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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 366 414
Rank change year-on-year +44 +48 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 14 33 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.17% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 29 42
10th Percentile £463 £450 £500
25th Percentile £491 £465 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -10.64% +6.82%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £600
90th Percentile £559 £556 £611
UK median daily rate £513 £528 £588
% change year-on-year -2.84% -10.21% +2.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
South East +44 6 £500 -6.98% 10
Midlands +24 6 £488 +30.00% 5
East Midlands - 6 £488 -
Scotland +5 4 £535 +13.83% 4
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 1 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 11 (78.57%) Python
3 10 (71.43%) Jenkins
3 10 (71.43%) DevOps
4 9 (64.29%) Azure
5 8 (57.14%) High Availability
5 8 (57.14%) Ansible
5 8 (57.14%) Linux
5 8 (57.14%) Git
5 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
5 8 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (50.00%) Ubuntu
7 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
7 6 (42.86%) Terraform
7 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
7 6 (42.86%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
8 5 (35.71%) Server Building
8 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
8 5 (35.71%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 5 (35.71%) Databricks
8 5 (35.71%) Serverless
8 5 (35.71%) Customer-Centricity
8 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (35.71%) Windows
8 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
8 5 (35.71%) Finance
8 5 (35.71%) GitHub

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 9 (64.29%) Azure
3 8 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
4 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (35.71%) GitHub
4 5 (35.71%) Serverless
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (21.43%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (21.43%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 3 (21.43%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (21.43%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (21.43%) Route 53
7 2 (14.29%) PaaS
7 2 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Big Data
2 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) InfluxDB
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 8 (57.14%) Git
3 2 (14.29%) Artifactory
3 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 5 (35.71%) Windows
3 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (71.43%) DevOps
3 8 (57.14%) High Availability
4 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 6 (42.86%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
5 5 (35.71%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 5 (35.71%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (35.71%) Open Source
5 5 (35.71%) Server Building
6 4 (28.57%) Agile
6 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) Kanban
7 3 (21.43%) Scrum
7 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
8 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
8 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 5 (35.71%) Bash
4 3 (21.43%) Bicep
4 3 (21.43%) Groovy
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Ansible
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 2 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Databricks
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Imperva