Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > North of England

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 201 222
Rank change year-on-year +25 +21 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 9 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.19% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.29% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 17
10th Percentile £508 £512 -
25th Percentile £513 £563 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £594 £625
90th Percentile £565 - £700
England median daily rate £538 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -8.51% +2.17% +6.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,370 5,536 6,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.30% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,742 3,911 5,115
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £385 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £684 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 160 284
10th Percentile £11.01 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.76 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +70.11% +4.63%
75th Percentile £46.00 £50.72 £28.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.07 £51.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the North of England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the North of England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
Yorkshire +16 5 £525 -8.70% 3
North West +24 4 £550 -5.38% 5
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 North of England region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (33.33%) Go
4 3 (33.33%) DynamoDB
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (33.33%) Ansible
4 3 (33.33%) Docker
4 3 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (33.33%) Git
4 3 (33.33%) Bash
4 3 (33.33%) Splunk
4 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
4 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (33.33%) HP Fortify
4 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD

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

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (22.22%) Datadog
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) Go
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Java
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) HP Fortify
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk