Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £608 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £623 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £608 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +21.50% +25.00% -33.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 857 286 413
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.06% 93.46% 93.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 165 274
10th Percentile £359 £286 £250
25th Percentile £432 £363 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £464
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.96% -5.36%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £550
90th Percentile £640 £647 £629
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 40 33
10th Percentile £14.26 - £15.35
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £16.32
Median hourly rate £18.32 £15.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.13% -32.22% +37.20%
75th Percentile £39.63 £24.66 £28.75
90th Percentile £40.45 £67.75 £30.00
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £27.63 £54.88
% change year-on-year +89.74% -49.65% +9.75%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 19 July 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes - 2 £615 - 1
Cloud Platform Engineer
South East

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Cortex
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike