Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in England is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 535 664
Rank change year-on-year +54 +129 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 61 104 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 88 97
10th Percentile £382 £479 £475
25th Percentile £463 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £594 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +3.26% +6.48%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £645 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

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

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +68 40 £525 -12.50% 11
North of England +22 9 £550 -4.35% 6
South East -8 6 £538 -10.42% 2
Yorkshire +18 5 £500 -2.91%
North West +12 4 £550 -5.38% 6
West Midlands - 4 £375 - 3
Midlands - 4 £375 - 3
South West +8 1 £500 -13.04% 2
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 across the England region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (96.72%) Platform Engineering
2 48 (78.69%) Terraform
3 33 (54.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (54.10%) DevOps
4 32 (52.46%) AWS
5 29 (47.54%) Azure
5 29 (47.54%) CI/CD
6 26 (42.62%) Kubernetes
6 26 (42.62%) Python
7 20 (32.79%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (32.79%) Docker
8 17 (27.87%) Ansible
9 16 (26.23%) Git
10 15 (24.59%) Agile
11 14 (22.95%) Linux
11 14 (22.95%) Bash
11 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
12 13 (21.31%) Containerisation
12 13 (21.31%) Serverless
12 13 (21.31%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
13 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
14 11 (18.03%) SQL
14 11 (18.03%) GCP
15 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
15 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (16.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (14.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (14.75%) Configuration Management

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 3 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.92%) nginx
2 2 (3.28%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (52.46%) AWS
2 29 (47.54%) Azure
3 20 (32.79%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (21.31%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (21.31%) Serverless
5 11 (18.03%) GCP
6 10 (16.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (14.75%) PaaS
7 9 (14.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (13.11%) IaaS
9 7 (11.48%) Amazon S3
9 7 (11.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (9.84%) Azure AKS
11 5 (8.20%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (6.56%) Datadog
12 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
12 4 (6.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) DNS
2 6 (9.84%) Firewall
3 4 (6.56%) IPv4
4 3 (4.92%) VPN
5 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (4.92%) Data Lake
1 3 (4.92%) DynamoDB
1 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
1 3 (4.92%) MySQL
1 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.92%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.28%) MariaDB
2 2 (3.28%) Redis
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.64%) Bigtable
3 1 (1.64%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.64%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.64%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 16 (26.23%) Git
2 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.20%) GitLab
4 4 (6.56%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.28%) JIRA
5 2 (3.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.64%) GoCD
6 1 (1.64%) Snyk
General
1 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Finance
2 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.28%) Billing
5 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) YAML
2 4 (6.56%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (4.92%) ARM Templates
3 3 (4.92%) JSON
4 2 (3.28%) Kafka
4 2 (3.28%) Node.js
4 2 (3.28%) REST
5 1 (1.64%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.64%) Django
5 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.64%) HornetQ
5 1 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.64%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.64%) PropTech
4 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.95%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Debian
3 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Unix
4 1 (1.64%) Windows
4 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (96.72%) Platform Engineering
2 33 (54.10%) DevOps
2 33 (54.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (47.54%) CI/CD
4 15 (24.59%) Agile
5 13 (21.31%) Containerisation
6 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (14.75%) Configuration Management
8 7 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (9.84%) DevSecOps
9 6 (9.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (8.20%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (6.56%) Cloud Operations
11 4 (6.56%) Computer Science
11 4 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (6.56%) Identity Access Management
11 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Management
11 4 (6.56%) Test Automation
12 3 (4.92%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (42.62%) Python
2 14 (22.95%) Bash
3 11 (18.03%) SQL
4 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
5 9 (14.75%) Go
6 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.92%) Java
8 2 (3.28%) Bicep
8 2 (3.28%) C
8 2 (3.28%) C++
8 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.28%) Ruby
8 2 (3.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
1 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) Azure Certification
3 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.56%) Degree
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 20 (32.79%) Docker
2 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.28%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.64%) Varnish
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (78.69%) Terraform
2 26 (42.62%) Kubernetes
3 17 (27.87%) Ansible
4 7 (11.48%) Grafana
5 6 (9.84%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.92%) Consul
6 3 (4.92%) HP Fortify
6 3 (4.92%) Packer
7 2 (3.28%) Argo
8 1 (1.64%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.64%) Istio
8 1 (1.64%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.64%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Splunk
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.92%) New Relic
3 3 (4.92%) VMware
4 2 (3.28%) Databricks
4 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.28%) Google
5 1 (1.64%) BMC
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco
5 1 (1.64%) Remedy
5 1 (1.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) webMethods