Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 504 594
Rank change year-on-year +41 +90 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 59 83 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 67 95
10th Percentile £400 £415 £477
25th Percentile £481 £461 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -10.64% +2.17%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £631
90th Percentile £726 £638 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £522 £588
% change year-on-year -4.21% -11.15% +6.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 26,916 39,591 54,569
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.78% 94.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,509 25,748 38,105
10th Percentile £296 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,043 2,669 1,523
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.30 £19.45
Median hourly rate £28.60 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -17.38% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.25 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.02 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% -5.88% +112.50%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England +53 49 £523 -2.65% 57
London +41 34 £525 -4.55% 23
Work from Home +44 29 £525 +0.96% 54
UK excluding London +26 13 £500 -4.21% 45
South East +45 6 £500 -6.98% 15
Midlands +20 5 £500 +33.33% 7
East Midlands - 5 £500 -
Scotland +1 4 £535 +13.83% 5

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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

1 56 (94.92%) Platform Engineering
2 38 (64.41%) Terraform
3 37 (62.71%) DevOps
4 36 (61.02%) AWS
5 33 (55.93%) Azure
6 31 (52.54%) CI/CD
7 28 (47.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (47.46%) Python
8 23 (38.98%) Kubernetes
8 23 (38.98%) Jenkins
9 21 (35.59%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (33.90%) GitHub
11 17 (28.81%) Linux
12 16 (27.12%) PowerShell
12 16 (27.12%) Ansible
12 16 (27.12%) Serverless
13 15 (25.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (23.73%) Git
15 13 (22.03%) Finance
15 13 (22.03%) Bash
15 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
15 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
16 12 (20.34%) High Availability
17 11 (18.64%) Docker
17 11 (18.64%) Firewall
17 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
17 11 (18.64%) Configuration Management
17 11 (18.64%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
17 11 (18.64%) GitHub Actions

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.69%) Camunda
2 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (61.02%) AWS
2 33 (55.93%) Azure
3 21 (35.59%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (33.90%) GitHub
5 16 (27.12%) Serverless
6 15 (25.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (18.64%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (18.64%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (15.25%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (15.25%) Amazon S3
9 8 (13.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 8 (13.56%) GCP
10 7 (11.86%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (11.86%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (10.17%) OpenShift
12 5 (8.47%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (6.78%) AWS CodeBuild
13 4 (6.78%) AWS CodeDeploy
13 4 (6.78%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.64%) Firewall
2 2 (3.39%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) Big Data
2 4 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.39%) InfluxDB
4 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.69%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (38.98%) Jenkins
2 14 (23.73%) Git
3 6 (10.17%) GitLab
4 4 (6.78%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.39%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.69%) JIRA
6 1 (1.69%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (22.03%) Finance
2 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Banking
4 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.39%) AWS SAM
2 2 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.39%) Spring
3 1 (1.69%) .NET
3 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.69%) JSON
3 1 (1.69%) Kafka
3 1 (1.69%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.69%) Node.js
3 1 (1.69%) React
3 1 (1.69%) RESTful
3 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.17%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.81%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Ubuntu
3 8 (13.56%) Windows
4 7 (11.86%) Windows Server
5 5 (8.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (94.92%) Platform Engineering
2 37 (62.71%) DevOps
3 31 (52.54%) CI/CD
4 28 (47.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
6 12 (20.34%) High Availability
7 11 (18.64%) Configuration Management
7 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.56%) Agile
8 8 (13.56%) Continuous Delivery
8 8 (13.56%) Open Source
9 7 (11.86%) Customer-Centric Approach
9 7 (11.86%) Customer-Centricity
9 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (11.86%) Server Building
9 7 (11.86%) Software Delivery
10 6 (10.17%) Mentoring
10 6 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (10.17%) Test Automation
11 5 (8.47%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 28 (47.46%) Python
2 16 (27.12%) PowerShell
3 13 (22.03%) Bash
4 8 (13.56%) Bicep
5 6 (10.17%) Go
6 4 (6.78%) Groovy
6 4 (6.78%) Java
7 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.08%) SQL
8 1 (1.69%) C#
8 1 (1.69%) Scala
8 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.47%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.69%) OCP
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.69%) GDPR
1 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (64.41%) Terraform
2 23 (38.98%) Kubernetes
3 16 (27.12%) Ansible
4 5 (8.47%) Grafana
5 3 (5.08%) Kibana
6 2 (3.39%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.69%) Argo
7 1 (1.69%) Consul
7 1 (1.69%) logstash
7 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.69%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.95%) Databricks
3 6 (10.17%) Google
4 3 (5.08%) Dataiku
5 2 (3.39%) Imperva
6 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.69%) SAP
6 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.69%) Splunk