Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 689 739 971
Rank change year-on-year +50 +232 -416
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 144 189 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.22% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 113 149 135
10th Percentile £56,900 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% +29.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £106,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

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

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,510 84,770 126,878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,250 53,679 75,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,833 £60,775 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% +1.29% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +148 78 £77,500 - 20
North of England -8 37 £60,000 -13.95% 11
North West -8 20 £60,000 -15.79% 6
Midlands +17 18 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Yorkshire +57 16 £60,000 -13.60% 3
West Midlands +29 11 £70,000 +3.70% 2
East Midlands -6 7 £60,000 -40.00% 1
South West -46 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
South East +4 4 £68,750 -1.79% 2
North East -2 3 £80,000 +14.29% 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 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 job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 144 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 104 (72.22%) Azure
3 93 (64.58%) Terraform
3 93 (64.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (60.42%) DevOps
5 74 (51.39%) Kubernetes
6 71 (49.31%) CI/CD
7 70 (48.61%) Python
8 68 (47.22%) AWS
9 63 (43.75%) Docker
10 49 (34.03%) PowerShell
11 41 (28.47%) Bash
12 40 (27.78%) Ansible
12 40 (27.78%) Social Skills
13 36 (25.00%) Microsoft
14 34 (23.61%) Azure DevOps
15 33 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (22.22%) Configuration Management
16 32 (22.22%) Java
17 31 (21.53%) Agile
17 31 (21.53%) Containerisation
18 29 (20.14%) Linux
19 28 (19.44%) Jenkins
19 28 (19.44%) Infrastructure Automation
20 27 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
20 27 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
21 25 (17.36%) PaaS
22 24 (16.67%) Puppet
22 24 (16.67%) SQL
22 24 (16.67%) Azure AKS

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 9 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 104 (72.22%) Azure
2 68 (47.22%) AWS
3 34 (23.61%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (17.36%) PaaS
5 24 (16.67%) Azure AKS
6 22 (15.28%) Serverless
7 19 (13.19%) GitHub
8 18 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (12.50%) IaaS
9 15 (10.42%) GCP
10 13 (9.03%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (8.33%) Amazon S3
11 12 (8.33%) Route 53
11 12 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (7.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (7.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (6.94%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (5.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.03%) Network Security
2 7 (4.86%) Firewall
3 4 (2.78%) DNS
4 3 (2.08%) IPv4
4 3 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 12 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.64%) MySQL
4 9 (6.25%) BigQuery
5 8 (5.56%) MariaDB
5 8 (5.56%) Redis
6 7 (4.86%) Power BI
7 4 (2.78%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 18 (12.50%) Git
3 10 (6.94%) JIRA
4 9 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 9 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (6.25%) Subversion
5 6 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (2.08%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.39%) GitLab
8 2 (1.39%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.69%) Vagrant
General
1 40 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.58%) Finance
3 19 (13.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (11.81%) Retail
5 15 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.86%) Law
7 6 (4.17%) Banking
8 2 (1.39%) Legal
8 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.72%) ARM Templates
2 7 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (4.17%) SAML
4 5 (3.47%) Kafka
5 2 (1.39%) Loki
5 2 (1.39%) REST
6 1 (0.69%) .NET
6 1 (0.69%) ADO
6 1 (0.69%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.69%) Middleware
6 1 (0.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (11.81%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.56%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.47%) Blog
7 4 (2.78%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.39%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.69%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.69%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.14%) Linux
2 13 (9.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (8.33%) Windows
4 5 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.69%) CentOS
6 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 93 (64.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 87 (60.42%) DevOps
4 71 (49.31%) CI/CD
5 33 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 31 (21.53%) Agile
7 31 (21.53%) Containerisation
8 28 (19.44%) Infrastructure Automation
9 27 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (15.97%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (14.58%) Network Virtualisation
12 19 (13.19%) Cloud Security
13 18 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (11.11%) Innovative Thinking
15 14 (9.72%) Analytics
15 14 (9.72%) Data Protection
15 14 (9.72%) Machine Learning
15 14 (9.72%) Migration
15 14 (9.72%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 70 (48.61%) Python
2 49 (34.03%) PowerShell
3 41 (28.47%) Bash
4 32 (22.22%) Java
5 24 (16.67%) Bicep
5 24 (16.67%) SQL
6 19 (13.19%) Go
7 11 (7.64%) Perl
8 10 (6.94%) Groovy
9 9 (6.25%) C#
10 8 (5.56%) Ruby
11 7 (4.86%) JavaScript
11 7 (4.86%) TypeScript
12 6 (4.17%) PHP
13 1 (0.69%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (9.03%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.94%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.86%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.78%) Degree
8 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) QA
4 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 63 (43.75%) Docker
2 10 (6.94%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (4.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 93 (64.58%) Terraform
2 74 (51.39%) Kubernetes
3 40 (27.78%) Ansible
4 24 (16.67%) Puppet
5 23 (15.97%) Progress Chef
6 17 (11.81%) Salt
7 16 (11.11%) Grafana
7 16 (11.11%) Prometheus
8 12 (8.33%) Packer
9 4 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.39%) Kibana
10 2 (1.39%) logstash
10 2 (1.39%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.69%) Consul
Vendors
1 36 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.03%) Google
3 9 (6.25%) Atlassian
4 8 (5.56%) New Relic
5 7 (4.86%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.78%) Databricks
6 4 (2.78%) Splunk
7 2 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.39%) PagerDuty