Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts 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 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 474 502
Rank change year-on-year +41 +28 +172
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 70 51 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.16% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 42 108
10th Percentile £401 £364 £494
25th Percentile £462 £406 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -14.58% +2.13%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £650
90th Percentile £706 £645 £696
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% -

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 25,466 30,983 42,910
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.90% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,521 20,498 30,243
10th Percentile £286 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 1,827 1,342
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%
75th Percentile £55.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

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 3 August 2025.

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 3 August 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 45 £550 +3.53% 16
Midlands +5 16 £475 +26.67% 3
West Midlands +5 13 £475 +26.67% 2
South East +29 7 £500 +25.00% 6
East Midlands - 3 £500 - 1
Yorkshire -12 1 £500 +21.21% 3
North of England -15 1 £500 +5.26% 6
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 England region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (95.71%) Platform Engineering
2 52 (74.29%) AWS
2 52 (74.29%) Terraform
3 45 (64.29%) DevOps
3 45 (64.29%) CI/CD
4 39 (55.71%) Azure
5 36 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (45.71%) Python
7 30 (42.86%) Kubernetes
8 26 (37.14%) Jenkins
9 25 (35.71%) Security Cleared
10 24 (34.29%) Docker
11 23 (32.86%) PowerShell
12 22 (31.43%) Linux
13 19 (27.14%) SC Cleared
14 18 (25.71%) GitHub
14 18 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (24.29%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (24.29%) Configuration Management
15 17 (24.29%) Containerisation
15 17 (24.29%) Cloud Security
16 16 (22.86%) Git
16 16 (22.86%) Amazon S3
17 15 (21.43%) Grafana
17 15 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
18 14 (20.00%) AWS KMS
18 14 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
18 14 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
18 14 (20.00%) Mentoring

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 9 (12.86%) Confluence
2 5 (7.14%) nginx
3 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.43%) Apache
4 1 (1.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.86%) Magento
2 2 (2.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (74.29%) AWS
2 39 (55.71%) Azure
3 18 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 18 (25.71%) GitHub
4 17 (24.29%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (22.86%) Amazon S3
6 15 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (20.00%) AWS KMS
8 12 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (17.14%) GCP
9 11 (15.71%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (14.29%) Serverless
11 9 (12.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (12.86%) Amazon ELB
11 9 (12.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (7.14%) Azure AKS
13 5 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.71%) Firewall
2 9 (12.86%) SMTP
3 7 (10.00%) DNS
3 7 (10.00%) FTP
3 7 (10.00%) HTTP
3 7 (10.00%) SSH
4 5 (7.14%) IMAP
4 5 (7.14%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.29%) Big Data
4 2 (2.86%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (37.14%) Jenkins
2 16 (22.86%) Git
3 9 (12.86%) JIRA
3 9 (12.86%) Vagrant
4 7 (10.00%) GitLab
5 2 (2.86%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.43%) git-flow
6 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.57%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.43%) Finance
4 6 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.71%) Banking
7 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.86%) Publishing
9 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.57%) AWS CDK
2 5 (7.14%) LDAP
3 3 (4.29%) ARM Templates
3 3 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.29%) Kafka
4 2 (2.86%) Spring
5 1 (1.43%) React
5 1 (1.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.00%) Replication
3 3 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.29%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (31.43%) Linux
2 14 (20.00%) Windows
3 9 (12.86%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (12.86%) VMS
4 6 (8.57%) Ubuntu
5 3 (4.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (95.71%) Platform Engineering
2 45 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 45 (64.29%) DevOps
3 36 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (24.29%) Cloud Security
4 17 (24.29%) Configuration Management
4 17 (24.29%) Containerisation
5 14 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 14 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (14.29%) Agile
7 9 (12.86%) Change Management
7 9 (12.86%) Observability
8 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (10.00%) Patch Management
10 6 (8.57%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (8.57%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (7.14%) High Availability
11 5 (7.14%) Incident Management
11 5 (7.14%) Migration
11 5 (7.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.71%) Python
2 23 (32.86%) PowerShell
3 12 (17.14%) SQL
4 11 (15.71%) Java
5 9 (12.86%) Groovy
6 8 (11.43%) Bash
6 8 (11.43%) Go
7 7 (10.00%) Bicep
8 4 (5.71%) Perl
9 3 (4.29%) Scala
10 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.43%) Korn
10 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 19 (27.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.43%) AWS Certification
4 7 (10.00%) Degree
5 4 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.43%) OCP
7 1 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.29%) GDPR
1 3 (4.29%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (34.29%) Docker
2 7 (10.00%) DFS Replication
3 5 (7.14%) Dovecot
3 5 (7.14%) Postfix
3 5 (7.14%) Squid
4 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (74.29%) Terraform
2 30 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 15 (21.43%) Grafana
4 10 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 8 (11.43%) Ansible
6 5 (7.14%) Nessus
7 3 (4.29%) Proxmox
8 2 (2.86%) Argo
8 2 (2.86%) Puppet
9 1 (1.43%) Consul
9 1 (1.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) ServiceNow
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.57%) Databricks
3 6 (8.57%) Google
4 5 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (2.86%) Adobe
5 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.86%) SAP
5 2 (2.86%) Splunk
5 2 (2.86%) WooCommerce
6 1 (1.43%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco
6 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.43%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle
6 1 (1.43%) Red Hat