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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 674 740 974
Rank change year-on-year +66 +234 -420
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 148 182 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.23% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 112 142 130
10th Percentile £56,300 £52,500 £53,625
25th Percentile £60,950 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £91,563 £81,875 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £105,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +20.83%

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 81,669 80,804 129,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.51% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,824 51,446 74,737
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 17 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 17 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 80 £85,000 +13.33% 11
North of England +2 39 £60,000 -14.29% 8
North West -18 21 £60,000 -15.79% 6
Midlands +5 19 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Yorkshire +44 17 £60,000 -13.60% 2
West Midlands +19 11 £70,000 +3.70% 2
East Midlands -3 8 £60,000 -40.00%
South West -44 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
North East -2 3 £80,000 +14.29%
South East -7 3 £60,000 -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 17 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.

1 148 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 109 (73.65%) Azure
3 96 (64.86%) Terraform
4 94 (63.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (59.46%) DevOps
6 76 (51.35%) Kubernetes
7 70 (47.30%) CI/CD
8 67 (45.27%) Python
9 66 (44.59%) Docker
10 65 (43.92%) AWS
11 54 (36.49%) PowerShell
12 47 (31.76%) Bash
13 44 (29.73%) Ansible
14 41 (27.70%) Microsoft
15 39 (26.35%) Social Skills
16 36 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
17 34 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
18 33 (22.30%) Agile
19 32 (21.62%) Containerisation
20 31 (20.95%) PaaS
21 29 (19.59%) Configuration Management
21 29 (19.59%) Java
21 29 (19.59%) SQL
22 28 (18.92%) Infrastructure Automation
22 28 (18.92%) Azure AKS
23 27 (18.24%) Jenkins
23 27 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
24 25 (16.89%) GitHub
24 25 (16.89%) Linux
24 25 (16.89%) Bicep

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 (6.08%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 109 (73.65%) Azure
2 65 (43.92%) AWS
3 36 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (20.95%) PaaS
5 28 (18.92%) Azure AKS
6 25 (16.89%) GitHub
7 23 (15.54%) Serverless
8 18 (12.16%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (12.16%) IaaS
9 16 (10.81%) GCP
10 14 (9.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 13 (8.78%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (8.11%) Amazon S3
12 12 (8.11%) Route 53
12 12 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (6.76%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (6.76%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (6.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.78%) Network Security
2 8 (5.41%) Firewall
3 4 (2.70%) DNS
4 3 (2.03%) IPv4
4 3 (2.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (10.14%) MongoDB
2 15 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.46%) MySQL
4 12 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (7.43%) MariaDB
5 11 (7.43%) Redis
6 9 (6.08%) BigQuery
7 7 (4.73%) Power BI
8 4 (2.70%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 27 (18.24%) Jenkins
2 19 (12.84%) Git
3 10 (6.76%) JIRA
3 10 (6.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 9 (6.08%) Bitbucket
4 9 (6.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (6.08%) Subversion
5 6 (4.05%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (2.03%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.03%) GitLab
7 2 (1.35%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
General
1 39 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.22%) Finance
3 17 (11.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (11.49%) Retail
4 15 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.73%) Law
6 6 (4.05%) Banking
7 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.35%) Legal
7 2 (1.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.68%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.46%) ARM Templates
2 11 (7.43%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (5.41%) SAML
4 5 (3.38%) Kafka
5 2 (1.35%) Loki
5 2 (1.35%) REST
6 1 (0.68%) .NET
6 1 (0.68%) ADO
6 1 (0.68%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.68%) Middleware
6 1 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (9.46%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (6.08%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.08%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.41%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.38%) Blog
6 5 (3.38%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.70%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.68%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.68%) Digital Currency
9 1 (0.68%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.89%) Linux
2 13 (8.78%) Windows
3 10 (6.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.35%) VMS
6 1 (0.68%) CentOS
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 94 (63.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 88 (59.46%) DevOps
4 70 (47.30%) CI/CD
5 34 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (22.30%) Agile
7 32 (21.62%) Containerisation
8 29 (19.59%) Configuration Management
9 28 (18.92%) Infrastructure Automation
10 27 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (15.54%) Continuous Integration
12 22 (14.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (14.19%) Network Virtualisation
14 19 (12.84%) Cloud Security
15 16 (10.81%) Analytics
16 15 (10.14%) Identity Access Management
16 15 (10.14%) Machine Learning
16 15 (10.14%) Migration
17 14 (9.46%) Data Protection
18 13 (8.78%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 67 (45.27%) Python
2 54 (36.49%) PowerShell
3 47 (31.76%) Bash
4 29 (19.59%) Java
4 29 (19.59%) SQL
5 25 (16.89%) Bicep
6 19 (12.84%) Go
7 9 (6.08%) C#
7 9 (6.08%) Groovy
8 8 (5.41%) Perl
8 8 (5.41%) Ruby
9 7 (4.73%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.73%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.05%) PHP
11 1 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.43%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.76%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.73%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.70%) Degree
8 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.05%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.35%) GDPR
3 2 (1.35%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) SEPA
System Software
1 66 (44.59%) Docker
2 10 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 96 (64.86%) Terraform
2 76 (51.35%) Kubernetes
3 44 (29.73%) Ansible
4 20 (13.51%) Progress Chef
4 20 (13.51%) Puppet
5 16 (10.81%) Grafana
5 16 (10.81%) Prometheus
6 14 (9.46%) Salt
7 12 (8.11%) Packer
8 7 (4.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.35%) Kibana
9 2 (1.35%) logstash
9 2 (1.35%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.68%) Consul
10 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 41 (27.70%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.78%) Google
3 9 (6.08%) Atlassian
4 8 (5.41%) New Relic
5 6 (4.05%) SaltStack
6 5 (3.38%) Databricks
7 4 (2.70%) Splunk
8 2 (1.35%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.35%) PagerDuty