Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in Central London

Cloud Platform Engineer
London > Central London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in Central London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary 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 148 181 243
Rank change year-on-year +33 +62 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 12 7 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.47% 0.19% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.19% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 2
10th Percentile £76,250 £72,000 £64,775
25th Percentile £78,125 £78,750 £72,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £85,750
Median % change year-on-year - +4.96% +10.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £98,313
90th Percentile £103,750 £99,000 £105,325
London median annual salary £90,000 £76,250 £76,250
% change year-on-year +18.03% - -8.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 2,305 3,595 5,095
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 95.16% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,829 4,254
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in Central London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in Central London.

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in Central London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in Central London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +37 12 £90,000 -2.70% 6
Cloud Platform Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Platform Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (91.67%) Azure
3 9 (75.00%) Terraform
4 8 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (66.67%) DevOps
5 7 (58.33%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
5 7 (58.33%) GitHub
5 7 (58.33%) PaaS
6 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (50.00%) Citrix
6 6 (50.00%) VMware
6 6 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (41.67%) VPN
7 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
8 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
8 4 (33.33%) Linux
8 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (25.00%) Pulumi
9 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
9 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
9 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) GitHub
3 7 (58.33%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (58.33%) PaaS
4 4 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (25.00%) AWS
5 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (25.00%) Copilot Studio
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (25.00%) Pulumi
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (16.67%) GCP
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (8.33%) Datadog
7 1 (8.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.33%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Financial Institution
1 3 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 3 (25.00%) Agile
7 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
7 3 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
8 2 (16.67%) Observability
8 2 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) Go
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) Ruby
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Consul
3 2 (16.67%) Packer
3 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) Puppet
4 1 (8.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Citrix
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (8.33%) Google