Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in London is £90,000 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 375 420 571
Rank change year-on-year +45 +151 +211
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 28 81 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.34% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.36% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 23 64 36
10th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £74,375 £72,500 £62,170
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £76,250 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.03% - -8.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,313 £95,000
90th Percentile - £115,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +7.14% -9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,677 22,261 33,396
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 94.13% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,473 16,753 24,565
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +44 12 £90,000 - 8
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (96.43%) Platform Engineering
2 20 (71.43%) Azure
3 18 (64.29%) DevOps
4 17 (60.71%) Kubernetes
4 17 (60.71%) Terraform
5 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 12 (42.86%) Docker
6 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (39.29%) Python
8 10 (35.71%) VMware
8 10 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
9 9 (32.14%) Linux
9 9 (32.14%) Citrix
9 9 (32.14%) GitHub
9 9 (32.14%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (28.57%) AWS
10 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
10 8 (28.57%) PaaS
11 7 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (25.00%) Ansible
11 7 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
12 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
12 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (21.43%) VPN
13 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
13 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (17.86%) Machine Learning

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (32.14%) GitHub
2 9 (32.14%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 8 (28.57%) PaaS
4 5 (17.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (10.71%) Copilot Studio
5 3 (10.71%) GCP
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (10.71%) Pulumi
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.14%) Datadog
6 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) VPN
2 3 (10.71%) DHCP
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) Firewall
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.57%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (14.29%) Banking
1 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Financial Institution
2 3 (10.71%) Law
3 1 (3.57%) Front Office
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.57%) AWS SAM
3 1 (3.57%) Node.js
3 1 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Clustering
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Windows
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.57%) Unix
4 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (96.43%) Platform Engineering
2 18 (64.29%) DevOps
3 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (17.86%) Analytics
8 5 (17.86%) Machine Learning
8 5 (17.86%) Network Virtualisation
9 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
9 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (14.29%) Data Analytics
9 4 (14.29%) Data Development
9 4 (14.29%) Data Security
9 4 (14.29%) Generative AI
9 4 (14.29%) Observability
9 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.29%) Bash
3 4 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) C#
4 3 (10.71%) Go
5 2 (7.14%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) Ruby
5 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.57%) Bicep
6 1 (3.57%) C
6 1 (3.57%) Groovy
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) Docker
2 10 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) Kubernetes
1 17 (60.71%) Terraform
2 7 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.14%) Consul
4 2 (7.14%) Packer
4 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.14%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.57%) Grafana
5 1 (3.57%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) VMware
2 9 (32.14%) Citrix
3 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
4 4 (14.29%) Databricks
4 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.14%) Google
6 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.57%) IBM
6 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto