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 14 July 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
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 363 380
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 +95
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 19 29 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 51
10th Percentile £402 £420 £506
25th Percentile £450 £453 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% +2.17%
75th Percentile - £539 £600
90th Percentile £575 £553 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £600
% change year-on-year -2.20% -14.79% +0.84%

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 13,455 19,153 21,967
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.33% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,300 11,519 15,082
10th Percentile £220 £213 £232
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,112 2,332 1,190
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.82 £13.49
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +6.67% +79.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.43 £75.99
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.75% -5.88% +65.50%

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 14 July 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 14 July 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
Midlands +10 11 £488 +30.00% 4
South East +45 8 £500 +8.11% 8
West Midlands +9 7 £463 +23.33% 2
East Midlands - 4 £500 - 2
Yorkshire -3 1 £500 - 3
North of England -5 1 £500 -9.09% 4
Scotland -17 1 - - 1
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 14 July 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 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (84.21%) DevOps
2 16 (84.21%) Platform Engineering
3 15 (78.95%) Jenkins
4 14 (73.68%) Linux
4 14 (73.68%) Python
5 12 (63.16%) Terraform
6 11 (57.89%) PowerShell
7 10 (52.63%) Configuration Management
7 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
8 9 (47.37%) Git
8 9 (47.37%) Docker
8 9 (47.37%) Azure
9 8 (42.11%) Amazon S3
9 8 (42.11%) Windows
10 7 (36.84%) SQL
10 7 (36.84%) Ansible
10 7 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
11 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
11 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
11 6 (31.58%) GitHub
11 6 (31.58%) Ubuntu
12 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
12 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
12 5 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (26.32%) Open Source
12 5 (26.32%) Finance
12 5 (26.32%) Big Data
12 5 (26.32%) High Availability

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 4 (21.05%) Confluence
2 3 (15.79%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (5.26%) Magento
2 1 (5.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (47.37%) Azure
3 8 (42.11%) Amazon S3
4 7 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (31.58%) GitHub
6 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (26.32%) AWS KMS
6 5 (26.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (21.05%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (15.79%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (15.79%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (15.79%) Route 53
8 3 (15.79%) Serverless
9 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) SMTP
2 3 (15.79%) IMAP
2 3 (15.79%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (10.53%) DNS
3 2 (10.53%) Firewall
3 2 (10.53%) FTP
3 2 (10.53%) HTTP
3 2 (10.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (26.32%) Big Data
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
2 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (78.95%) Jenkins
2 9 (47.37%) Git
3 4 (21.05%) JIRA
3 4 (21.05%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Kafka
1 3 (15.79%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
1 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) Windows
3 6 (31.58%) Ubuntu
4 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (21.05%) VMS
6 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) DevOps
1 16 (84.21%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 10 (52.63%) Configuration Management
3 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
4 5 (26.32%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (26.32%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 5 (26.32%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (26.32%) High Availability
4 5 (26.32%) Open Source
4 5 (26.32%) Server Building
5 4 (21.05%) Change Management
5 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Data Lineage
6 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (15.79%) Data Science
6 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) PowerShell
3 7 (36.84%) SQL
4 4 (21.05%) Groovy
4 4 (21.05%) Java
5 3 (15.79%) Scala
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) Bicep
6 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Certification
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Dovecot
2 3 (15.79%) Postfix
2 3 (15.79%) Squid
3 2 (10.53%) DFS Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) Terraform
2 7 (36.84%) Ansible
3 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
4 4 (21.05%) Grafana
4 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
5 3 (15.79%) Nessus
6 1 (5.26%) Consul
6 1 (5.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Databricks
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.79%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (5.26%) Adobe
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) WooCommerce