Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > North of England

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the North of England is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 357 353
Rank change year-on-year +36 -4 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 8 37 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.072% 0.21% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.23% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6 23 71
10th Percentile £51,250 - £52,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £76,500 £67,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £80,375 £80,000 £95,000
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
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,242 16,430 15,642
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 94.95% 89.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,833 12,704 8,302
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,730 £78,500 £81,250
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the North of England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the North of England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the North of England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
North West +1 7 £65,000 +8.33% 10
North East +46 1 £75,500 -5.63% 1
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

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

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

1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Terraform
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Bicep
4 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 4 (50.00%) Python
5 3 (37.50%) Bash
5 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
5 3 (37.50%) AWS
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
6 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (25.00%) RBAC
6 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (25.00%) NIST
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (25.00%) SDLC
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
6 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (12.50%) OCI
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Aviation
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) RBAC
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) Data Management
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bicep
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCSP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle