Cloud Platform Engineer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 December 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - +75
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 2 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.12% - 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £52,500 - -
25th Percentile £54,375 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £55,000
75th Percentile £66,875 - -
90th Percentile £69,500 - £60,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 - £55,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,550 1,602 1,954
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 95.58% 97.17%
Number of salaries quoted 922 881 1,457
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in West Yorkshire

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 December 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
Huddersfield - 1 £52,500 -
Leeds - 1 £67,500 - 2
Cloud Platform Engineer
Yorkshire

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 10 December 2025, 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Software Packaging
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft