Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 400 450
Rank change year-on-year +91 +50 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 32 68 169
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.28% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 64 144
10th Percentile £428 £525 £450
25th Percentile £453 £575 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £620 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,102 23,924 42,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.36% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 16,894 30,368
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 548 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.27
25th Percentile £23.37 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.87 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

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
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate 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 9 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
2 27 (84.38%) DevOps
3 24 (75.00%) Terraform
4 22 (68.75%) AWS
5 19 (59.38%) Python
5 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
6 18 (56.25%) Azure
6 18 (56.25%) Kubernetes
7 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
9 11 (34.38%) Bash
9 11 (34.38%) Docker
10 10 (31.25%) Serverless
10 10 (31.25%) Containerisation
11 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
11 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
11 9 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (28.13%) Ansible
12 8 (25.00%) GitLab
12 8 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (25.00%) Grafana
12 8 (25.00%) Databricks
12 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (25.00%) Agile
12 8 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
13 7 (21.88%) Linux
13 7 (21.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
14 6 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (18.75%) Amazon S3

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 4 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) AWS
2 18 (56.25%) Azure
3 10 (31.25%) Serverless
4 9 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (21.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (18.75%) Amazon S3
8 5 (15.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (15.63%) OpenShift
8 5 (15.63%) Snowflake
9 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (12.50%) GCP
9 4 (12.50%) PaaS
10 3 (9.38%) IaaS
10 3 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) IPv4
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (9.38%) InfluxDB
2 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.00%) GitLab
3 5 (15.63%) Artifactory
3 5 (15.63%) Git
4 4 (12.50%) JIRA
5 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.13%) Snyk
5 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) AWS CDK
2 3 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.25%) YAML
4 1 (3.13%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
2 27 (84.38%) DevOps
3 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
4 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 8 (25.00%) Agile
6 8 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (18.75%) GitOps
7 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
8 5 (15.63%) Data Engineering
9 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
9 4 (12.50%) Configuration Management
9 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (12.50%) DataOps
9 4 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (12.50%) MLOps
9 4 (12.50%) Observability
9 4 (12.50%) Software Delivery
10 3 (9.38%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) Bash
3 4 (12.50%) Groovy
3 4 (12.50%) Java
3 4 (12.50%) Scala
4 3 (9.38%) Go
4 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.25%) Bicep
5 2 (6.25%) Ruby
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (75.00%) Terraform
2 18 (56.25%) Kubernetes
3 9 (28.13%) Ansible
4 8 (25.00%) Grafana
5 5 (15.63%) Kibana
6 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.13%) Argo
7 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) BMC
3 1 (3.13%) Remedy
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.13%) VMware