Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 680 744 1001
Rank change year-on-year +64 +257 -434
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 149 182 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.23% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 113 142 127
10th Percentile £55,250 £52,500 £53,250
25th Percentile £60,050 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £106,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 82,670 80,142 132,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.50% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 61,486 50,956 74,862
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +143 79 £85,000 +11.48% 17
North of England -3 41 £60,000 -13.95% 10
North West -12 22 £60,000 -14.29% 8
Midlands +2 19 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Yorkshire +53 18 £60,000 -13.60% 2
West Midlands +12 11 £70,000 +3.70% 3
East Midlands +1 8 £60,000 -40.00%
South West -41 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
South East +5 3 £60,000 -14.29% 9
North East -5 3 £80,000 +14.29%
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 149 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 110 (73.83%) Azure
3 97 (65.10%) Terraform
4 93 (62.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (59.73%) DevOps
6 77 (51.68%) Kubernetes
7 72 (48.32%) CI/CD
8 67 (44.97%) Python
9 66 (44.30%) Docker
10 65 (43.62%) AWS
11 55 (36.91%) PowerShell
12 47 (31.54%) Bash
13 43 (28.86%) Ansible
14 41 (27.52%) Microsoft
15 39 (26.17%) Social Skills
16 38 (25.50%) Azure DevOps
17 34 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
18 33 (22.15%) Containerisation
19 32 (21.48%) Agile
20 31 (20.81%) PaaS
21 29 (19.46%) Configuration Management
21 29 (19.46%) SQL
22 28 (18.79%) Java
22 28 (18.79%) Infrastructure Automation
22 28 (18.79%) Azure AKS
23 27 (18.12%) Jenkins
23 27 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
24 26 (17.45%) GitHub
25 25 (16.78%) Finance
26 24 (16.11%) Linux

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 110 (73.83%) Azure
2 65 (43.62%) AWS
3 38 (25.50%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (20.81%) PaaS
5 28 (18.79%) Azure AKS
6 26 (17.45%) GitHub
7 23 (15.44%) Serverless
8 18 (12.08%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (12.08%) IaaS
9 17 (11.41%) GCP
10 14 (9.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 13 (8.72%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (8.05%) Amazon S3
12 12 (8.05%) Route 53
12 12 (8.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (6.71%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (6.71%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (6.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.72%) Network Security
2 8 (5.37%) Firewall
3 4 (2.68%) DNS
4 3 (2.01%) IPv4
4 3 (2.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (10.07%) MongoDB
2 15 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.40%) MySQL
4 12 (8.05%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (7.38%) MariaDB
5 11 (7.38%) Redis
6 9 (6.04%) BigQuery
7 7 (4.70%) Power BI
8 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 27 (18.12%) Jenkins
2 19 (12.75%) Git
3 11 (7.38%) JIRA
4 10 (6.71%) Bitbucket
4 10 (6.71%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (6.04%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (6.04%) Subversion
6 6 (4.03%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (3.36%) GitLab
8 3 (2.01%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.34%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.67%) Vagrant
General
1 39 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.78%) Finance
3 17 (11.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (11.41%) Retail
4 15 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.03%) Banking
5 6 (4.03%) Law
6 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.34%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.67%) Games
7 1 (0.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.40%) ARM Templates
2 11 (7.38%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (5.37%) SAML
4 5 (3.36%) Kafka
5 2 (1.34%) Loki
5 2 (1.34%) REST
6 1 (0.67%) .NET
6 1 (0.67%) ADO
6 1 (0.67%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.67%) Middleware
6 1 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (11.41%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.72%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (6.71%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (6.04%) Data Centre
6 8 (5.37%) Cloud Native
6 8 (5.37%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.36%) Blog
7 5 (3.36%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.67%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.67%) Digital Currency
11 1 (0.67%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.11%) Linux
2 13 (8.72%) Windows
3 9 (6.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.36%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.34%) VMS
6 1 (0.67%) CentOS
6 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 93 (62.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 89 (59.73%) DevOps
4 72 (48.32%) CI/CD
5 34 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (22.15%) Containerisation
7 32 (21.48%) Agile
8 29 (19.46%) Configuration Management
9 28 (18.79%) Infrastructure Automation
10 27 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (15.44%) Continuous Integration
12 22 (14.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (14.09%) Network Virtualisation
14 18 (12.08%) Cloud Security
15 16 (10.74%) Analytics
15 16 (10.74%) Migration
16 15 (10.07%) Identity Access Management
16 15 (10.07%) Machine Learning
17 14 (9.40%) Data Protection
18 13 (8.72%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 67 (44.97%) Python
2 55 (36.91%) PowerShell
3 47 (31.54%) Bash
4 29 (19.46%) SQL
5 28 (18.79%) Java
6 24 (16.11%) Bicep
7 20 (13.42%) Go
8 9 (6.04%) C#
8 9 (6.04%) Groovy
9 8 (5.37%) Ruby
10 7 (4.70%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.70%) Perl
10 7 (4.70%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.03%) PHP
12 1 (0.67%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.71%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.70%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.68%) Degree
8 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.70%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.34%) GDPR
3 2 (1.34%) QA
4 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 66 (44.30%) Docker
2 10 (6.71%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (65.10%) Terraform
2 77 (51.68%) Kubernetes
3 43 (28.86%) Ansible
4 19 (12.75%) Progress Chef
4 19 (12.75%) Puppet
5 16 (10.74%) Grafana
5 16 (10.74%) Prometheus
6 13 (8.72%) Salt
7 12 (8.05%) Packer
8 7 (4.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.68%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.34%) Kibana
10 2 (1.34%) logstash
10 2 (1.34%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.67%) Consul
11 1 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 41 (27.52%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.72%) Google
3 10 (6.71%) Atlassian
4 8 (5.37%) New Relic
5 6 (4.03%) SaltStack
6 5 (3.36%) Databricks
7 4 (2.68%) Splunk
8 2 (1.34%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.34%) PagerDuty