Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in England is £543 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

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

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 577 637
Rank change year-on-year +101 +60 -120
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 65 96 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.20% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 81 111
10th Percentile £425 £481 £450
25th Percentile £500 £525 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% +2.17% +6.48%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £628
90th Percentile £649 £711 £700
UK median daily rate £528 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -10.21% +2.17% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,448 47,601 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,861 33,797 48,247
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,402 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.95 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +79 41 £575 -4.17% 21
North of England +24 10 £550 -4.35% 11
South East +6 8 £538 -8.51% 2
North West +25 5 £550 -5.38% 6
Yorkshire +23 5 £525 -8.70% 3
West Midlands - 4 £375 - 2
Midlands - 4 £375 - 5
South West +15 1 £500 -13.04% 2
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 England region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (95.38%) Platform Engineering
2 51 (78.46%) Terraform
3 35 (53.85%) DevOps
3 35 (53.85%) AWS
4 33 (50.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (46.15%) Azure
6 28 (43.08%) Python
7 27 (41.54%) CI/CD
8 22 (33.85%) Kubernetes
9 20 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (29.23%) Docker
10 19 (29.23%) Git
11 18 (27.69%) Ansible
12 17 (26.15%) Bash
13 14 (21.54%) SC Cleared
13 14 (21.54%) Security Cleared
13 14 (21.54%) Linux
13 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
14 13 (20.00%) Serverless
14 13 (20.00%) Agile
15 12 (18.46%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (16.92%) PowerShell
16 11 (16.92%) Containerisation
16 11 (16.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (16.92%) GCP
16 11 (16.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (15.38%) DNS
18 9 (13.85%) Finance
18 9 (13.85%) Go
18 9 (13.85%) IaaS

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 4 (6.15%) nginx
2 2 (3.08%) Apache
2 2 (3.08%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (53.85%) AWS
2 30 (46.15%) Azure
3 20 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (20.00%) Serverless
5 12 (18.46%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (16.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (16.92%) GCP
6 11 (16.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (13.85%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (13.85%) IaaS
8 8 (12.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (12.31%) Datadog
8 8 (12.31%) PaaS
9 6 (9.23%) Amazon S3
10 5 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (7.69%) Azure AKS
10 5 (7.69%) GitHub
11 4 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.38%) DNS
2 7 (10.77%) Firewall
3 4 (6.15%) IPv4
4 3 (4.62%) VPN
5 2 (3.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.62%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.62%) MySQL
2 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.08%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.08%) Redis
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.54%) Bigtable
4 1 (1.54%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.54%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.54%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 19 (29.23%) Git
2 9 (13.85%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.23%) GitLab
4 4 (6.15%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.08%) JIRA
5 2 (3.08%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.54%) GoCD
6 1 (1.54%) Snyk
General
1 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Finance
3 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.08%) Billing
6 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.77%) YAML
2 3 (4.62%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.62%) JSON
3 2 (3.08%) Django
3 2 (3.08%) HornetQ
3 2 (3.08%) Kafka
3 2 (3.08%) Node.js
3 2 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.08%) REST
3 2 (3.08%) VCL
4 1 (1.54%) AWS SAM
4 1 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.54%) PKI
2 1 (1.54%) PropTech
2 1 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.54%) Linux
2 6 (9.23%) Debian
3 4 (6.15%) Windows
4 3 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (95.38%) Platform Engineering
2 35 (53.85%) DevOps
3 33 (50.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (41.54%) CI/CD
5 13 (20.00%) Agile
6 11 (16.92%) Containerisation
7 8 (12.31%) Configuration Management
7 8 (12.31%) DevSecOps
8 7 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (6.15%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (6.15%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (6.15%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (6.15%) Test Automation
11 3 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence
11 3 (4.62%) Scrum
11 3 (4.62%) Service Management
11 3 (4.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.08%) Python
2 17 (26.15%) Bash
3 11 (16.92%) PowerShell
4 9 (13.85%) Go
5 8 (12.31%) SQL
6 6 (9.23%) Java
7 5 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.62%) Ruby
9 2 (3.08%) Bicep
9 2 (3.08%) C
9 2 (3.08%) C++
9 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.08%) Rust
10 1 (1.54%) Groovy
10 1 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (21.54%) SC Cleared
1 14 (21.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.23%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.08%) Degree
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 19 (29.23%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.62%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (3.08%) Varnish
4 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (78.46%) Terraform
2 22 (33.85%) Kubernetes
3 18 (27.69%) Ansible
4 7 (10.77%) Grafana
5 6 (9.23%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.62%) Consul
6 3 (4.62%) HP Fortify
6 3 (4.62%) Packer
7 2 (3.08%) Argo
7 2 (3.08%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.08%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.54%) Istio
8 1 (1.54%) Puppet
8 1 (1.54%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.54%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Red Hat
2 4 (6.15%) Splunk
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.62%) New Relic
3 3 (4.62%) VMware
4 2 (3.08%) Cisco
4 2 (3.08%) Databricks
4 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.08%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) BMC
5 1 (1.54%) Remedy
5 1 (1.54%) SAP
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.54%) webMethods