Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 411 463
Rank change year-on-year +51 +52 -62
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 33 48 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.21% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 42 36
10th Percentile £450 £500 £413
25th Percentile £465 £516 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £646
90th Percentile £556 £611 £700
UK median daily rate £528 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -10.21% +2.17% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,264 22,670 29,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.17% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 15,896 20,739
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,165 1,484
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.45 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Scotland +40 12 £470 -9.53% 6
North of England +23 10 £550 -4.35% 9
South East +6 8 £538 -8.51% 2
North West +22 5 £550 -5.38% 5
Yorkshire +19 5 £525 -8.70% 2
Midlands - 4 £375 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £375 - 2
South West +10 1 £500 -13.04% 2
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (81.82%) Platform Engineering
2 25 (75.76%) AWS
3 24 (72.73%) DevOps
4 21 (63.64%) Terraform
5 18 (54.55%) Kubernetes
5 18 (54.55%) Python
6 16 (48.48%) Ansible
6 16 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (45.45%) Azure
8 14 (42.42%) Bash
9 13 (39.39%) Linux
10 12 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (36.36%) CI/CD
11 10 (30.30%) Docker
11 10 (30.30%) Agile
11 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
12 9 (27.27%) Snowflake
12 9 (27.27%) Amazon S3
12 9 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (24.24%) Git
13 8 (24.24%) Java
13 8 (24.24%) DNS
14 7 (21.21%) GitLab
14 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
14 7 (21.21%) Databricks
14 7 (21.21%) Serverless
14 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (21.21%) Datadog
14 7 (21.21%) GitOps

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 6 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.06%) Apache
2 2 (6.06%) nginx
3 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (75.76%) AWS
2 15 (45.45%) Azure
3 12 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 9 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (27.27%) Snowflake
5 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (21.21%) Datadog
5 7 (21.21%) Serverless
6 6 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (18.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 6 (18.18%) OpenShift
7 5 (15.15%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (15.15%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (12.12%) Route 53
9 3 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (9.09%) GitHub
9 3 (9.09%) IaaS
9 3 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) DNS
2 3 (9.09%) Firewall
3 2 (6.06%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.09%) InfluxDB
2 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Git
2 7 (21.21%) GitLab
2 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 6 (18.18%) Artifactory
4 4 (12.12%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.03%) JIRA
6 1 (3.03%) Snyk
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 5 (15.15%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (12.12%) YAML
4 2 (6.06%) Django
4 2 (6.06%) HornetQ
4 2 (6.06%) JSON
4 2 (6.06%) VCL
5 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 13 (39.39%) Linux
2 9 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (18.18%) Debian
3 6 (18.18%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.03%) Windows
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (72.73%) DevOps
3 16 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 10 (30.30%) Agile
6 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
6 7 (21.21%) GitOps
7 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 6 (18.18%) Data Engineering
7 6 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (18.18%) DataOps
7 6 (18.18%) MLOps
8 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
9 4 (12.12%) Observability
9 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (12.12%) Software Delivery
10 3 (9.09%) Cloud Operations
10 3 (9.09%) IT Strategy
10 3 (9.09%) Performance Analysis
10 3 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Python
2 14 (42.42%) Bash
3 8 (24.24%) Java
4 6 (18.18%) Scala
5 5 (15.15%) Groovy
5 5 (15.15%) Shell Script
6 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
7 3 (9.09%) Go
7 3 (9.09%) SQL
8 2 (6.06%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (6.06%) Varnish
4 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (63.64%) Terraform
2 18 (54.55%) Kubernetes
3 16 (48.48%) Ansible
4 6 (18.18%) Grafana
4 6 (18.18%) Kibana
5 3 (9.09%) HP Fortify
6 2 (6.06%) HAProxy
7 1 (3.03%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Databricks
2 6 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 3 (9.09%) Splunk
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) BMC
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.03%) Remedy
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) VMware