Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £524, 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 275 314 405
Rank change year-on-year +39 +91 +48
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 29 31 72
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.22% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 67
10th Percentile £388 £428 £500
25th Percentile £483 £453 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% -13.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £644
90th Percentile £613 £620 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £528 £588
% change year-on-year -2.84% -10.21% +2.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Platform Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Platform Engineer.

Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (96.55%) Platform Engineering
2 20 (68.97%) Terraform
2 20 (68.97%) AWS
3 19 (65.52%) DevOps
4 18 (62.07%) Python
5 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
6 16 (55.17%) Azure
7 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
8 14 (48.28%) Jenkins
9 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (41.38%) GitHub
11 11 (37.93%) Ansible
11 11 (37.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (34.48%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (34.48%) Bash
12 10 (34.48%) Linux
13 9 (31.03%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (31.03%) Docker
14 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
14 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
14 8 (27.59%) Git
14 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
14 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (27.59%) Serverless
15 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
15 7 (24.14%) Configuration Management
15 7 (24.14%) Firewall
16 6 (20.69%) Ubuntu
16 6 (20.69%) High Availability
16 6 (20.69%) AWS Lambda

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.45%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) AWS
2 16 (55.17%) Azure
3 12 (41.38%) GitHub
4 11 (37.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (34.48%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (31.03%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (27.59%) Serverless
8 6 (20.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 6 (20.69%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
11 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (10.34%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (10.34%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 3 (10.34%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (10.34%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (10.34%) GCP
11 3 (10.34%) OpenShift
11 3 (10.34%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.34%) Big Data
2 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) InfluxDB
3 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) SAP HANA
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (48.28%) Jenkins
2 8 (27.59%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) Artifactory
4 3 (10.34%) GitLab
5 2 (6.90%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) AWS CDK
2 2 (6.90%) AWS SAM
2 2 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Linux
2 6 (20.69%) Ubuntu
3 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (10.34%) Windows
4 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (96.55%) Platform Engineering
2 19 (65.52%) DevOps
3 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
4 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
5 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (24.14%) Configuration Management
7 6 (20.69%) High Availability
8 5 (17.24%) Agile
8 5 (17.24%) Software Delivery
9 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
9 4 (13.79%) Open Source
10 3 (10.34%) Cloud Security
10 3 (10.34%) Continuous Delivery
10 3 (10.34%) Cost Optimisation
10 3 (10.34%) Customer-Centric Approach
10 3 (10.34%) Customer-Centricity
10 3 (10.34%) RBAC
10 3 (10.34%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) Bash
3 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
4 5 (17.24%) Bicep
4 5 (17.24%) Go
5 3 (10.34%) Groovy
6 2 (6.90%) Java
6 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.90%) SQL
7 1 (3.45%) C#
7 1 (3.45%) Scala
7 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.34%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 20 (68.97%) Terraform
2 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
3 11 (37.93%) Ansible
4 5 (17.24%) Grafana
5 3 (10.34%) Kibana
6 1 (3.45%) Argo
6 1 (3.45%) Consul
6 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
6 1 (3.45%) logstash
6 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) Imperva
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk