Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in London is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 573 779
Rank change year-on-year +142 +206 -302
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 78 56 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.17% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 63 36 80
10th Percentile £65,500 £56,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,170 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,250 £83,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -8.13% +18.57%
75th Percentile £100,625 £95,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% +29.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,176 33,447 64,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.02% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,669 24,574 34,911
10th Percentile £38,084 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Central London +57 7 £90,000 +4.96% 1
South London - 3 £110,000 -
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 65 (83.33%) Terraform
3 50 (64.10%) Kubernetes
4 47 (60.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (58.97%) Azure
6 45 (57.69%) AWS
7 42 (53.85%) DevOps
8 39 (50.00%) Python
9 38 (48.72%) Docker
10 35 (44.87%) CI/CD
11 26 (33.33%) Ansible
12 24 (30.77%) Java
13 21 (26.92%) Linux
13 21 (26.92%) Configuration Management
14 20 (25.64%) Serverless
15 19 (24.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 18 (23.08%) Jenkins
17 17 (21.79%) Puppet
17 17 (21.79%) Agile
17 17 (21.79%) PowerShell
18 16 (20.51%) GitHub
18 16 (20.51%) Progress Chef
18 16 (20.51%) Salt
18 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
18 16 (20.51%) Innovative Thinking
19 15 (19.23%) Azure AKS
19 15 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
19 15 (19.23%) Finance
20 14 (17.95%) PaaS
21 13 (16.67%) Containerisation

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (58.97%) Azure
2 45 (57.69%) AWS
3 20 (25.64%) Serverless
4 16 (20.51%) GitHub
5 15 (19.23%) Azure AKS
6 14 (17.95%) PaaS
7 12 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (14.10%) Amazon S3
8 11 (14.10%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (14.10%) Route 53
8 11 (14.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (10.26%) IaaS
11 7 (8.97%) Entra ID
11 7 (8.97%) GCP
12 5 (6.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) DNS
2 3 (3.85%) Firewall
2 3 (3.85%) IPv4
2 3 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.10%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (8.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (6.41%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.56%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.56%) MySQL
5 2 (2.56%) Power BI
5 2 (2.56%) Redis
6 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.54%) Bitbucket
2 9 (11.54%) JIRA
2 9 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
2 9 (11.54%) Subversion
3 7 (8.97%) Git
4 4 (5.13%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.56%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.56%) GitLab
6 1 (1.28%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (24.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 15 (19.23%) Finance
4 7 (8.97%) Law
5 5 (6.41%) Banking
5 5 (6.41%) Retail
6 2 (2.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.69%) SAML
2 5 (6.41%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.41%) Kafka
3 2 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (1.28%) .NET
4 1 (1.28%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (14.10%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (14.10%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (11.54%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (6.41%) Blog
4 5 (6.41%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.56%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.28%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (26.92%) Linux
2 12 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.56%) VMS
4 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 47 (60.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (53.85%) DevOps
4 35 (44.87%) CI/CD
5 21 (26.92%) Configuration Management
6 17 (21.79%) Agile
7 16 (20.51%) Innovative Thinking
8 13 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 13 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
9 12 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
9 12 (15.38%) Software Testing
10 11 (14.10%) Migration
10 11 (14.10%) Test Automation
11 10 (12.82%) Data Migration
11 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure Management
12 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (8.97%) Fintech
14 6 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
14 6 (7.69%) Security Operations
14 6 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.00%) Python
2 24 (30.77%) Java
3 17 (21.79%) PowerShell
4 11 (14.10%) Perl
4 11 (14.10%) SQL
5 10 (12.82%) Bash
6 8 (10.26%) Go
7 2 (2.56%) Bicep
7 2 (2.56%) C#
8 1 (1.28%) C
8 1 (1.28%) Groovy
8 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 5 (6.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 38 (48.72%) Docker
2 7 (8.97%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (83.33%) Terraform
2 50 (64.10%) Kubernetes
3 26 (33.33%) Ansible
4 17 (21.79%) Puppet
5 16 (20.51%) Progress Chef
5 16 (20.51%) Salt
6 10 (12.82%) Packer
7 5 (6.41%) Grafana
7 5 (6.41%) Prometheus
8 4 (5.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.54%) Atlassian
3 5 (6.41%) Google
4 1 (1.28%) SaltStack