Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in Work from Home is £75,000 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 512 528 731
Rank change year-on-year +16 +203 -378
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 81 135 121
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.32% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.34% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 64 96 106
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +6.84% +36.84%
75th Percentile £96,000 £87,500 £92,813
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,500 39,912 66,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,881 28,336 41,924
10th Percentile £33,013 £36,733 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Platform Engineer.

Cloud Platform Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Cloud Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 65 (80.25%) Terraform
3 55 (67.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (67.90%) DevOps
4 53 (65.43%) Kubernetes
5 52 (64.20%) Azure
6 48 (59.26%) Python
7 45 (55.56%) AWS
8 44 (54.32%) Docker
9 41 (50.62%) CI/CD
10 32 (39.51%) Ansible
11 29 (35.80%) Java
12 26 (32.10%) Configuration Management
13 25 (30.86%) Agile
14 23 (28.40%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (27.16%) Serverless
15 22 (27.16%) Progress Chef
15 22 (27.16%) Puppet
16 21 (25.93%) Jenkins
16 21 (25.93%) Azure AKS
17 20 (24.69%) GitHub
17 20 (24.69%) PowerShell
17 20 (24.69%) Linux
18 18 (22.22%) SQL
18 18 (22.22%) Bash
19 17 (20.99%) Finance
19 17 (20.99%) Linux Command Line
20 16 (19.75%) Innovative Thinking
20 16 (19.75%) Salt
21 15 (18.52%) Go

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
Cloud Services
1 52 (64.20%) Azure
2 45 (55.56%) AWS
3 23 (28.40%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (27.16%) Serverless
5 21 (25.93%) Azure AKS
6 20 (24.69%) GitHub
7 14 (17.28%) PaaS
8 13 (16.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (13.58%) Amazon S3
10 11 (13.58%) Route 53
10 11 (13.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (12.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (12.35%) GCP
12 9 (11.11%) IaaS
13 8 (9.88%) Datadog
14 7 (8.64%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (8.64%) Entra ID
14 7 (8.64%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.35%) Firewall
2 5 (6.17%) DNS
2 5 (6.17%) IPv4
2 5 (6.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (13.58%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (11.11%) MySQL
4 8 (9.88%) MariaDB
4 8 (9.88%) MongoDB
4 8 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (9.88%) Redis
5 7 (8.64%) BigQuery
6 6 (7.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.35%) JIRA
3 9 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 9 (11.11%) Git
3 9 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (11.11%) Subversion
4 6 (7.41%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (4.94%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (3.70%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.23%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (20.99%) Finance
2 14 (17.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (17.28%) Retail
3 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.64%) Law
5 6 (7.41%) Banking
6 2 (2.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) ARM Templates
1 6 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (7.41%) SAML
2 5 (6.17%) Kafka
3 1 (1.23%) ADO
3 1 (1.23%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.23%) Middleware
3 1 (1.23%) Node.js
3 1 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.99%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (17.28%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (16.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (12.35%) Data Centre
5 9 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (9.88%) Product Ownership
7 5 (6.17%) Blog
8 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.47%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.23%) Blockchain
10 1 (1.23%) Digital Currency
10 1 (1.23%) Fixed Income
10 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.69%) Linux
2 12 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.41%) Windows
4 5 (6.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.23%) CentOS
5 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 55 (67.90%) DevOps
2 55 (67.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (50.62%) CI/CD
4 26 (32.10%) Configuration Management
5 25 (30.86%) Agile
6 16 (19.75%) Innovative Thinking
7 15 (18.52%) Containerisation
8 13 (16.05%) Software Testing
9 12 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
9 12 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
9 12 (14.81%) Migration
9 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (13.58%) Analytics
10 11 (13.58%) Machine Learning
10 11 (13.58%) Test Automation
11 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Management
12 9 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (11.11%) Data Migration
13 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (59.26%) Python
2 29 (35.80%) Java
3 20 (24.69%) PowerShell
4 18 (22.22%) Bash
4 18 (22.22%) SQL
5 15 (18.52%) Go
6 11 (13.58%) Perl
7 9 (11.11%) Groovy
8 8 (9.88%) C#
9 7 (8.64%) TypeScript
10 6 (7.41%) JavaScript
10 6 (7.41%) PHP
10 6 (7.41%) Ruby
11 3 (3.70%) Bicep
12 1 (1.23%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.64%) AWS Certification
3 7 (8.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (7.41%) Degree
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.47%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (54.32%) Docker
2 8 (9.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (80.25%) Terraform
2 53 (65.43%) Kubernetes
3 32 (39.51%) Ansible
4 22 (27.16%) Progress Chef
4 22 (27.16%) Puppet
5 16 (19.75%) Salt
6 13 (16.05%) Grafana
6 13 (16.05%) Prometheus
7 10 (12.35%) Packer
8 2 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.47%) Rundeck
9 1 (1.23%) Consul
9 1 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 14 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 8 (9.88%) Google
3 8 (9.88%) New Relic
4 6 (7.41%) SaltStack
5 4 (4.94%) Databricks
6 2 (2.47%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (2.47%) PagerDuty
6 2 (2.47%) Splunk