Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 569 791
Rank change year-on-year +150 +222 -295
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 81 53 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 62 35 82
10th Percentile £67,750 £56,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,840 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £83,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -9.64% +27.69%
75th Percentile £100,938 £92,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £103,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +33.33%

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 22,292 32,057 66,231
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 95.11% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,650 23,651 34,463
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,469 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +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 16 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 16 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 +65 8 £90,000 +46.34%
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 16 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 81 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 69 (85.19%) Terraform
3 52 (64.20%) Kubernetes
4 50 (61.73%) Azure
5 47 (58.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (54.32%) DevOps
7 42 (51.85%) AWS
8 41 (50.62%) Docker
9 37 (45.68%) Python
10 33 (40.74%) CI/CD
11 30 (37.04%) Ansible
12 22 (27.16%) GitHub
12 22 (27.16%) Java
12 22 (27.16%) PowerShell
13 21 (25.93%) Serverless
14 20 (24.69%) Agile
14 20 (24.69%) PaaS
15 19 (23.46%) Configuration Management
15 19 (23.46%) Azure AKS
16 18 (22.22%) Finance
16 18 (22.22%) Linux
16 18 (22.22%) Jenkins
17 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
17 17 (20.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (19.75%) SQL
18 16 (19.75%) Bash
19 15 (18.52%) Social Skills
19 15 (18.52%) Identity Access Management
19 15 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
20 14 (17.28%) Innovative Thinking

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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 50 (61.73%) Azure
2 42 (51.85%) AWS
3 22 (27.16%) GitHub
4 21 (25.93%) Serverless
5 20 (24.69%) PaaS
6 19 (23.46%) Azure AKS
7 12 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (13.58%) Amazon S3
8 11 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (13.58%) Route 53
8 11 (13.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (12.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (12.35%) Entra ID
10 8 (9.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (9.88%) IaaS
11 7 (8.64%) GCP
12 4 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) DNS
2 3 (3.70%) Firewall
2 3 (3.70%) IPv4
2 3 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (13.58%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.17%) BigQuery
4 5 (6.17%) MariaDB
4 5 (6.17%) MySQL
4 5 (6.17%) Redis
5 2 (2.47%) Power BI
6 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.35%) Octopus Deploy
3 9 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 9 (11.11%) JIRA
3 9 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (11.11%) Subversion
4 7 (8.64%) Git
5 2 (2.47%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.47%) GitLab
6 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (22.22%) Finance
2 17 (20.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (18.52%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.64%) Law
5 5 (6.17%) Banking
5 5 (6.17%) Retail
6 2 (2.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (9.88%) SAML
3 5 (6.17%) Kafka
4 2 (2.47%) REST
5 1 (1.23%) .NET
5 1 (1.23%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (6.17%) Blog
3 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.17%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.23%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.23%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.22%) Linux
2 10 (12.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.47%) VMS
4 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 47 (58.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (54.32%) DevOps
4 33 (40.74%) CI/CD
5 20 (24.69%) Agile
6 19 (23.46%) Configuration Management
7 15 (18.52%) Identity Access Management
8 14 (17.28%) Innovative Thinking
9 13 (16.05%) Containerisation
9 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure Automation
10 12 (14.81%) Migration
11 10 (12.35%) Data Migration
11 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Management
11 10 (12.35%) Software Testing
12 9 (11.11%) Test Automation
13 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 7 (8.64%) Design Patterns
14 7 (8.64%) Fintech
14 7 (8.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 6 (7.41%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 37 (45.68%) Python
2 22 (27.16%) Java
2 22 (27.16%) PowerShell
3 16 (19.75%) Bash
3 16 (19.75%) SQL
4 9 (11.11%) Perl
5 8 (9.88%) Go
6 2 (2.47%) Bicep
6 2 (2.47%) C#
7 1 (1.23%) C
7 1 (1.23%) Groovy
7 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (7.41%) AWS Certification
1 6 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 5 (6.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 41 (50.62%) Docker
2 10 (12.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (85.19%) Terraform
2 52 (64.20%) Kubernetes
3 30 (37.04%) Ansible
4 14 (17.28%) Progress Chef
4 14 (17.28%) Puppet
4 14 (17.28%) Salt
5 10 (12.35%) Packer
6 7 (8.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (6.17%) Grafana
7 5 (6.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 5 (6.17%) Google