Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 350 432
Rank change year-on-year +30 +82 +102
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 33 41 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.25% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 33 52
10th Percentile £360 £405 £480
25th Percentile £414 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +2.39%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £803 £655 £724
England median daily rate £500 £543 £588
% change year-on-year -7.92% -7.57% +2.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -1 2 £413 -31.25% 9
South London +6 1 £550 -6.38%
West London - 1 £800 - 1
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (96.97%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (72.73%) DevOps
3 23 (69.70%) Terraform
3 23 (69.70%) CI/CD
4 20 (60.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (54.55%) AWS
6 17 (51.52%) Azure
7 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
8 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
8 14 (42.42%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (36.36%) Python
10 11 (33.33%) GitHub
11 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
12 9 (27.27%) Serverless
13 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
14 7 (21.21%) Docker
14 7 (21.21%) Firewall
14 7 (21.21%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (21.21%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (18.18%) Bicep
15 6 (18.18%) Linux
16 5 (15.15%) Cloud Security
16 5 (15.15%) Bash
16 5 (15.15%) GCP
16 5 (15.15%) GitLab
17 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
17 4 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
17 4 (12.12%) RBAC

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.03%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) AWS
2 17 (51.52%) Azure
3 14 (42.42%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (33.33%) GitHub
5 9 (27.27%) Serverless
6 7 (21.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (21.21%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (15.15%) GCP
9 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (12.12%) Azure AKS
9 4 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (9.09%) Azure Functions
11 2 (6.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
11 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
11 2 (6.06%) IaaS
11 2 (6.06%) PaaS
11 2 (6.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) CircleCI
3 2 (6.06%) Git
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 2 (6.06%) AWS SAM
2 2 (6.06%) Spring
3 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.03%) Keycloak
3 1 (3.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Unix
4 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (96.97%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (72.73%) DevOps
3 23 (69.70%) CI/CD
4 20 (60.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.15%) Cloud Security
7 4 (12.12%) API Management
7 4 (12.12%) Configuration Management
7 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
7 4 (12.12%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (12.12%) RBAC
8 3 (9.09%) Analytics
8 3 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (9.09%) Computer Science
8 3 (9.09%) Data Protection
8 3 (9.09%) Data Security
8 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (9.09%) Machine Learning
8 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Python
2 6 (18.18%) Bicep
3 5 (15.15%) Bash
4 4 (12.12%) Go
4 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.06%) Java
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.03%) OCP
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (69.70%) Terraform
2 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.12%) Ansible
4 2 (6.06%) FortiGate
4 2 (6.06%) Grafana
5 1 (3.03%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Dataiku
2 3 (9.09%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.03%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle