Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Cloud Platform Engineer
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Nottingham is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
2 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 0.85% 0.76% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £425 £500 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Nottingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Nottingham. 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 Nottingham with a recognized job title 306 116 113
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.93% 88.55% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 63 66
10th Percentile £278 £195 £205
25th Percentile £413 £388 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% -6.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £556 £569
90th Percentile £650 £623 £614
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £488 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +4.28% -6.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 16
10th Percentile £12.79 £11.44 £12.56
25th Percentile £13.51 £15.12 £12.75
Median hourly rate £16.35 £17.87 £13.77
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +29.77% -31.15%
75th Percentile £18.31 £21.91 £14.63
90th Percentile £19.13 £25.15 £15.38
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £17.87 £14.00
% change year-on-year -8.51% +27.64% -34.93%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

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

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham

For the 6 months to 2 August 2026, 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 Nottingham region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 1 (33.33%) VMware

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
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