Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Cloud Platform Engineer
Dorset > Bournemouth

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Bournemouth is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 3.45% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £394 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £431 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median daily rate £413 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bournemouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bournemouth. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Bournemouth with a recognized job title 84 43 56
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.55% 91.49% 94.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 20 43
10th Percentile £300 £146 £175
25th Percentile £394 £203 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £315 £450
Median % change year-on-year +51.19% -30.00% +16.13%
75th Percentile £688 £500 £506
90th Percentile - £678 £690
Dorset median daily rate £550 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +18.92% -5.13% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 5
10th Percentile £16.80 - -
25th Percentile £20.46 £15.25 £14.41
Median hourly rate £24.75 £15.50 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +59.68% -0.77% +0.02%
75th Percentile £27.25 £15.75 -
90th Percentile - - £21.36
Dorset median hourly rate £57.82 £15.50 £15.62
% change year-on-year +273.03% -0.77% -72.35%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in Bournemouth.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in Bournemouth

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Cloud Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bournemouth region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Claude Code
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Claude Code
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
21 Cloud Platform Engineer jobs in the South West