Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in England is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 560 640
Rank change year-on-year +75 +80 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 63 96 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.20% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 80 113
10th Percentile £423 £481 £451
25th Percentile £481 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +2.17% +6.48%
75th Percentile £598 £650 £635
90th Percentile £645 £711 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
London +91 40 £575 -4.17% 12
North of England +20 9 £550 -4.35% 8
South East +9 8 £538 -8.51% 2
Yorkshire +17 5 £525 -8.70% 3
North West +23 4 £550 -5.38% 5
West Midlands - 4 £375 - 2
Midlands - 4 £375 - 4
South West +21 1 £500 -13.04% 2
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (95.24%) Platform Engineering
2 48 (76.19%) Terraform
3 36 (57.14%) AWS
4 33 (52.38%) DevOps
5 30 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (44.44%) CI/CD
7 27 (42.86%) Azure
8 26 (41.27%) Python
9 21 (33.33%) Kubernetes
10 18 (28.57%) Docker
10 18 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (28.57%) Git
11 17 (26.98%) Bash
11 17 (26.98%) Ansible
12 14 (22.22%) SC Cleared
12 14 (22.22%) Security Cleared
12 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
13 13 (20.63%) Serverless
13 13 (20.63%) Linux
14 12 (19.05%) Agile
14 12 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (19.05%) Containerisation
15 11 (17.46%) GCP
15 11 (17.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (17.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (15.87%) DNS
17 9 (14.29%) Go
17 9 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (14.29%) DevSecOps
18 8 (12.70%) Datadog

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (6.35%) nginx
2 2 (3.17%) Apache
2 2 (3.17%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (3.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (57.14%) AWS
2 27 (42.86%) Azure
3 18 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (20.63%) Serverless
5 12 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (17.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (17.46%) GCP
6 11 (17.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (12.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (12.70%) Datadog
8 8 (12.70%) PaaS
9 7 (11.11%) IaaS
10 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
11 5 (7.94%) AWS CloudTrail
11 5 (7.94%) GitHub
12 4 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (6.35%) Azure AKS
12 4 (6.35%) Entra ID
12 4 (6.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.87%) DNS
2 7 (11.11%) Firewall
3 4 (6.35%) IPv4
4 3 (4.76%) VPN
5 2 (3.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.17%) MySQL
3 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.59%) Bigtable
4 1 (1.59%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.59%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.59%) CouchDB
4 1 (1.59%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (28.57%) Git
2 8 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.52%) GitLab
4 4 (6.35%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.17%) JIRA
6 1 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.59%) GoCD
6 1 (1.59%) Snyk
6 1 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Finance
2 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.17%) Billing
5 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) YAML
2 3 (4.76%) JSON
3 2 (3.17%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.17%) Django
3 2 (3.17%) HornetQ
3 2 (3.17%) Kafka
3 2 (3.17%) Node.js
3 2 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.17%) REST
3 2 (3.17%) VCL
4 1 (1.59%) AWS SAM
4 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.59%) PKI
2 1 (1.59%) PropTech
2 1 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.63%) Linux
2 6 (9.52%) Debian
3 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.17%) Windows
5 1 (1.59%) Unix
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (95.24%) Platform Engineering
2 33 (52.38%) DevOps
3 30 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 12 (19.05%) Agile
5 12 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 9 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 7 (11.11%) Configuration Management
7 7 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.94%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (7.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (6.35%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (6.35%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (6.35%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (6.35%) Test Automation
10 3 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence
10 3 (4.76%) Performance Analysis
10 3 (4.76%) Scrum
10 3 (4.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.27%) Python
2 17 (26.98%) Bash
3 9 (14.29%) Go
4 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.11%) SQL
6 6 (9.52%) Java
7 5 (7.94%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.76%) Ruby
9 2 (3.17%) Bicep
9 2 (3.17%) C
9 2 (3.17%) C++
9 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.17%) Rust
10 1 (1.59%) Groovy
10 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 14 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.17%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 18 (28.57%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (3.17%) Varnish
4 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (76.19%) Terraform
2 21 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 17 (26.98%) Ansible
4 6 (9.52%) Grafana
5 5 (7.94%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.76%) Consul
6 3 (4.76%) HP Fortify
6 3 (4.76%) Packer
7 2 (3.17%) Argo
7 2 (3.17%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.59%) Istio
8 1 (1.59%) Puppet
8 1 (1.59%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.59%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 4 (6.35%) Splunk
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.76%) VMware
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco
4 2 (3.17%) Databricks
4 2 (3.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.17%) Google
4 2 (3.17%) New Relic
5 1 (1.59%) BMC
5 1 (1.59%) Remedy
5 1 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.59%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.59%) webMethods