Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 363 389
Rank change year-on-year +45 +26 +143
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 32 41 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.25% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 75
10th Percentile £398 £361 £477
25th Percentile £480 £425 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £641 £600 £650
90th Percentile £723 £645 £665
England median daily rate £523 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.33% -12.50% +4.35%

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 11,759 16,474 23,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.77% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,963 11,827 17,372
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £676 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 321 274
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.50 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.63 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +3 2 - - 9
West London +16 1 £800 +100.00% 1
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 26 (81.25%) Terraform
3 23 (71.88%) DevOps
4 22 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (59.38%) Azure
5 19 (59.38%) AWS
5 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
6 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
7 12 (37.50%) Python
8 11 (34.38%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (31.25%) GitHub
10 9 (28.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (28.13%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (25.00%) Docker
11 8 (25.00%) GCP
11 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
12 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
12 7 (21.88%) Bash
12 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
12 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
13 6 (18.75%) Cloud Native
13 6 (18.75%) Serverless
13 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
13 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
13 6 (18.75%) Agile
14 5 (15.63%) GitLab
14 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Automation
14 5 (15.63%) Cloud Security
14 5 (15.63%) Social Skills

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 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Magento
1 1 (3.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) AWS
1 19 (59.38%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (31.25%) GitHub
4 9 (28.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (28.13%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (25.00%) GCP
6 6 (18.75%) Serverless
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
8 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
9 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Batch
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 2 (6.25%) IaaS
10 1 (3.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.63%) GitLab
3 3 (9.38%) Git
4 2 (6.25%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.13%) git-flow
5 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) AWS CDK
1 2 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.13%) Keycloak
2 1 (3.13%) Node.js
2 1 (3.13%) React
2 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 23 (71.88%) DevOps
3 22 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
6 6 (18.75%) Agile
6 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (15.63%) Cloud Security
7 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (12.50%) Cost Management
8 4 (12.50%) Scrum
9 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (9.38%) Microservices
9 3 (9.38%) Software Delivery
9 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
10 2 (6.25%) API Management
10 2 (6.25%) Cost Optimisation
10 2 (6.25%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) Bash
2 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.50%) Bicep
3 4 (12.50%) Go
4 3 (9.38%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) Korn
5 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) OCP
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (81.25%) Terraform
2 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.13%) Grafana
4 1 (3.13%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Adobe
3 1 (3.13%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) Dataiku
3 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.13%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) WooCommerce