Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 514 539
Rank change year-on-year +142 +25 +190
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 25 78 134
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.24% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 20 63 95
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £49,000
25th Percentile £61,625 £72,500 £57,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £86,250 £96,000 £85,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Cloud Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Platform Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Platform Engineer.

Cloud Platform Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cloud Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (96.00%) Platform Engineering
2 18 (72.00%) Python
2 18 (72.00%) DevOps
3 17 (68.00%) Kubernetes
4 15 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (56.00%) Docker
6 13 (52.00%) Azure
7 11 (44.00%) AWS
7 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
8 10 (40.00%) Containerisation
8 10 (40.00%) Terraform
9 8 (32.00%) Cloud Security
10 7 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (24.00%) Migration
11 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
11 6 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (24.00%) Bicep
12 5 (20.00%) Observability
12 5 (20.00%) Azure AKS
12 5 (20.00%) AWS CDK
12 5 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (20.00%) Ansible
12 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
12 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
12 5 (20.00%) Bash
12 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
13 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
13 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.00%) Jupyter
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) AWS
3 6 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 5 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (16.00%) AWS Control Tower
5 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Serverless
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (12.00%) GitHub
6 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.00%) Datadog
8 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (4.00%) GCP
8 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (12.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.00%) MariaDB
4 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (12.00%) Advertising
1 3 (12.00%) Marketing
2 2 (8.00%) Banking
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (12.00%) Kafka
2 3 (12.00%) YAML
3 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) ADO
4 1 (4.00%) AWS SAM
4 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) SAML
4 1 (4.00%) Spring
4 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (96.00%) Platform Engineering
2 18 (72.00%) DevOps
3 15 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (32.00%) Cloud Security
7 7 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (24.00%) Migration
9 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 5 (20.00%) Observability
10 4 (16.00%) Agile
10 4 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
10 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
11 3 (12.00%) Data Development
11 3 (12.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Bicep
2 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.00%) Bash
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (8.00%) Go
7 1 (4.00%) C#
7 1 (4.00%) Java
7 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 14 (56.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (68.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (40.00%) Terraform
3 5 (20.00%) Ansible
4 2 (8.00%) Grafana
4 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Atlassian