Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 94 101
Rank change year-on-year -26 +7 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 3 7 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.18% 0.49% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.55% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 13
10th Percentile £505 £381 £510
25th Percentile £513 £406 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £700
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -41.07% +33.33%
75th Percentile £600 £470 -
90th Percentile £615 £566 -
England median daily rate £525 £488 £576
% change year-on-year +7.69% -15.36% +4.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,549 1,280 1,902
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.46% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 740 1,248
10th Percentile £258 £232 £236
25th Percentile £378 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -3.41% +2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £648 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 54 33
10th Percentile £17.48 £15.22 £13.92
25th Percentile £19.85 £16.72 £17.22
Median hourly rate £25.04 £23.34 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +9.53% +11.63%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £41.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.37% +58.64%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
West Yorkshire -9 3 £550 +33.33% 10
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, Cloud Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Adobe
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) BigCommerce
3 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (33.33%) Magento
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Salesforce

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Magento
1 1 (33.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) BigCommerce
3 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) WooCommerce