 (11.46%) Analytics
15 16 (10.19%) Machine Learning
16 14 (8.92%) Data Protection
17 13 (8.28%) Migration
18 12 (7.64%) DataOps
18 12 (7.64%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (42.04%) Python
2 58 (36.94%) PowerShell
3 48 (30.57%) Bash
4 35 (22.29%) SQL
5 25 (15.92%) Java
6 24 (15.29%) Bicep
7 19 (12.10%) Go
8 10 (6.37%) Groovy
9 9 (5.73%) C#
10 8 (5.10%) Ruby
11 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
11 7 (4.46%) TypeScript
12 6 (3.82%) Perl
12 6 (3.82%) PHP
13 1 (0.64%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (8.28%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.37%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.10%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.10%) Degree
5 7 (4.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.46%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.27%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) QA
4 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.64%) SEPA
System Software
1 63 (40.13%) Docker
2 14 (8.92%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 101 (64.33%) Terraform
2 75 (47.77%) Kubernetes
3 40 (25.48%) Ansible
4 18 (11.46%) Grafana
5 17 (10.83%) Prometheus
6 15 (9.55%) Progress Chef
6 15 (9.55%) Puppet
7 10 (6.37%) Packer
8 9 (5.73%) Salt
9 6 (3.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (3.18%) Karpenter
11 3 (1.91%) Kibana
12 2 (1.27%) logstash
12 2 (1.27%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.64%) Consul
13 1 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 47 (29.94%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.28%) Google
3 8 (5.10%) Atlassian
3 8 (5.10%) New Relic
4 6 (3.82%) Databricks
4 6 (3.82%) SaltStack
5 4 (2.55%) Splunk
6 2 (1.27%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.27%) PagerDuty