Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Cloud Platform Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.79% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £447 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £520 - -
90th Percentile £551 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £460 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 952 523 346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 91.59% 86.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 348 187
10th Percentile £365 £289 £375
25th Percentile £425 £375 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £473 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -12.09% -8.50%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £594
90th Percentile £675 £608 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £501 £469 £525
% change year-on-year +6.77% -10.67% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 5 6
10th Percentile - £15.55 £15.88
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.10 £20.13
Median hourly rate £32.40 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.95% -13.31% +7.69%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.50 £21.88
90th Percentile - £18.51 £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.40 £18.21 £21.00
% change year-on-year +77.95% -13.31% +5.00%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in Sheffield over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in Sheffield

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 Sheffield region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Bicep
4 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) DNS
4 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (37.50%) Packer
4 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (37.50%) RBAC
4 3 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (25.00%) GitOps
5 2 (25.00%) Google
5 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (25.00%) Observability

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Run
3 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Intranet
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) RBAC
5 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (25.00%) GitOps
5 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Runbook
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Change Management
6 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bicep
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Go
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Packer
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft