Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 741 776 1021
Rank change year-on-year +35 +245 -454
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 161 197 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.21% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 125 151 158
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £79,375 £91,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +15.75% +26.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +64 147 £75,000 +7.14% 29
Work from Home +17 80 £75,000 +8.00% 17
London +131 79 £80,000 +6.67% 11
UK excluding London -52 72 £60,000 -13.60% 20
North of England +8 38 £60,000 -14.29% 8
North West -2 20 £60,000 -15.79% 5
Midlands +1 19 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Yorkshire +61 17 £60,000 -13.60% 3
West Midlands +16 11 £70,000 +3.70% 2
East Midlands -9 8 £60,000 -40.00% 2
South West -50 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
Wales +6 4 £53,750 - 2
South East -4 4 £68,750 -1.79% 3
North East -3 3 £80,000 +14.29%
Scotland -69 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 160 (99.38%) Platform Engineering
2 117 (72.67%) Azure
3 105 (65.22%) Terraform
4 101 (62.73%) DevOps
5 100 (62.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 79 (49.07%) Kubernetes
7 77 (47.83%) AWS
8 75 (46.58%) CI/CD
9 72 (44.72%) Python
10 68 (42.24%) Docker
11 54 (33.54%) PowerShell
12 46 (28.57%) Bash
13 45 (27.95%) Microsoft
14 44 (27.33%) Azure DevOps
14 44 (27.33%) Social Skills
15 43 (26.71%) Ansible
16 37 (22.98%) Agile
17 36 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
17 36 (22.36%) Containerisation
18 34 (21.12%) SQL
19 32 (19.88%) PaaS
20 31 (19.25%) Java
21 30 (18.63%) Linux
21 30 (18.63%) Configuration Management
21 30 (18.63%) Jenkins
21 30 (18.63%) Azure AKS
22 28 (17.39%) Serverless
22 28 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
23 27 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
24 26 (16.15%) Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (6.21%) Confluence
2 2 (1.24%) SAS
3 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 117 (72.67%) Azure
2 77 (47.83%) AWS
3 44 (27.33%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (19.88%) PaaS
5 30 (18.63%) Azure AKS
6 28 (17.39%) Serverless
7 22 (13.66%) GitHub
7 22 (13.66%) IaaS
8 18 (11.18%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (10.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 17 (10.56%) GCP
10 14 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (8.07%) Amazon S3
11 13 (8.07%) Entra ID
11 13 (8.07%) Route 53
12 12 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (7.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (6.21%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (6.21%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.07%) Network Security
2 12 (7.45%) Firewall
3 7 (4.35%) IPv4
3 7 (4.35%) VPN
4 5 (3.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 13 (8.07%) MySQL
5 12 (7.45%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (6.21%) MariaDB
6 10 (6.21%) Redis
7 9 (5.59%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.59%) Power BI
8 4 (2.48%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.62%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (18.63%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.66%) Git
3 11 (6.83%) JIRA
4 9 (5.59%) Bitbucket
4 9 (5.59%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (5.59%) Subversion
5 7 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (3.73%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (2.48%) GitLab
8 3 (1.86%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.24%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.62%) MLflow
10 1 (0.62%) Vagrant
General
1 44 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.66%) Finance
3 18 (11.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.56%) Retail
5 7 (4.35%) Law
6 6 (3.73%) Banking
7 3 (1.86%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.24%) Legal
9 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Games
9 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.70%) ARM Templates
2 10 (6.21%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (4.35%) SAML
4 5 (3.11%) Kafka
5 4 (2.48%) REST
6 2 (1.24%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.24%) Loki
7 1 (0.62%) .NET
7 1 (0.62%) ADO
7 1 (0.62%) Middleware
7 1 (0.62%) Node.js
7 1 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.15%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.94%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (6.83%) Data Centre
4 10 (6.21%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.59%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.97%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.11%) Blog
8 4 (2.48%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.86%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.62%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.62%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.62%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.63%) Linux
2 15 (9.32%) Windows
3 13 (8.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.24%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.24%) VMS
6 1 (0.62%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (99.38%) Platform Engineering
2 101 (62.73%) DevOps
3 100 (62.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (46.58%) CI/CD
5 37 (22.98%) Agile
6 36 (22.36%) Containerisation
6 36 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (18.63%) Configuration Management
8 28 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
9 27 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (13.04%) Network Virtualisation
12 20 (12.42%) Cloud Security
12 20 (12.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (10.56%) Analytics
14 15 (9.32%) Innovative Thinking
14 15 (9.32%) Machine Learning
15 14 (8.70%) Data Protection
15 14 (8.70%) Migration
16 13 (8.07%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (44.72%) Python
2 54 (33.54%) PowerShell
3 46 (28.57%) Bash
4 34 (21.12%) SQL
5 31 (19.25%) Java
6 24 (14.91%) Bicep
7 19 (11.80%) Go
8 11 (6.83%) Groovy
9 10 (6.21%) Perl
10 9 (5.59%) C#
11 8 (4.97%) Ruby
12 7 (4.35%) JavaScript
12 7 (4.35%) TypeScript
13 6 (3.73%) PHP
14 1 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.07%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.21%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.97%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.97%) Degree
5 7 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.73%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.24%) GDPR
3 2 (1.24%) QA
4 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.62%) SEPA
System Software
1 68 (42.24%) Docker
2 14 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 105 (65.22%) Terraform
2 79 (49.07%) Kubernetes
3 43 (26.71%) Ansible
4 22 (13.66%) Progress Chef
4 22 (13.66%) Puppet
5 18 (11.18%) Grafana
6 17 (10.56%) Prometheus
7 16 (9.94%) Salt
8 12 (7.45%) Packer
9 6 (3.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.86%) Kibana
11 2 (1.24%) logstash
11 2 (1.24%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.62%) Consul
12 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 45 (27.95%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.07%) Google
3 9 (5.59%) Atlassian
4 8 (4.97%) New Relic
5 6 (3.73%) SaltStack
6 5 (3.11%) Databricks
7 4 (2.48%) Splunk
8 2 (1.24%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.24%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.24%) PagerDuty