Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 702 637 775
Rank change year-on-year -65 +138 -282
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 73 117 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.099% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.23% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 55 97 66
10th Percentile - £51,400 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +15.75% +26.32%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £88,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £69,724 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.98% -0.40% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
North of England +9 41 £60,000 -13.60% 10
North West -5 22 £60,000 -14.29% 8
Midlands +8 19 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Yorkshire +51 18 £60,000 -13.60% 2
West Midlands +16 11 £70,000 +3.70% 3
East Midlands -8 8 £60,000 -40.00%
South West -50 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
Wales +4 4 £53,750 - 2
South East -3 3 £60,000 -14.29% 2
North East -4 3 £80,000 +14.29%
Scotland -61 1 - -
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 72 (98.63%) Platform Engineering
2 64 (87.67%) Azure
3 50 (68.49%) DevOps
3 50 (68.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (56.16%) CI/CD
5 35 (47.95%) PowerShell
6 32 (43.84%) Python
7 31 (42.47%) Bash
8 30 (41.10%) Terraform
9 29 (39.73%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (39.73%) AWS
10 27 (36.99%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (35.62%) Kubernetes
11 26 (35.62%) Docker
12 24 (32.88%) Microsoft
13 23 (31.51%) Social Skills
14 22 (30.14%) Bicep
14 22 (30.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (28.77%) Continuous Integration
15 21 (28.77%) Network Virtualisation
16 19 (26.03%) Containerisation
17 16 (21.92%) Cloud Security
17 16 (21.92%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (21.92%) Agile
17 16 (21.92%) Analytics
17 16 (21.92%) Hybrid Cloud
18 15 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
18 15 (20.55%) Ansible
18 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure Automation
19 14 (19.18%) Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (2.74%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 64 (87.67%) Azure
2 29 (39.73%) AWS
3 27 (36.99%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (21.92%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (13.70%) Azure Key Vault
5 10 (13.70%) GCP
6 9 (12.33%) Azure AKS
6 9 (12.33%) IaaS
6 9 (12.33%) PaaS
7 8 (10.96%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (10.96%) Datadog
8 6 (8.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (8.22%) Power Platform
8 6 (8.22%) Pulumi
9 5 (6.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (5.48%) SaaS
11 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (4.11%) GitHub
11 3 (4.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.81%) Network Security
2 5 (6.85%) Firewall
3 1 (1.37%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.70%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.33%) MongoDB
2 9 (12.33%) MySQL
3 6 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (8.22%) MariaDB
3 6 (8.22%) Power BI
3 6 (8.22%) Redis
4 4 (5.48%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.37%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 14 (19.18%) Git
2 9 (12.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.22%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (5.48%) GitLab
5 2 (2.74%) JIRA
6 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.44%) Retail
4 6 (8.22%) Finance
5 1 (1.37%) Banking
5 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Games
5 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.18%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.74%) AWS CDK
2 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.74%) REST
3 1 (1.37%) Loki
3 1 (1.37%) Middleware
3 1 (1.37%) Node.js
3 1 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (9.59%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.22%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.22%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.11%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.37%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.81%) Windows
2 9 (12.33%) Linux
3 6 (8.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.74%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.37%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (98.63%) Platform Engineering
2 50 (68.49%) DevOps
2 50 (68.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (56.16%) CI/CD
4 29 (39.73%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (30.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (28.77%) Continuous Integration
6 21 (28.77%) Network Virtualisation
7 19 (26.03%) Containerisation
8 16 (21.92%) Agile
8 16 (21.92%) Analytics
8 16 (21.92%) Cloud Security
9 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (19.18%) Data Protection
10 14 (19.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (16.44%) DataOps
12 11 (15.07%) Business Strategy
13 10 (13.70%) Configuration Management
13 10 (13.70%) Creative Problem-Solving
13 10 (13.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 35 (47.95%) PowerShell
2 32 (43.84%) Python
3 31 (42.47%) Bash
4 22 (30.14%) Bicep
5 13 (17.81%) SQL
6 11 (15.07%) Go
7 9 (12.33%) Groovy
8 7 (9.59%) Java
8 7 (9.59%) Ruby
9 6 (8.22%) C#
9 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
9 6 (8.22%) PHP
9 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (9.59%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.37%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.74%) GDPR
2 2 (2.74%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.37%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (35.62%) Docker
2 8 (10.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (41.10%) Terraform
2 26 (35.62%) Kubernetes
3 15 (20.55%) Ansible
4 12 (16.44%) Grafana
5 11 (15.07%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.22%) Progress Chef
6 6 (8.22%) Puppet
7 3 (4.11%) Kibana
8 2 (2.74%) logstash
8 2 (2.74%) Rundeck
9 1 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 24 (32.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) New Relic
3 7 (9.59%) Google
4 6 (8.22%) SaltStack
5 5 (6.85%) Databricks
6 4 (5.48%) Splunk
7 2 (2.74%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.74%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.37%) Atlassian