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 £533, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 316 347
Rank change year-on-year +23 +31 +136
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 22 25 83
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.19% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.20% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 79
10th Percentile £456 £440 £524
25th Percentile £500 £453 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -15.00% +0.84%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £650
90th Percentile £650 £588 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% -

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 9,509 12,350 21,193
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.55% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,318 8,294 14,941
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.40%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 385 506
10th Percentile £12.77 £16.64 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £27.84 £24.81
Median hourly rate £34.48 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £66.56
90th Percentile £70.81 £75.00 £78.46
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 20 (90.91%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (72.73%) Azure
2 16 (72.73%) AWS
3 15 (68.18%) DevOps
4 14 (63.64%) Terraform
5 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
5 13 (59.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (54.55%) Python
7 9 (40.91%) Docker
7 9 (40.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
7 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
7 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
8 8 (36.36%) GitHub
8 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
8 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
9 7 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
9 7 (31.82%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (27.27%) Bash
10 6 (27.27%) GCP
11 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
11 5 (22.73%) Google
11 5 (22.73%) Linux
11 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (18.18%) SQL
12 4 (18.18%) Migration
12 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
12 4 (18.18%) Degree

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 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
1 1 (4.55%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Magento
1 2 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (9.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) AWS
1 16 (72.73%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (36.36%) GitHub
4 7 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (31.82%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (27.27%) GCP
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Batch
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (9.09%) BigCommerce
7 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (9.09%) Cloudflare
7 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
7 2 (9.09%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (9.09%) Serverless
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) JSON
2 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (68.18%) DevOps
3 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 13 (59.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
5 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
6 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
7 4 (18.18%) Migration
8 3 (13.64%) Agile
8 3 (13.64%) Analytics
8 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
8 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
8 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
8 3 (13.64%) Data Transformation
8 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (13.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
3 6 (27.27%) Bash
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
5 3 (13.64%) Bicep
5 3 (13.64%) Java
6 2 (9.09%) Scala
7 1 (4.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) GDPR
1 3 (13.64%) NIST
2 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Terraform
2 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (18.18%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) Argo
4 1 (4.55%) Consul
4 1 (4.55%) logstash
4 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) Adobe
3 2 (9.09%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk
3 2 (9.09%) WooCommerce
4 1 (4.55%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle