Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in the South East

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > South East

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the South East is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 206 244
Rank change year-on-year +14 +38 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 8 20 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.36% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 12
10th Percentile £514 £565 £481
25th Percentile £515 £581 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £588 £623
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% -5.62% +17.18%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £675
90th Percentile - £610 £748
England median daily rate £543 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -7.57% +2.17% +5.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,114 5,511 7,446
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.54% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 3,843 5,039
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £615 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 238 337
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £15.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the South East

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the South East

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
East Sussex - 6 £538 -
Thames Valley +6 1 £525 +12.00% 2
Berkshire - 1 £525 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 South East region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Ansible
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 6 (75.00%) Debian
2 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
3 5 (62.50%) Bash
3 5 (62.50%) Datadog
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Terraform
5 3 (37.50%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (37.50%) Git
5 3 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (37.50%) CloudFront
5 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Route 53
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (25.00%) GitHub
6 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (25.00%) Azure

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Datadog
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (37.50%) CloudFront
3 3 (37.50%) Route 53
3 3 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Fastly
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Django
1 2 (25.00%) HornetQ
1 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (25.00%) VCL
1 2 (25.00%) YAML
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Debian
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (12.50%) Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Auto-Scaling
6 1 (12.50%) B2C
6 1 (12.50%) Boundary Protection
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Release Management
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) Service Management
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
1 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (25.00%) Varnish
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) HAProxy
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) BMC
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Remedy
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow