Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in Work from Home is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 538 782
Rank change year-on-year +14 +244 -387
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 76 111 110
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.29% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.30% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 55 79 97
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £68,125 £55,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.60% +6.84% +36.84%
75th Percentile £98,125 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,000 £100,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +20.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,479 36,977 72,509
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 95.95% 97.33%
Number of salaries quoted 25,508 26,851 42,434
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Platform Engineer.

Cloud Platform Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Cloud Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 59 (77.63%) Terraform
3 52 (68.42%) DevOps
4 50 (65.79%) Azure
5 48 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (59.21%) Kubernetes
7 41 (53.95%) Python
8 36 (47.37%) Docker
8 36 (47.37%) AWS
9 35 (46.05%) CI/CD
10 24 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (31.58%) Ansible
11 22 (28.95%) PowerShell
11 22 (28.95%) Azure AKS
12 20 (26.32%) Java
12 20 (26.32%) SQL
12 20 (26.32%) Bash
12 20 (26.32%) GitHub
13 19 (25.00%) Agile
13 19 (25.00%) Serverless
14 18 (23.68%) Finance
15 17 (22.37%) Configuration Management
15 17 (22.37%) Microsoft
15 17 (22.37%) Jenkins
16 16 (21.05%) Go
16 16 (21.05%) PaaS
16 16 (21.05%) Containerisation
17 14 (18.42%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (18.42%) Retail
17 14 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (9.21%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 50 (65.79%) Azure
2 36 (47.37%) AWS
3 24 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (28.95%) Azure AKS
5 20 (26.32%) GitHub
6 19 (25.00%) Serverless
7 16 (21.05%) PaaS
8 14 (18.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (13.16%) GCP
10 9 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (11.84%) IaaS
11 8 (10.53%) Amazon S3
11 8 (10.53%) Datadog
11 8 (10.53%) Entra ID
11 8 (10.53%) Route 53
11 8 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (9.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (9.21%) Power Platform
12 7 (9.21%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.47%) Firewall
2 5 (6.58%) IPv4
2 5 (6.58%) VPN
3 2 (2.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.42%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (13.16%) MySQL
3 9 (11.84%) MariaDB
3 9 (11.84%) MongoDB
3 9 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.84%) Redis
4 8 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (9.21%) BigQuery
5 7 (9.21%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (22.37%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.84%) Git
3 8 (10.53%) JIRA
4 7 (9.21%) Bitbucket
5 6 (7.89%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (7.89%) Subversion
5 6 (7.89%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (3.95%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.32%) GitLab
7 1 (1.32%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (23.68%) Finance
2 14 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (18.42%) Retail
3 11 (14.47%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Banking
4 6 (7.89%) Law
5 1 (1.32%) Legal
5 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (7.89%) ARM Templates
3 5 (6.58%) Kafka
4 4 (5.26%) SAML
5 1 (1.32%) ADO
5 1 (1.32%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.32%) Middleware
5 1 (1.32%) Node.js
5 1 (1.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (14.47%) Data Centre
2 11 (14.47%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (9.21%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (9.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.58%) Blog
5 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.95%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.32%) Digital Currency
6 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.11%) Linux
2 7 (9.21%) Windows
3 6 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.89%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.32%) CentOS
4 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 52 (68.42%) DevOps
3 48 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (46.05%) CI/CD
5 19 (25.00%) Agile
6 17 (22.37%) Configuration Management
7 16 (21.05%) Containerisation
8 13 (17.11%) Analytics
8 13 (17.11%) Machine Learning
9 12 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (13.16%) Innovative Thinking
10 10 (13.16%) Migration
11 9 (11.84%) Design Patterns
11 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
12 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
13 7 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (9.21%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 41 (53.95%) Python
2 22 (28.95%) PowerShell
3 20 (26.32%) Bash
3 20 (26.32%) Java
3 20 (26.32%) SQL
4 16 (21.05%) Go
5 8 (10.53%) C#
5 8 (10.53%) Groovy
6 7 (9.21%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.89%) PHP
7 6 (7.89%) Ruby
8 5 (6.58%) Perl
9 3 (3.95%) Bicep
10 1 (1.32%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (11.84%) Azure Certification
2 8 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 8 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 8 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 7 (9.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.89%) Degree
5 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (47.37%) Docker
2 9 (11.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (77.63%) Terraform
2 45 (59.21%) Kubernetes
3 24 (31.58%) Ansible
4 13 (17.11%) Grafana
4 13 (17.11%) Progress Chef
4 13 (17.11%) Prometheus
4 13 (17.11%) Puppet
5 7 (9.21%) Packer
5 7 (9.21%) Salt
6 5 (6.58%) Karpenter
7 3 (3.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.63%) Rundeck
9 1 (1.32%) Consul
9 1 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 17 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.53%) Google
2 8 (10.53%) New Relic
3 7 (9.21%) Atlassian
4 6 (7.89%) Databricks
4 6 (7.89%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.63%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.63%) PagerDuty
5 2 (2.63%) Splunk