Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 703 758 1000
Rank change year-on-year +55 +242 -417
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 145 156 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 108 123 125
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £92,813 £78,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £106,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +20.83%

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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £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 2 June 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +138 74 £90,000 +16.13% 12
North of England +2 42 £60,000 -13.95% 6
North West -18 23 £60,000 -17.24% 6
Midlands +2 19 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Yorkshire +36 18 £60,000 -13.60%
West Midlands -4 11 £70,000 +3.70% 3
East Midlands -8 8 £60,000 -40.00%
South West -48 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
North East -9 3 £80,000 +14.29%
South East -16 3 £60,000 -14.29% 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 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.

1 145 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 109 (75.17%) Azure
3 91 (62.76%) Terraform
4 89 (61.38%) DevOps
5 87 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 72 (49.66%) Kubernetes
7 69 (47.59%) CI/CD
8 62 (42.76%) Python
9 60 (41.38%) AWS
10 59 (40.69%) Docker
11 56 (38.62%) PowerShell
12 46 (31.72%) Bash
13 41 (28.28%) Microsoft
14 40 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
15 39 (26.90%) Social Skills
16 38 (26.21%) Ansible
17 34 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
17 34 (23.45%) Containerisation
18 30 (20.69%) Agile
18 30 (20.69%) PaaS
19 28 (19.31%) SQL
20 27 (18.62%) Azure AKS
21 26 (17.93%) Finance
22 24 (16.55%) Bicep
22 24 (16.55%) Configuration Management
22 24 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
22 24 (16.55%) Infrastructure Automation
23 23 (15.86%) GitHub
23 23 (15.86%) Jenkins
23 23 (15.86%) Continuous Integration

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 7 (4.83%) Confluence
2 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 109 (75.17%) Azure
2 60 (41.38%) AWS
3 40 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (20.69%) PaaS
5 27 (18.62%) Azure AKS
6 23 (15.86%) GitHub
7 19 (13.10%) Serverless
8 18 (12.41%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (11.72%) GCP
9 17 (11.72%) IaaS
10 14 (9.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (6.21%) Entra ID
13 8 (5.52%) Amazon S3
13 8 (5.52%) Datadog
13 8 (5.52%) Route 53
13 8 (5.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.97%) Network Security
2 9 (6.21%) Firewall
3 3 (2.07%) IPv4
3 3 (2.07%) VPN
4 1 (0.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.72%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (10.34%) MongoDB
2 15 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.66%) MySQL
4 11 (7.59%) MariaDB
4 11 (7.59%) Redis
5 9 (6.21%) BigQuery
6 8 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (5.52%) Power BI
7 4 (2.76%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 23 (15.86%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.10%) Git
3 10 (6.90%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (5.52%) JIRA
5 7 (4.83%) Bitbucket
6 6 (4.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (4.14%) Subversion
6 6 (4.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (3.45%) GitLab
8 3 (2.07%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.38%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.69%) Vagrant
General
1 39 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.93%) Finance
3 17 (11.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (11.72%) Retail
4 15 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.14%) Banking
5 6 (4.14%) Law
6 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.38%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.69%) Games
7 1 (0.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.66%) ARM Templates
2 11 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.45%) Kafka
4 4 (2.76%) SAML
5 2 (1.38%) Loki
5 2 (1.38%) REST
6 1 (0.69%) .NET
6 1 (0.69%) ADO
6 1 (0.69%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.69%) Middleware
6 1 (0.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.59%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (6.90%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.52%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.52%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.45%) Blog
8 4 (2.76%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.76%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.69%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.69%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.69%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.17%) Linux
2 14 (9.66%) Windows
3 7 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.69%) CentOS
6 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 89 (61.38%) DevOps
3 87 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (47.59%) CI/CD
5 34 (23.45%) Containerisation
5 34 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (20.69%) Agile
7 24 (16.55%) Configuration Management
7 24 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (16.55%) Infrastructure Automation
8 23 (15.86%) Continuous Integration
9 22 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 21 (14.48%) Network Virtualisation
11 18 (12.41%) Cloud Security
12 17 (11.72%) Analytics
13 16 (11.03%) Machine Learning
14 14 (9.66%) Data Protection
15 12 (8.28%) DataOps
15 12 (8.28%) Design Patterns
15 12 (8.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (42.76%) Python
2 56 (38.62%) PowerShell
3 46 (31.72%) Bash
4 28 (19.31%) SQL
5 24 (16.55%) Bicep
6 23 (15.86%) Java
7 19 (13.10%) Go
8 9 (6.21%) C#
8 9 (6.21%) Groovy
9 8 (5.52%) Ruby
10 7 (4.83%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.83%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.14%) PHP
12 5 (3.45%) Perl
13 1 (0.69%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (8.28%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.59%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.52%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (4.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.76%) Degree
8 3 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.83%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.38%) GDPR
3 2 (1.38%) QA
4 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 59 (40.69%) Docker
2 9 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (62.76%) Terraform
2 72 (49.66%) Kubernetes
3 38 (26.21%) Ansible
4 16 (11.03%) Grafana
4 16 (11.03%) Prometheus
5 13 (8.97%) Progress Chef
5 13 (8.97%) Puppet
6 9 (6.21%) Packer
7 7 (4.83%) Salt
8 6 (4.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.76%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.38%) Kibana
10 2 (1.38%) logstash
10 2 (1.38%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.69%) Consul
11 1 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 41 (28.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.97%) Google
3 8 (5.52%) New Relic
4 7 (4.83%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.14%) Databricks
5 6 (4.14%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.76%) Splunk
7 2 (1.38%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.38%) PagerDuty