Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 741 776 996
Rank change year-on-year +35 +220 -433
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 153 210 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.22% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 121 163 159
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,375 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £105,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +15.75% +26.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 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
England +68 140 £75,000 +7.14% 37
Work from Home +43 76 £75,000 +8.00% 30
London +175 74 £75,000 -3.23% 19
UK excluding London -42 70 £60,000 -13.60% 29
North of England +1 37 £60,000 -13.60% 10
North West -8 20 £60,000 -14.29% 6
Midlands +14 18 £65,000 -7.14% 5
Yorkshire +59 16 £60,000 -13.60% 2
West Midlands +35 11 £70,000 +3.70% 4
East Midlands -10 7 £60,000 -40.00% 1
South West -41 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
South East +13 4 £68,750 -1.79% 2
Wales +11 4 £53,750 - 4
North East +5 3 £80,000 +14.29% 2
Scotland -62 2 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 152 (99.35%) Platform Engineering
2 112 (73.20%) Azure
3 100 (65.36%) Terraform
4 98 (64.05%) DevOps
5 96 (62.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 76 (49.67%) Kubernetes
7 73 (47.71%) AWS
7 73 (47.71%) Python
7 73 (47.71%) CI/CD
8 64 (41.83%) Docker
9 51 (33.33%) PowerShell
10 45 (29.41%) Social Skills
11 42 (27.45%) Bash
11 42 (27.45%) Azure DevOps
12 41 (26.80%) Microsoft
13 38 (24.84%) Ansible
14 37 (24.18%) Containerisation
15 35 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (22.22%) Agile
17 32 (20.92%) Java
18 31 (20.26%) Configuration Management
19 30 (19.61%) Jenkins
20 28 (18.30%) SQL
20 28 (18.30%) Linux
21 27 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
21 27 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
21 27 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
21 27 (17.65%) Azure AKS
22 26 (16.99%) Serverless
22 26 (16.99%) PaaS

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (6.54%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) SAS
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 112 (73.20%) Azure
2 73 (47.71%) AWS
3 42 (27.45%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (17.65%) Azure AKS
5 26 (16.99%) PaaS
5 26 (16.99%) Serverless
6 22 (14.38%) IaaS
7 18 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (11.76%) GitHub
8 16 (10.46%) GCP
9 15 (9.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 14 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (8.50%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (8.50%) Amazon S3
11 13 (8.50%) Route 53
12 12 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (7.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (7.19%) Entra ID
14 10 (6.54%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (6.54%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.50%) Network Security
2 11 (7.19%) Firewall
3 7 (4.58%) IPv4
3 7 (4.58%) VPN
4 5 (3.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (7.84%) MongoDB
3 11 (7.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (7.19%) MySQL
4 9 (5.88%) BigQuery
4 9 (5.88%) Power BI
5 8 (5.23%) MariaDB
5 8 (5.23%) Redis
6 4 (2.61%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.65%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (19.61%) Jenkins
2 21 (13.73%) Git
3 11 (7.19%) JIRA
4 9 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 9 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (5.88%) Subversion
5 6 (3.92%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.96%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.96%) GitLab
6 3 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.31%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.65%) MLflow
8 1 (0.65%) Vagrant
General
1 45 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (12.42%) Finance
4 17 (11.11%) Retail
5 16 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.58%) Law
7 6 (3.92%) Banking
8 3 (1.96%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.31%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Games
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.15%) ARM Templates
2 8 (5.23%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (3.92%) SAML
4 5 (3.27%) Kafka
5 4 (2.61%) REST
6 2 (1.31%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.31%) Loki
7 1 (0.65%) .NET
7 1 (0.65%) ADO
7 1 (0.65%) Middleware
7 1 (0.65%) Node.js
7 1 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (10.46%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (7.19%) Data Centre
5 10 (6.54%) Product Ownership
6 9 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (4.58%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.27%) Blog
9 4 (2.61%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.31%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.65%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.65%) Digital Currency
12 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
12 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.30%) Linux
2 14 (9.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (8.50%) Windows
4 6 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.65%) CentOS
6 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (99.35%) Platform Engineering
2 98 (64.05%) DevOps
3 96 (62.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (47.71%) CI/CD
5 37 (24.18%) Containerisation
6 35 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (22.22%) Agile
8 31 (20.26%) Configuration Management
9 27 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
10 22 (14.38%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (13.73%) Network Virtualisation
12 19 (12.42%) Cloud Security
13 18 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (10.46%) Innovative Thinking
15 15 (9.80%) Analytics
15 15 (9.80%) Machine Learning
16 14 (9.15%) Data Protection
16 14 (9.15%) Migration
16 14 (9.15%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (47.71%) Python
2 51 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 42 (27.45%) Bash
4 32 (20.92%) Java
5 28 (18.30%) SQL
6 24 (15.69%) Bicep
7 19 (12.42%) Go
8 11 (7.19%) Groovy
8 11 (7.19%) Perl
9 9 (5.88%) C#
10 8 (5.23%) Ruby
11 7 (4.58%) JavaScript
11 7 (4.58%) TypeScript
12 6 (3.92%) PHP
13 1 (0.65%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (9.15%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.50%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.23%) Degree
5 7 (4.58%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.92%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.31%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.65%) QA
4 1 (0.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 64 (41.83%) Docker
2 12 (7.84%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 100 (65.36%) Terraform
2 76 (49.67%) Kubernetes
3 38 (24.84%) Ansible
4 24 (15.69%) Puppet
5 23 (15.03%) Progress Chef
6 18 (11.76%) Grafana
7 17 (11.11%) Prometheus
7 17 (11.11%) Salt
8 12 (7.84%) Packer
9 4 (2.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.96%) Kibana
11 2 (1.31%) logstash
11 2 (1.31%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.65%) Consul
Vendors
1 41 (26.80%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.50%) Google
3 9 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 8 (5.23%) New Relic
5 7 (4.58%) SaltStack
6 5 (3.27%) Databricks
7 4 (2.61%) Splunk
8 2 (1.31%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.31%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.65%) Dataiku