Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 688 623 750
Rank change year-on-year -65 +127 -283
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 72 128 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.24% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 53 109 70
10th Percentile - £51,500 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +15.75% +26.32%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £90,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England -5 38 £60,000 -14.29% 9
North West -10 20 £60,000 -15.79% 6
Midlands +15 19 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Yorkshire +51 17 £60,000 -13.60% 3
West Midlands +16 11 £70,000 +3.70% 2
East Midlands -6 8 £60,000 -40.00% 2
South West -53 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
Wales +11 4 £53,750 - 2
South East +11 4 £68,750 -1.79% 3
North East -1 3 £80,000 +14.29%
Scotland -62 2 - -
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (98.61%) Platform Engineering
2 61 (84.72%) Azure
3 51 (70.83%) DevOps
4 49 (68.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (54.17%) CI/CD
6 34 (47.22%) PowerShell
7 31 (43.06%) Bash
7 31 (43.06%) Python
8 30 (41.67%) Terraform
9 29 (40.28%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (40.28%) AWS
10 26 (36.11%) Docker
10 26 (36.11%) Kubernetes
10 26 (36.11%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
12 23 (31.94%) Microsoft
13 22 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (29.17%) Continuous Integration
14 21 (29.17%) Bicep
14 21 (29.17%) Network Virtualisation
15 18 (25.00%) Containerisation
16 17 (23.61%) Agile
17 16 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
17 16 (22.22%) Cloud Security
18 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure Automation
18 15 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
18 15 (20.83%) Analytics
18 15 (20.83%) Ansible
19 14 (19.44%) Data Protection

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 61 (84.72%) Azure
2 29 (40.28%) AWS
3 26 (36.11%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (13.89%) Azure Key Vault
6 9 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 9 (12.50%) IaaS
6 9 (12.50%) PaaS
7 8 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (11.11%) Datadog
7 8 (11.11%) GCP
8 6 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (8.33%) Power Platform
8 6 (8.33%) Pulumi
9 4 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (5.56%) SaaS
10 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.17%) Serverless
11 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.06%) Network Security
2 5 (6.94%) Firewall
3 1 (1.39%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 9 (12.50%) MySQL
3 6 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (8.33%) MariaDB
3 6 (8.33%) Power BI
3 6 (8.33%) Redis
4 4 (5.56%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.39%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) Git
2 11 (15.28%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.78%) GitLab
5 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.39%) JIRA
5 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.67%) Retail
4 6 (8.33%) Finance
5 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Games
6 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.44%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.78%) AWS CDK
2 2 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.78%) REST
3 1 (1.39%) Loki
3 1 (1.39%) Middleware
3 1 (1.39%) Node.js
3 1 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (6.94%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) Digital Currency
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Windows
2 10 (13.89%) Linux
3 6 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.78%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (98.61%) Platform Engineering
2 51 (70.83%) DevOps
3 49 (68.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (54.17%) CI/CD
5 29 (40.28%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (29.17%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (29.17%) Network Virtualisation
8 18 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 17 (23.61%) Agile
10 16 (22.22%) Cloud Security
11 15 (20.83%) Analytics
11 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure Automation
12 14 (19.44%) Data Protection
12 14 (19.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (15.28%) Business Strategy
13 11 (15.28%) DataOps
14 10 (13.89%) Configuration Management
14 10 (13.89%) Creative Problem-Solving
15 9 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.22%) PowerShell
2 31 (43.06%) Bash
2 31 (43.06%) Python
3 21 (29.17%) Bicep
4 13 (18.06%) SQL
5 10 (13.89%) Go
5 10 (13.89%) Groovy
6 7 (9.72%) Java
6 7 (9.72%) Ruby
7 6 (8.33%) C#
7 6 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.33%) PHP
7 6 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (9.72%) Azure Certification
2 5 (6.94%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.39%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (36.11%) Docker
2 8 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (41.67%) Terraform
2 26 (36.11%) Kubernetes
3 15 (20.83%) Ansible
4 12 (16.67%) Grafana
5 11 (15.28%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.33%) Progress Chef
6 6 (8.33%) Puppet
7 3 (4.17%) Kibana
8 2 (2.78%) logstash
8 2 (2.78%) Rundeck
9 1 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.39%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (31.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.11%) New Relic
3 7 (9.72%) Google
4 6 (8.33%) SaltStack
5 4 (5.56%) Databricks
5 4 (5.56%) Splunk
6 2 (2.78%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (2.78%) PagerDuty