Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 677 745 951
Rank change year-on-year +68 +206 -406
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 138 201 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.23% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 108 158 134
10th Percentile £56,225 £52,200 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -8.20% +27.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,438 £96,875
90th Percentile £110,000 £98,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 79,522 86,974 124,954
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.61% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59,823 54,838 76,240
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,386
25th Percentile £38,087 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 +165 75 £75,000 -3.23% 9
North of England +1 34 £60,000 -13.60% 11
North West -4 20 £60,000 -14.29% 6
Midlands +26 18 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Yorkshire +64 13 £60,000 -13.60% 3
West Midlands +38 11 £70,000 +3.70% 4
East Midlands -9 7 £60,000 -40.00% 2
South West -34 5 £65,000 -10.34% 1
South East -6 4 £68,750 -1.79% 3
North East -4 3 £80,000 +14.29% 2
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 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.

1 138 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 101 (73.19%) Azure
3 91 (65.94%) Terraform
4 87 (63.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (60.87%) DevOps
6 70 (50.72%) Kubernetes
7 67 (48.55%) Python
8 66 (47.83%) CI/CD
9 62 (44.93%) AWS
10 59 (42.75%) Docker
11 46 (33.33%) PowerShell
12 39 (28.26%) Social Skills
13 37 (26.81%) Ansible
13 37 (26.81%) Bash
14 35 (25.36%) Microsoft
14 35 (25.36%) Azure DevOps
15 32 (23.19%) Java
16 31 (22.46%) Configuration Management
16 31 (22.46%) Agile
17 30 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
18 28 (20.29%) Jenkins
18 28 (20.29%) Containerisation
19 27 (19.57%) Linux
19 27 (19.57%) Hybrid Cloud
20 24 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
20 24 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
20 24 (17.39%) Puppet
21 23 (16.67%) Progress Chef
21 23 (16.67%) Azure AKS
22 22 (15.94%) PaaS

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 9 (6.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 101 (73.19%) Azure
2 62 (44.93%) AWS
3 35 (25.36%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 22 (15.94%) PaaS
6 21 (15.22%) Serverless
7 18 (13.04%) GitHub
7 18 (13.04%) IaaS
8 15 (10.87%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (10.87%) GCP
9 13 (9.42%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (8.70%) Amazon S3
10 12 (8.70%) Route 53
10 12 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (7.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (7.25%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (7.25%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (5.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.25%) Network Security
2 7 (5.07%) Firewall
3 4 (2.90%) DNS
4 3 (2.17%) IPv4
4 3 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (8.70%) MongoDB
1 12 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (7.97%) MySQL
3 9 (6.52%) BigQuery
4 8 (5.80%) MariaDB
4 8 (5.80%) Redis
5 7 (5.07%) Power BI
6 4 (2.90%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (20.29%) Jenkins
2 18 (13.04%) Git
3 10 (7.25%) JIRA
4 9 (6.52%) Bitbucket
4 9 (6.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (6.52%) Subversion
5 6 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (2.17%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.45%) GitLab
7 2 (1.45%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.72%) Vagrant
General
1 39 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (13.77%) Finance
4 17 (12.32%) Retail
5 12 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.07%) Law
7 6 (4.35%) Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Legal
8 2 (1.45%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.14%) ARM Templates
2 7 (5.07%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (4.35%) SAML
4 5 (3.62%) Kafka
5 2 (1.45%) Loki
5 2 (1.45%) REST
6 1 (0.72%) .NET
6 1 (0.72%) ADO
6 1 (0.72%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.72%) Middleware
6 1 (0.72%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (12.32%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (11.59%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.52%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (6.52%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.07%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.62%) Blog
7 4 (2.90%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.45%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.72%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.72%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.57%) Linux
2 13 (9.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (8.70%) Windows
4 5 (3.62%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.72%) CentOS
5 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 87 (63.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (60.87%) DevOps
4 66 (47.83%) CI/CD
5 31 (22.46%) Agile
5 31 (22.46%) Configuration Management
6 30 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (20.29%) Containerisation
8 24 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
9 19 (13.77%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (13.04%) Network Virtualisation
11 16 (11.59%) Innovative Thinking
12 15 (10.87%) Cloud Security
12 15 (10.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (10.14%) Analytics
13 14 (10.14%) Machine Learning
13 14 (10.14%) Migration
13 14 (10.14%) Software Testing
14 12 (8.70%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (48.55%) Python
2 46 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 37 (26.81%) Bash
4 32 (23.19%) Java
5 22 (15.94%) SQL
6 21 (15.22%) Bicep
7 19 (13.77%) Go
8 11 (7.97%) Perl
9 10 (7.25%) Groovy
10 9 (6.52%) C#
11 8 (5.80%) Ruby
12 7 (5.07%) JavaScript
12 7 (5.07%) TypeScript
13 6 (4.35%) PHP
14 1 (0.72%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (9.42%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.52%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.90%) Degree
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.72%) QA
4 1 (0.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 59 (42.75%) Docker
2 10 (7.25%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (5.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 91 (65.94%) Terraform
2 70 (50.72%) Kubernetes
3 37 (26.81%) Ansible
4 24 (17.39%) Puppet
5 23 (16.67%) Progress Chef
6 17 (12.32%) Salt
7 16 (11.59%) Grafana
7 16 (11.59%) Prometheus
8 12 (8.70%) Packer
9 4 (2.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.45%) Kibana
10 2 (1.45%) logstash
10 2 (1.45%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.72%) Consul
Vendors
1 35 (25.36%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.42%) Google
3 9 (6.52%) Atlassian
4 8 (5.80%) New Relic
5 7 (5.07%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.90%) Databricks
6 4 (2.90%) Splunk
7 2 (1.45%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.45%) PagerDuty