Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 464 470
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 +188
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 88 43 101
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.14% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.15% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 34 86
10th Percentile £433 £358 £456
25th Percentile £463 £402 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £576
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -16.38% +9.62%
75th Percentile £588 £542 £650
90th Percentile £692 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 28,233 28,165 35,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.89% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,092 17,437 24,751
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,705 974 1,399
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.34 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.42 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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 England.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies 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 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies 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 13 December 2025. 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 +18 52 £550 +10.00% 3
Midlands -12 23 £475 - 1
West Midlands - 23 £475 - 1
North of England -35 12 £525 +27.27% 7
Yorkshire -35 10 £523 +26.67% 7
South East -12 4 £550 +37.50% 2
North West -15 2 £525 +5.00%
South West - 1 £510 - 1
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 England region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 74 (84.09%) Terraform
3 64 (72.73%) AWS
4 60 (68.18%) CI/CD
5 58 (65.91%) DevOps
6 49 (55.68%) Python
7 48 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (47.73%) Security Cleared
9 40 (45.45%) Azure
10 39 (44.32%) SC Cleared
11 34 (38.64%) Jenkins
12 31 (35.23%) Docker
13 30 (34.09%) PowerShell
14 28 (31.82%) Amazon S3
14 28 (31.82%) Linux
15 27 (30.68%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (29.55%) Cloud Security
16 26 (29.55%) DNS
16 26 (29.55%) Firewall
16 26 (29.55%) Grafana
17 25 (28.41%) Kubernetes
17 25 (28.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
18 24 (27.27%) AWS KMS
18 24 (27.27%) Configuration Management
18 24 (27.27%) GitHub
19 23 (26.14%) Amazon ECS
19 23 (26.14%) Windows
20 22 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 22 (25.00%) Git

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (22.73%) Confluence
2 11 (12.50%) nginx
3 2 (2.27%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.14%) Apache
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (12.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 64 (72.73%) AWS
2 40 (45.45%) Azure
3 28 (31.82%) Amazon S3
4 27 (30.68%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (28.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (27.27%) AWS KMS
6 24 (27.27%) GitHub
7 23 (26.14%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (21.59%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (20.45%) Amazon ELB
10 18 (20.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (15.91%) Route 53
12 13 (14.77%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (11.36%) Serverless
15 8 (9.09%) Azure AKS
16 7 (7.95%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 26 (29.55%) DNS
1 26 (29.55%) Firewall
2 18 (20.45%) SMTP
3 17 (19.32%) FTP
3 17 (19.32%) HTTP
3 17 (19.32%) SSH
4 11 (12.50%) IMAP
4 11 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (5.68%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.27%) Redis
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.14%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.14%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.14%) MySQL
8 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (38.64%) Jenkins
2 22 (25.00%) Git
3 20 (22.73%) JIRA
4 18 (20.45%) Vagrant
5 3 (3.41%) GitLab
5 3 (3.41%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.27%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.14%) git-flow
7 1 (1.14%) MLflow
7 1 (1.14%) MSI
General
1 26 (29.55%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.36%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (5.68%) Banking
4 5 (5.68%) Finance
5 4 (4.55%) Publishing
6 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.50%) LDAP
2 7 (7.95%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.41%) Lambda Expressions
3 3 (3.41%) Node.js
4 2 (2.27%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.27%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.27%) React
4 2 (2.27%) REST
4 2 (2.27%) Swagger
5 1 (1.14%) .NET
5 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.14%) Kafka
5 1 (1.14%) Memcached
5 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.73%) Replication
2 10 (11.36%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.95%) NHS
4 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.41%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.41%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.14%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 28 (31.82%) Linux
2 23 (26.14%) Windows
3 21 (23.86%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (23.86%) VMS
4 10 (11.36%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.27%) Unix
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 60 (68.18%) CI/CD
3 58 (65.91%) DevOps
4 48 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (29.55%) Cloud Security
6 24 (27.27%) Configuration Management
7 18 (20.45%) Change Management
8 17 (19.32%) Patch Management
9 16 (18.18%) Observability
10 13 (14.77%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (13.64%) Containerisation
12 10 (11.36%) Migration
12 10 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Automation
14 8 (9.09%) Analytics
15 6 (6.82%) Agile
15 6 (6.82%) Software Engineering
15 6 (6.82%) Test Automation
16 5 (5.68%) AI
16 5 (5.68%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 49 (55.68%) Python
2 30 (34.09%) PowerShell
3 18 (20.45%) Groovy
4 14 (15.91%) SQL
5 11 (12.50%) Bash
5 11 (12.50%) Java
6 8 (9.09%) Bicep
6 8 (9.09%) Go
7 7 (7.95%) Perl
8 3 (3.41%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.27%) C#
9 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.14%) Korn
10 1 (1.14%) PHP
10 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (47.73%) Security Cleared
2 39 (44.32%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.91%) AWS Certification
4 13 (14.77%) Azure Certification
5 10 (11.36%) Degree
6 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.14%) CCNA
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.14%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) GDPR
2 3 (3.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.27%) NCSC
4 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (35.23%) Docker
2 17 (19.32%) DFS Replication
3 11 (12.50%) Dovecot
3 11 (12.50%) Postfix
3 11 (12.50%) Squid
4 9 (10.23%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (84.09%) Terraform
2 26 (29.55%) Grafana
3 25 (28.41%) Kubernetes
4 19 (21.59%) Prometheus
5 11 (12.50%) Nessus
6 10 (11.36%) Proxmox
7 5 (5.68%) Argo
7 5 (5.68%) Packer
8 4 (4.55%) Ansible
9 2 (2.27%) Istio
9 2 (2.27%) Puppet
10 1 (1.14%) Consul
10 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (20.45%) ServiceNow
2 11 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (7.95%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.82%) Splunk
5 5 (5.68%) Databricks
6 3 (3.41%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.41%) Google
7 2 (2.27%) Cisco
7 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.14%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.14%) Confluent
8 1 (1.14%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.14%) Foundry
8 1 (1.14%) IBM
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle
8 1 (1.14%) Red Hat