Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in Work from Home is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 522 745
Rank change year-on-year +27 +223 -373
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 80 138 116
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.34% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.35% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 61 99 101
10th Percentile £55,000 £50,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £58,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +6.84% +36.84%
75th Percentile £96,000 £87,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,489 38,930 69,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.09% 95.94% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,845 27,706 42,291
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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 20 May 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 80 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 64 (80.00%) Terraform
3 54 (67.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (65.00%) DevOps
4 52 (65.00%) Azure
5 50 (62.50%) Kubernetes
6 45 (56.25%) Python
7 42 (52.50%) Docker
8 41 (51.25%) AWS
9 38 (47.50%) CI/CD
10 31 (38.75%) Ansible
11 26 (32.50%) Java
12 23 (28.75%) Configuration Management
12 23 (28.75%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (27.50%) Serverless
13 22 (27.50%) Azure AKS
13 22 (27.50%) Agile
13 22 (27.50%) PowerShell
13 22 (27.50%) GitHub
14 20 (25.00%) Bash
14 20 (25.00%) Jenkins
14 20 (25.00%) SQL
15 19 (23.75%) Progress Chef
15 19 (23.75%) Puppet
16 18 (22.50%) Finance
17 16 (20.00%) Containerisation
17 16 (20.00%) Microsoft
17 16 (20.00%) Linux
17 16 (20.00%) PaaS
18 15 (18.75%) Go

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 9 (11.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 52 (65.00%) Azure
2 41 (51.25%) AWS
3 23 (28.75%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (27.50%) Azure AKS
4 22 (27.50%) GitHub
4 22 (27.50%) Serverless
5 16 (20.00%) PaaS
6 14 (17.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (13.75%) Amazon S3
8 11 (13.75%) Route 53
8 11 (13.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (12.50%) GCP
10 9 (11.25%) IaaS
11 8 (10.00%) Datadog
11 8 (10.00%) Entra ID
12 7 (8.75%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (8.75%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.50%) Firewall
2 5 (6.25%) DNS
2 5 (6.25%) IPv4
2 5 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (13.75%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (12.50%) MySQL
4 9 (11.25%) MariaDB
4 9 (11.25%) MongoDB
4 9 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (11.25%) Redis
5 7 (8.75%) BigQuery
6 6 (7.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.50%) JIRA
3 9 (11.25%) Bitbucket
3 9 (11.25%) Git
3 9 (11.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (11.25%) Subversion
4 6 (7.50%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (7.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (3.75%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.25%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (22.50%) Finance
2 14 (17.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (17.50%) Retail
3 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.75%) Law
5 6 (7.50%) Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (8.75%) SAML
2 6 (7.50%) ARM Templates
3 5 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (1.25%) ADO
4 1 (1.25%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.25%) Middleware
4 1 (1.25%) Node.js
4 1 (1.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (17.50%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (11.25%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (8.75%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.25%) Blog
6 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.75%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.25%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.00%) Linux
2 9 (11.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.50%) Windows
4 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.25%) CentOS
5 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 54 (67.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (65.00%) DevOps
4 38 (47.50%) CI/CD
5 23 (28.75%) Configuration Management
6 22 (27.50%) Agile
7 16 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 13 (16.25%) Identity Access Management
8 13 (16.25%) Innovative Thinking
9 12 (15.00%) Analytics
9 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 12 (15.00%) Machine Learning
9 12 (15.00%) Migration
9 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
11 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (11.25%) Data Migration
11 9 (11.25%) Design Patterns
11 9 (11.25%) Software Testing
12 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (56.25%) Python
2 26 (32.50%) Java
3 22 (27.50%) PowerShell
4 20 (25.00%) Bash
4 20 (25.00%) SQL
5 15 (18.75%) Go
6 8 (10.00%) C#
6 8 (10.00%) Groovy
6 8 (10.00%) Perl
7 7 (8.75%) TypeScript
8 6 (7.50%) JavaScript
8 6 (7.50%) PHP
8 6 (7.50%) Ruby
9 4 (5.00%) Bicep
10 1 (1.25%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Azure Certification
2 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) AWS Certification
3 7 (8.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (8.75%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) Degree
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 42 (52.50%) Docker
2 9 (11.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (80.00%) Terraform
2 50 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 31 (38.75%) Ansible
4 19 (23.75%) Progress Chef
4 19 (23.75%) Puppet
5 13 (16.25%) Grafana
5 13 (16.25%) Prometheus
5 13 (16.25%) Salt
6 10 (12.50%) Packer
7 5 (6.25%) Karpenter
8 3 (3.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.50%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.25%) Consul
10 1 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 16 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.25%) Atlassian
3 8 (10.00%) Google
3 8 (10.00%) New Relic
4 6 (7.50%) SaltStack
5 5 (6.25%) Databricks
6 2 (2.50%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (2.50%) PagerDuty
6 2 (2.50%) Splunk