Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 746 763 1026
Rank change year-on-year +17 +263 -453
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 162 198 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.22% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 124 152 153
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,600 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,563 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £92,813 £80,625 £92,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +15.75% +26.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the UK

Cloud Platform Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England +38 148 £75,000 +7.14% 37
London +125 80 £85,000 +9.68% 15
Work from Home +7 80 £75,000 +8.00% 22
UK excluding London -56 72 £60,000 -13.60% 25
North of England 0 39 £60,000 -14.29% 11
North West -13 21 £60,000 -15.79% 8
Midlands +12 19 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Yorkshire +53 17 £60,000 -13.60% 3
West Midlands +18 11 £70,000 +3.70% 3
East Midlands -4 8 £60,000 -40.00%
South West -36 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
Wales +6 4 £53,750 - 2
North East -1 3 £80,000 +14.29%
South East -9 3 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Scotland -74 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 161 (99.38%) Platform Engineering
2 119 (73.46%) Azure
3 106 (65.43%) Terraform
4 101 (62.35%) DevOps
5 100 (61.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 79 (48.77%) Kubernetes
7 74 (45.68%) AWS
7 74 (45.68%) CI/CD
8 70 (43.21%) Python
9 68 (41.98%) Docker
10 57 (35.19%) PowerShell
11 49 (30.25%) Bash
12 48 (29.63%) Microsoft
13 45 (27.78%) Ansible
13 45 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
14 44 (27.16%) Social Skills
15 38 (23.46%) Containerisation
16 36 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (22.22%) SQL
16 36 (22.22%) Agile
17 35 (21.60%) PaaS
18 32 (19.75%) Azure AKS
19 29 (17.90%) Java
19 29 (17.90%) Configuration Management
19 29 (17.90%) Jenkins
20 28 (17.28%) Serverless
20 28 (17.28%) Infrastructure Automation
21 27 (16.67%) Linux
21 27 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
22 25 (15.43%) GitHub

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 10 (6.17%) Confluence
2 2 (1.23%) SAS
3 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 119 (73.46%) Azure
2 74 (45.68%) AWS
3 45 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (21.60%) PaaS
5 32 (19.75%) Azure AKS
6 28 (17.28%) Serverless
7 25 (15.43%) GitHub
8 22 (13.58%) IaaS
9 18 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 18 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
10 17 (10.49%) GCP
11 14 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (8.64%) Entra ID
12 13 (8.02%) Amazon S3
12 13 (8.02%) Route 53
13 12 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (6.17%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.02%) Network Security
2 12 (7.41%) Firewall
3 7 (4.32%) IPv4
3 7 (4.32%) VPN
4 5 (3.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (9.26%) MongoDB
4 14 (8.64%) MySQL
5 12 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (6.79%) MariaDB
6 11 (6.79%) Redis
7 9 (5.56%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.56%) Power BI
8 4 (2.47%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.62%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (17.90%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.58%) Git
3 11 (6.79%) JIRA
4 10 (6.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (5.56%) Subversion
6 6 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (2.47%) GitLab
8 3 (1.85%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.23%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.62%) MLflow
10 1 (0.62%) Vagrant
General
1 44 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.81%) Finance
3 17 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (10.49%) Retail
4 7 (4.32%) Law
5 6 (3.70%) Banking
6 3 (1.85%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.23%) Legal
8 1 (0.62%) Games
8 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.64%) ARM Templates
2 12 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (4.94%) SAML
4 5 (3.09%) Kafka
5 4 (2.47%) REST
6 2 (1.23%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.23%) Loki
7 1 (0.62%) .NET
7 1 (0.62%) ADO
7 1 (0.62%) Middleware
7 1 (0.62%) Node.js
7 1 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (9.88%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.64%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (6.79%) Data Centre
5 9 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.94%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.09%) Blog
7 5 (3.09%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.47%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.62%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.62%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.62%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.67%) Linux
2 15 (9.26%) Windows
3 11 (6.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.23%) VMS
6 1 (0.62%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (99.38%) Platform Engineering
2 101 (62.35%) DevOps
3 100 (61.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (45.68%) CI/CD
5 38 (23.46%) Containerisation
6 36 (22.22%) Agile
6 36 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (17.90%) Configuration Management
8 28 (17.28%) Infrastructure Automation
9 27 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (14.20%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (13.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (12.96%) Network Virtualisation
13 20 (12.35%) Cloud Security
14 18 (11.11%) Analytics
15 16 (9.88%) Machine Learning
16 15 (9.26%) Identity Access Management
16 15 (9.26%) Migration
17 14 (8.64%) Data Protection
18 13 (8.02%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 70 (43.21%) Python
2 57 (35.19%) PowerShell
3 49 (30.25%) Bash
4 36 (22.22%) SQL
5 29 (17.90%) Java
6 25 (15.43%) Bicep
7 19 (11.73%) Go
8 10 (6.17%) Groovy
9 9 (5.56%) C#
10 8 (4.94%) Perl
10 8 (4.94%) Ruby
11 7 (4.32%) JavaScript
11 7 (4.32%) TypeScript
12 6 (3.70%) PHP
13 1 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (8.02%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.17%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.94%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.94%) Degree
5 7 (4.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.23%) GDPR
3 2 (1.23%) QA
4 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.62%) SEPA
System Software
1 68 (41.98%) Docker
2 15 (9.26%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (65.43%) Terraform
2 79 (48.77%) Kubernetes
3 45 (27.78%) Ansible
4 20 (12.35%) Progress Chef
4 20 (12.35%) Puppet
5 18 (11.11%) Grafana
6 17 (10.49%) Prometheus
7 14 (8.64%) Salt
8 12 (7.41%) Packer
9 7 (4.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (3.09%) Karpenter
11 3 (1.85%) Kibana
12 2 (1.23%) logstash
12 2 (1.23%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.62%) Consul
13 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 48 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.02%) Google
3 9 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 8 (4.94%) New Relic
5 6 (3.70%) Databricks
5 6 (3.70%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.47%) Splunk
7 2 (1.23%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.23%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.23%) PagerDuty