Cloud Platform Engineer Job Trends in Central London

Cloud Platform Engineer
London > Central London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in Central London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 175 166
Rank change year-on-year +44 -9 +92
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 14 9 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.55% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.30% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 5
10th Percentile £77,500 £64,375 £81,000
25th Percentile £78,125 £70,938 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -2.70%
75th Percentile £81,875 £95,000 -
90th Percentile £89,500 £96,250 £96,750
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,407 2,957 2,914
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 91.98% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,818 1,815 2,572
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies 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 14 January 2026. 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 +36 14 £80,000 -11.11% 7
Cloud Platform Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Cloud Platform Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 10 (71.43%) Firewall
2 10 (71.43%) VPN
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
3 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Terraform
4 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 2 (14.29%) Canary Deployment
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 2 (14.29%) CloudFront
4 2 (14.29%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) CloudFront
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Firewall
1 10 (71.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (14.29%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 2 (14.29%) Canary Deployment
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (14.29%) High Availability
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (14.29%) Observability
2 2 (14.29%) Secrets Management
2 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft