Cloud Platform Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 551 533
Rank change year-on-year +67 -18 +110
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 22 21 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.059% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.063% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 20 15 28
10th Percentile £49,100 £48,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -13.60%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,375 £77,188
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,750 £82,375
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 38,179 33,328 33,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,318 16,178 25,075
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies 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 13 January 2026.

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 13 January 2026. 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
Midlands +32 8 £72,500 +31.82% 10
West Midlands +29 7 £75,000 +36.36% 2
North of England +24 4 £55,500 -28.39% 11
East of England - 4 £85,000 - 8
North West +22 2 £55,500 -28.39% 4
South West +5 2 £72,500 - 10
Wales +5 2 £68,500 +8.30% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £60,000 - 6
South East +23 1 £77,500 +14.81% 14
Scotland +1 1 £70,000 +40.00% 3
East Midlands - 1 £70,000 - 8
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Cloud Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 22 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 17 (77.27%) Terraform
3 15 (68.18%) Azure
4 14 (63.64%) Cloud Security
4 14 (63.64%) DevOps
5 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
6 11 (50.00%) AWS
6 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
7 10 (45.45%) Python
8 9 (40.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (40.91%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (40.91%) Linux
9 8 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (36.36%) Grafana
9 8 (36.36%) Observability
9 8 (36.36%) Prometheus
9 8 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (31.82%) Bash
11 6 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (27.27%) Degree
11 6 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
11 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
12 5 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
12 5 (22.73%) High Availability
12 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
12 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
12 5 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) Confluence
1 2 (9.09%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) AWS
3 9 (40.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
6 4 (18.18%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 4 (18.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (18.18%) CloudFront
6 4 (18.18%) GCP
7 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (13.64%) Serverless
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (9.09%) GitHub
8 2 (9.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) FTP
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
1 2 (9.09%) IMAP
1 2 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (9.09%) SMTP
1 2 (9.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
3 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) Vagrant
4 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Military
2 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Billing
3 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Loki
2 2 (9.09%) LDAP
3 1 (4.55%) Software Packaging
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
2 2 (9.09%) VMS
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 14 (63.64%) Cloud Security
2 14 (63.64%) DevOps
3 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
4 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (36.36%) Observability
6 6 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (22.73%) High Availability
7 5 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (18.18%) Agile
8 4 (18.18%) Auto-Scaling
8 4 (18.18%) Blue-Green Deployment
8 4 (18.18%) Canary Deployment
8 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (18.18%) Migration
8 4 (18.18%) Secrets Management
9 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (13.64%) GitOps
9 3 (13.64%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Bash
3 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Groovy
6 1 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) DFS Replication
2 2 (9.09%) Dovecot
2 2 (9.09%) Postfix
2 2 (9.09%) Squid
Systems Management
1 17 (77.27%) Terraform
2 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 8 (36.36%) Grafana
3 8 (36.36%) Prometheus
4 4 (18.18%) Ansible
5 2 (9.09%) Nessus
5 2 (9.09%) Proxmox
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks
2 2 (9.09%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow