Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 173 230
Rank change year-on-year +45 +57 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 13 7 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.64% 0.21% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.22% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 1
10th Percentile £72,875 £76,500 -
25th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £59,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +46.34% -23.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £103,375 £99,000 -
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +46.34% -23.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,884 3,204 4,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 96.07% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,437 2,534 3,707
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year - -1.69% +1.72%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the City of London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the City of London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the City of London

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 16 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 City of London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) Azure
3 10 (76.92%) Terraform
4 9 (69.23%) DevOps
5 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
6 7 (53.85%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (53.85%) GitHub
6 7 (53.85%) PaaS
7 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
7 6 (46.15%) Citrix
7 6 (46.15%) VMware
7 6 (46.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (46.15%) Regulatory Compliance
7 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (38.46%) VPN
9 4 (30.77%) Linux
9 4 (30.77%) Python
9 4 (30.77%) Agile
9 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
9 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
9 4 (30.77%) AWS
9 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
9 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (30.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (30.77%) Pulumi
9 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) GitHub
3 7 (53.85%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (53.85%) PaaS
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 4 (30.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (30.77%) Pulumi
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (23.08%) Copilot Studio
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (15.38%) GCP
7 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (7.69%) Datadog
7 1 (7.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.69%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Financial Institution
1 3 (23.08%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) VMS
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (69.23%) DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
4 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (46.15%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
6 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
6 3 (23.08%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
6 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
7 2 (15.38%) Observability
7 2 (15.38%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) Go
4 2 (15.38%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) Groovy
5 1 (7.69%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) Ruby
5 1 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Virtual Desktop
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Ansible
3 3 (23.08%) Progress Chef
4 2 (15.38%) Consul
4 2 (15.38%) Packer
4 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 2 (15.38%) Puppet
5 1 (7.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Citrix
1 6 (46.15%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (7.69%) Google