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 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 508 526 753
Rank change year-on-year +18 +227 -373
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 77 127 116
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.32% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.33% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57 87 101
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £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 £96,250 £83,125 £86,000
90th Percentile £112,000 £101,000 £101,250
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
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 33,036 38,142 71,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 95.90% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 25,238 27,095 42,472
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £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 28 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 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 61 (79.22%) Terraform
3 52 (67.53%) DevOps
4 50 (64.94%) Azure
4 50 (64.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (61.04%) Kubernetes
6 42 (54.55%) Python
7 38 (49.35%) Docker
7 38 (49.35%) AWS
8 36 (46.75%) CI/CD
9 26 (33.77%) Ansible
10 23 (29.87%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (28.57%) Azure AKS
11 22 (28.57%) Java
11 22 (28.57%) PowerShell
12 21 (27.27%) GitHub
13 20 (25.97%) Bash
13 20 (25.97%) Agile
13 20 (25.97%) SQL
13 20 (25.97%) Serverless
14 19 (24.68%) Configuration Management
15 18 (23.38%) Finance
15 18 (23.38%) Jenkins
16 16 (20.78%) Go
16 16 (20.78%) PaaS
16 16 (20.78%) Microsoft
16 16 (20.78%) Containerisation
17 15 (19.48%) Puppet
17 15 (19.48%) Progress Chef
18 14 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database

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 8 (10.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 50 (64.94%) Azure
2 38 (49.35%) AWS
3 23 (29.87%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (28.57%) Azure AKS
5 21 (27.27%) GitHub
6 20 (25.97%) Serverless
7 16 (20.78%) PaaS
8 14 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (12.99%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (12.99%) GCP
11 9 (11.69%) Amazon S3
11 9 (11.69%) IaaS
11 9 (11.69%) Route 53
11 9 (11.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (10.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (10.39%) Datadog
12 8 (10.39%) Entra ID
13 7 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (9.09%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.99%) Firewall
2 5 (6.49%) IPv4
2 5 (6.49%) VPN
3 3 (3.90%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (12.99%) MySQL
3 9 (11.69%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (11.69%) MariaDB
3 9 (11.69%) MongoDB
3 9 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.69%) Redis
4 7 (9.09%) BigQuery
5 6 (7.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (23.38%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.69%) Git
2 9 (11.69%) JIRA
3 8 (10.39%) Bitbucket
4 7 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (9.09%) Subversion
5 6 (7.79%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (7.79%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (3.90%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.30%) GitLab
7 1 (1.30%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (23.38%) Finance
2 14 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (18.18%) Retail
3 11 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Banking
4 6 (7.79%) Law
5 1 (1.30%) Legal
5 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (7.79%) ARM Templates
3 5 (6.49%) Kafka
3 5 (6.49%) SAML
4 1 (1.30%) ADO
4 1 (1.30%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.30%) Middleware
4 1 (1.30%) Node.js
4 1 (1.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (15.58%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (12.99%) Data Centre
4 8 (10.39%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (10.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (9.09%) Product Ownership
6 5 (6.49%) Blog
7 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.90%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.30%) Digital Currency
8 1 (1.30%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.18%) Linux
2 7 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.79%) Windows
4 5 (6.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.30%) CentOS
5 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 52 (67.53%) DevOps
3 50 (64.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (46.75%) CI/CD
5 20 (25.97%) Agile
6 19 (24.68%) Configuration Management
7 16 (20.78%) Containerisation
8 12 (15.58%) Analytics
8 12 (15.58%) Machine Learning
8 12 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
9 11 (14.29%) Innovative Thinking
9 11 (14.29%) Migration
10 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (11.69%) Design Patterns
11 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Management
12 8 (10.39%) Artificial Intelligence
12 8 (10.39%) Data Migration
12 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (54.55%) Python
2 22 (28.57%) Java
2 22 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 20 (25.97%) Bash
3 20 (25.97%) SQL
4 16 (20.78%) Go
5 8 (10.39%) C#
5 8 (10.39%) Groovy
6 7 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.79%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.79%) Perl
7 6 (7.79%) PHP
7 6 (7.79%) Ruby
8 3 (3.90%) Bicep
9 1 (1.30%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Azure Certification
2 8 (10.39%) AWS Certification
2 8 (10.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 8 (10.39%) Security Cleared
3 7 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 7 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.79%) Degree
5 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.60%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (49.35%) Docker
2 9 (11.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (79.22%) Terraform
2 47 (61.04%) Kubernetes
3 26 (33.77%) Ansible
4 15 (19.48%) Progress Chef
4 15 (19.48%) Puppet
5 13 (16.88%) Grafana
5 13 (16.88%) Prometheus
6 9 (11.69%) Salt
7 8 (10.39%) Packer
8 5 (6.49%) Karpenter
9 3 (3.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.60%) Rundeck
11 1 (1.30%) Consul
11 1 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 16 (20.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.39%) Atlassian
2 8 (10.39%) Google
2 8 (10.39%) New Relic
3 6 (7.79%) SaltStack
4 5 (6.49%) Databricks
5 2 (2.60%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.60%) PagerDuty
5 2 (2.60%) Splunk