Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 125 148
Rank change year-on-year +1 +23 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 3 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.094% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.10% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - £505
25th Percentile £310 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £600 £688
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -12.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £330 - £875
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £320 £600 £688
% change year-on-year -46.67% -12.73% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

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

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,639 1,992 2,786
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 93.92% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,239 1,927
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 13
10th Percentile £16.96 £17.25 £16.69
25th Percentile £22.88 £22.84 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.15 £48.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% +33.33% -7.10%
75th Percentile £50.25 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £70.21 £137.50 £65.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -19.57% -1.41% -8.39%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the City of London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 2025, Cloud Platform Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Go
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
11 Cloud Platform Engineer jobs in Central London