Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 698 613
Rank change year-on-year +132 -85 +140
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 16 73 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.10% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13 55 105
10th Percentile £61,625 - £51,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -13.60% +15.75%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £89,250 £70,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £76,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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 of England +18 7 £67,500 +12.50% 17
North West -16 6 £66,250 +10.42% 16
South East +92 3 £82,500 +37.50% 17
South West +99 2 £72,500 +11.54% 3
West Midlands +59 2 £75,000 +7.14% 9
Wales +42 2 £63,250 +17.67%
Midlands +40 2 £75,000 +15.38% 10
North East +42 1 £75,500 -5.63%
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (93.75%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (81.25%) Python
3 12 (75.00%) Terraform
4 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (56.25%) AWS
5 9 (56.25%) PowerShell
6 8 (50.00%) Azure
6 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
7 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
7 7 (43.75%) Docker
7 7 (43.75%) DevOps
8 6 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (37.50%) Bicep
9 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
9 5 (31.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
9 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
9 5 (31.25%) Bash
10 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
10 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
10 4 (25.00%) Migration
10 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (25.00%) Ansible
10 4 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
10 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
10 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
10 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
1 2 (12.50%) Jupyter
2 1 (6.25%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
4 5 (31.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (18.75%) GitHub
7 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
7 2 (12.50%) Serverless
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (6.25%) OCI
8 1 (6.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) FTP
3 1 (6.25%) HTTP
3 1 (6.25%) IMAP
3 1 (6.25%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (6.25%) SMTP
3 1 (6.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.25%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Aviation
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) ADO
2 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.25%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.25%) VMS
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (43.75%) DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
5 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Migration
7 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (12.50%) Cost Management
8 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (12.50%) IT Strategy
8 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
8 2 (12.50%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) PowerShell
3 6 (37.50%) Bicep
4 5 (31.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (6.25%) Groovy
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CCSP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
1 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) DFS Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Dovecot
2 1 (6.25%) Postfix
2 1 (6.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Nessus
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Proxmox
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow