Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 590 615
Rank change year-on-year +92 +25 -134
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 84 113 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.21% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 96 181
10th Percentile £415 £478 £453
25th Percentile £461 £534 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% -
75th Percentile £588 £628 £625
90th Percentile £638 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £522 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -11.15% +6.82% +5.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +69 63 £538 -8.51% 27
London +78 41 £550 -8.33% 11
Work from Home +84 32 £520 -13.33% 19
UK excluding London +44 31 £522 -11.15% 18
Scotland +47 12 £470 -7.16%
North of England +26 8 £550 -4.35% 7
South East +10 8 £538 -9.47% 2
North West +20 4 £550 -5.38% 5
Yorkshire +14 4 £513 -10.87% 2
West Midlands - 4 £375 - 2
Midlands - 4 £375 - 3
South West +16 1 £500 -13.04% 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Cloud Platform Engineer contract 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 contract job ads featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (90.48%) Platform Engineering
2 60 (71.43%) Terraform
3 53 (63.10%) AWS
4 51 (60.71%) DevOps
5 41 (48.81%) Python
6 40 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (46.43%) CI/CD
8 37 (44.05%) Kubernetes
9 35 (41.67%) Azure
10 26 (30.95%) Docker
11 25 (29.76%) Bash
12 24 (28.57%) Ansible
13 21 (25.00%) Linux
14 20 (23.81%) Agile
15 19 (22.62%) Git
15 19 (22.62%) Security Cleared
15 19 (22.62%) Serverless
15 19 (22.62%) Containerisation
16 18 (21.43%) Social Skills
16 18 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (19.05%) SC Cleared
18 15 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
18 15 (17.86%) Jenkins
19 14 (16.67%) Grafana
19 14 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
20 13 (15.48%) GCP
20 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
20 13 (15.48%) Amazon S3
21 12 (14.29%) GitLab

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 7 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.14%) Confluence
3 4 (4.76%) nginx
4 2 (2.38%) Apache
4 2 (2.38%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (63.10%) AWS
2 35 (41.67%) Azure
3 19 (22.62%) Serverless
4 18 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (15.48%) Amazon S3
7 13 (15.48%) GCP
8 11 (13.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (13.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (11.90%) Snowflake
10 8 (9.52%) PaaS
11 7 (8.33%) Datadog
11 7 (8.33%) IaaS
11 7 (8.33%) OpenShift
12 6 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (7.14%) GitHub
13 5 (5.95%) AWS CloudTrail
13 5 (5.95%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.90%) DNS
2 7 (8.33%) Firewall
3 4 (4.76%) IPv4
4 3 (3.57%) Network Security
4 3 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.57%) InfluxDB
4 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.38%) MySQL
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.19%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.19%) Bigtable
5 1 (1.19%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.19%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.19%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.19%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.19%) Redis
5 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (22.62%) Git
2 15 (17.86%) Jenkins
3 12 (14.29%) GitLab
4 6 (7.14%) Artifactory
4 6 (7.14%) JIRA
5 4 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.19%) GoCD
7 1 (1.19%) Snyk
7 1 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.10%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.33%) Finance
4 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.38%) Billing
6 1 (1.19%) Banking
6 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.33%) YAML
2 6 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 6 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (3.57%) JSON
4 2 (2.38%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.38%) Django
4 2 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.38%) HornetQ
4 2 (2.38%) Kafka
4 2 (2.38%) Node.js
4 2 (2.38%) REST
4 2 (2.38%) VCL
5 1 (1.19%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.19%) PKI
3 1 (1.19%) PropTech
3 1 (1.19%) Replication
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.00%) Linux
2 9 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.14%) Debian
3 6 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.38%) Windows
5 1 (1.19%) Unix
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (90.48%) Platform Engineering
2 51 (60.71%) DevOps
3 40 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (46.43%) CI/CD
5 20 (23.81%) Agile
6 19 (22.62%) Containerisation
7 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (13.10%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (10.71%) Computer Science
9 9 (10.71%) Test Automation
10 8 (9.52%) Configuration Management
10 8 (9.52%) DevSecOps
10 8 (9.52%) GitOps
11 7 (8.33%) Data Engineering
11 7 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
12 6 (7.14%) DataOps
12 6 (7.14%) MLOps
12 6 (7.14%) Observability
13 5 (5.95%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 41 (48.81%) Python
2 25 (29.76%) Bash
3 11 (13.10%) Java
4 9 (10.71%) Go
5 8 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 8 (9.52%) SQL
6 7 (8.33%) Scala
7 6 (7.14%) Groovy
7 6 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.57%) Ruby
9 2 (2.38%) Bicep
9 2 (2.38%) C
9 2 (2.38%) C++
9 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.57%) Degree
5 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (30.95%) Docker
2 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.38%) Varnish
4 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (71.43%) Terraform
2 37 (44.05%) Kubernetes
3 24 (28.57%) Ansible
4 14 (16.67%) Grafana
5 7 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.14%) Kibana
7 3 (3.57%) Consul
7 3 (3.57%) HP Fortify
7 3 (3.57%) Packer
8 2 (2.38%) Argo
8 2 (2.38%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.38%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.19%) Istio
9 1 (1.19%) Puppet
9 1 (1.19%) Rundeck
9 1 (1.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Databricks
2 7 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.95%) Splunk
4 3 (3.57%) Google
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.57%) VMware
5 2 (2.38%) Cisco
5 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.38%) New Relic
6 1 (1.19%) BMC
6 1 (1.19%) Remedy
6 1 (1.19%) SAP
6 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.19%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.19%) webMethods