Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 625 689 754
Rank change year-on-year +64 +65 +214
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 45 148 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.18% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 37 114 146
10th Percentile £54,500 £56,975 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £86,875 £82,500
90th Percentile - £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 43,436 80,761 84,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.49% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,713 60,391 53,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,995 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 7 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
London +45 28 £90,000 +18.03% 24
North of England +31 8 £66,250 +10.42% 20
North West -2 7 £65,000 +8.33% 16
South West +120 4 £75,000 +15.38% 4
South East +93 1 £82,500 +20.00% 11
North East +47 1 £75,500 -5.63% 1
Midlands +39 1 £50,000 -23.08% 4
West Midlands +33 1 £50,000 -28.57% 4
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 England region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (95.56%) Platform Engineering
2 31 (68.89%) Azure
3 28 (62.22%) DevOps
4 26 (57.78%) Kubernetes
4 26 (57.78%) Terraform
5 25 (55.56%) CI/CD
6 24 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (51.11%) Python
8 17 (37.78%) Docker
9 15 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (33.33%) Containerisation
9 15 (33.33%) PowerShell
10 14 (31.11%) AWS
11 13 (28.89%) Cloud Security
12 12 (26.67%) GitHub
13 11 (24.44%) Linux
13 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (22.22%) VMware
14 10 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (22.22%) Ansible
14 10 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
15 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
15 9 (20.00%) Citrix
15 9 (20.00%) Bicep
15 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
16 8 (17.78%) Azure Certification
16 8 (17.78%) PaaS
16 8 (17.78%) Bash
17 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (68.89%) Azure
2 15 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (31.11%) AWS
4 12 (26.67%) GitHub
5 10 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (17.78%) PaaS
7 6 (13.33%) Azure AKS
8 5 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (11.11%) GCP
9 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
9 4 (8.89%) Serverless
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (6.67%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (6.67%) Pulumi
10 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) VPN
2 3 (6.67%) DHCP
2 3 (6.67%) DNS
3 2 (4.44%) Firewall
4 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.67%) GitLab
2 3 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.22%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.22%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (11.11%) Finance
2 4 (8.89%) Banking
3 3 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 3 (6.67%) Law
3 3 (6.67%) Marketing
3 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Advertising
5 1 (2.22%) Aviation
5 1 (2.22%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) Kafka
2 2 (4.44%) .NET
2 2 (4.44%) AWS CDK
2 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.44%) REST
2 2 (4.44%) YAML
3 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.22%) ADO
3 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.22%) AWS SAM
3 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.22%) Node.js
3 1 (2.22%) SAML
3 1 (2.22%) Spring
3 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.67%) Clustering
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Linux
2 5 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.67%) Windows
3 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.22%) Unix
4 1 (2.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (95.56%) Platform Engineering
2 28 (62.22%) DevOps
3 25 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 24 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 13 (28.89%) Cloud Security
7 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (15.56%) Agile
10 7 (15.56%) Observability
10 7 (15.56%) Regulatory Compliance
11 6 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (13.33%) Migration
12 5 (11.11%) Configuration Management
12 5 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
12 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (11.11%) Machine Learning
12 5 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
12 5 (11.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 23 (51.11%) Python
2 15 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 9 (20.00%) Bicep
4 8 (17.78%) Bash
5 4 (8.89%) C#
5 4 (8.89%) Go
5 4 (8.89%) SQL
5 4 (8.89%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.67%) Java
6 3 (6.67%) Ruby
7 1 (2.22%) C
7 1 (2.22%) Groovy
7 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Azure Certification
2 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.22%) CCSP
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.22%) CISSP
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) GDPR
2 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.44%) NIST
3 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 17 (37.78%) Docker
2 10 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (15.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
5 3 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (57.78%) Kubernetes
1 26 (57.78%) Terraform
2 10 (22.22%) Ansible
3 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.67%) Puppet
5 2 (4.44%) Consul
5 2 (4.44%) Grafana
5 2 (4.44%) Packer
6 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.22%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) VMware
2 9 (20.00%) Citrix
2 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.89%) Databricks
5 2 (4.44%) Google
6 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.22%) IBM
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle
6 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto