Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Cloud Platform Engineer
South East > East Sussex

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in East Sussex is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 0.96% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - -
South East median daily rate £607 £476 £400
% change year-on-year +27.62% +19.00% -33.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East Sussex. 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 East Sussex with a recognized job title 97 68 68
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 61.82% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 38 42
10th Percentile £206 £160 £301
25th Percentile £313 £285 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £413 £423
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% -2.37% -23.18%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £588
90th Percentile £627 £680 £671
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 1
10th Percentile £15.48 - -
25th Percentile £16.23 £12.60 £51.25
Median hourly rate £16.83 £15.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -70.48% +191.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £16.73 £53.75
90th Percentile - £27.29 -
South East median hourly rate £48.81 £25.15 £58.49
% change year-on-year +94.08% -57.00% +13.22%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

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

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 East Sussex region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Hove - 1 £581 -
Brighton - 1 £581 -
Cloud Platform Engineer
South East

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex

For the 6 months to 3 October 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 East Sussex region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google