Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the UK is £528 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 513 600 603
Rank change year-on-year +87 +3 -125
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 85 119 252
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.21% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 103 209
10th Percentile £425 £481 £463
25th Percentile £463 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% +2.17% -
75th Percentile £598 £625 £600
90th Percentile £645 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -10.64% +6.82% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +99 65 £543 -7.57% 27
London +81 41 £575 -4.17% 11
UK excluding London +51 33 £525 -10.64% 26
Work from Home +90 31 £520 -13.33% 24
Scotland +38 12 £470 -9.53% 6
North of England +28 10 £550 -4.35% 9
South East +14 8 £538 -8.51% 2
Yorkshire +17 5 £525 -8.70% 2
North West +14 5 £550 -5.38% 5
West Midlands - 4 £375 - 2
Midlands - 4 £375 - 3
South West +20 1 £500 -13.04% 2

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

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 featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (90.59%) Platform Engineering
2 62 (72.94%) Terraform
3 53 (62.35%) DevOps
4 52 (61.18%) AWS
5 42 (49.41%) Python
5 42 (49.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (43.53%) Azure
6 37 (43.53%) CI/CD
7 36 (42.35%) Kubernetes
8 27 (31.76%) Docker
9 25 (29.41%) Bash
10 24 (28.24%) Ansible
11 20 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (23.53%) Git
11 20 (23.53%) Linux
11 20 (23.53%) Agile
12 19 (22.35%) Security Cleared
12 19 (22.35%) Serverless
13 18 (21.18%) Containerisation
14 17 (20.00%) Social Skills
14 17 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (18.82%) SC Cleared
16 15 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (17.65%) Grafana
16 15 (17.65%) Jenkins
17 14 (16.47%) AWS CloudFormation
18 13 (15.29%) GCP
19 12 (14.12%) GitLab
19 12 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
19 12 (14.12%) Amazon S3

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 6 (7.06%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (7.06%) Confluence
2 4 (4.71%) nginx
3 2 (2.35%) Apache
3 2 (2.35%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (61.18%) AWS
2 37 (43.53%) Azure
3 20 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (22.35%) Serverless
5 17 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (16.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (15.29%) GCP
9 12 (14.12%) Amazon S3
10 11 (12.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (12.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (11.76%) Snowflake
12 9 (10.59%) IaaS
13 8 (9.41%) Datadog
13 8 (9.41%) PaaS
14 7 (8.24%) OpenShift
15 6 (7.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 6 (7.06%) GitHub
16 5 (5.88%) Azure AKS
16 5 (5.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.76%) DNS
2 7 (8.24%) Firewall
3 4 (4.71%) IPv4
4 3 (3.53%) Network Security
4 3 (3.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.53%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.53%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.53%) InfluxDB
3 3 (3.53%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.53%) MySQL
4 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.35%) MariaDB
4 2 (2.35%) Redis
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.18%) Bigtable
5 1 (1.18%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.18%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.18%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 20 (23.53%) Git
2 15 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 12 (14.12%) GitLab
4 6 (7.06%) Artifactory
4 6 (7.06%) JIRA
5 4 (4.71%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.53%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.35%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.18%) GoCD
8 1 (1.18%) Snyk
General
1 17 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.94%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.59%) Finance
4 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.35%) Billing
6 1 (1.18%) Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.24%) YAML
2 6 (7.06%) AWS CDK
3 5 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (3.53%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.53%) JSON
5 2 (2.35%) Django
5 2 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.35%) HornetQ
5 2 (2.35%) Kafka
5 2 (2.35%) Node.js
5 2 (2.35%) REST
5 2 (2.35%) VCL
6 1 (1.18%) AWS SAM
6 1 (1.18%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.18%) PKI
3 1 (1.18%) PropTech
3 1 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (23.53%) Linux
2 9 (10.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.06%) Debian
3 6 (7.06%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.71%) Windows
5 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (90.59%) Platform Engineering
2 53 (62.35%) DevOps
3 42 (49.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (43.53%) CI/CD
5 20 (23.53%) Agile
6 18 (21.18%) Containerisation
7 12 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (10.59%) Test Automation
10 8 (9.41%) Computer Science
10 8 (9.41%) Configuration Management
10 8 (9.41%) DevSecOps
10 8 (9.41%) GitOps
11 7 (8.24%) Data Engineering
11 7 (8.24%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (8.24%) Identity Access Management
12 6 (7.06%) DataOps
12 6 (7.06%) MLOps
12 6 (7.06%) Observability
13 5 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (49.41%) Python
2 25 (29.41%) Bash
3 12 (14.12%) Java
4 11 (12.94%) PowerShell
5 9 (10.59%) Go
6 8 (9.41%) SQL
7 7 (8.24%) Scala
8 6 (7.06%) Groovy
9 5 (5.88%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.53%) Ruby
11 2 (2.35%) Bicep
11 2 (2.35%) C
11 2 (2.35%) C++
11 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
11 2 (2.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (22.35%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (31.76%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.53%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.35%) Varnish
4 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (72.94%) Terraform
2 36 (42.35%) Kubernetes
3 24 (28.24%) Ansible
4 15 (17.65%) Grafana
5 8 (9.41%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.06%) Kibana
7 3 (3.53%) Consul
7 3 (3.53%) HP Fortify
7 3 (3.53%) Packer
8 2 (2.35%) Argo
8 2 (2.35%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.18%) Istio
9 1 (1.18%) Puppet
9 1 (1.18%) Rundeck
9 1 (1.18%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 11 (12.94%) Databricks
2 7 (8.24%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.71%) Splunk
4 3 (3.53%) Google
4 3 (3.53%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.53%) New Relic
4 3 (3.53%) VMware
5 2 (2.35%) Cisco
5 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.18%) BMC
6 1 (1.18%) Remedy
6 1 (1.18%) SAP
6 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.18%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.18%) webMethods