Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in the North West

Cloud Platform Engineer
England > North West

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 269 322
Rank change year-on-year -10 +53 -106
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 24 26 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.36% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.40% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 16 22 12
10th Percentile - £53,750 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,974 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.46% +18.29% +26.32%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,241 £68,125
90th Percentile £76,250 £102,500 £82,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +33.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 10,318 6,520 9,311
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.97% 89.43% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,729 3,969 5,431
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,228 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,351 £40,834 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,550 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,640 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.42% +1.07% +9.09%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the North West

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in the North West

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in the North West

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Manchester +11 23 £60,000 -15.46% 6
Lancashire - 1 - -
Cloud Platform Engineer
England

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 4 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 North West region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 22 (91.67%) Azure
3 16 (66.67%) DevOps
3 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 15 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 12 (50.00%) DataOps
6 11 (45.83%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (45.83%) Analytics
7 10 (41.67%) Machine Learning
7 10 (41.67%) Python
7 10 (41.67%) Terraform
8 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
8 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (29.17%) Data Engineering
10 6 (25.00%) Databricks
10 6 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
10 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
10 6 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (25.00%) Bash
10 6 (25.00%) IaaS
10 6 (25.00%) Windows
11 5 (20.83%) ITIL
11 5 (20.83%) ETL
11 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (20.83%) Firewall
11 5 (20.83%) Identity Management

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (91.67%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 6 (25.00%) IaaS
4 5 (20.83%) GCP
4 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
5 4 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (16.67%) PaaS
6 3 (12.50%) GitHub
7 2 (8.33%) Anthos
7 2 (8.33%) Apigee
7 2 (8.33%) Datadog
7 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (8.33%) Stackdriver
8 1 (4.17%) AWS
8 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
2 4 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
1 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 16 (66.67%) DevOps
3 15 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (50.00%) DataOps
5 11 (45.83%) Analytics
6 10 (41.67%) Machine Learning
7 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (29.17%) Data Engineering
9 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (20.83%) Business Continuity
10 5 (20.83%) Data Science
10 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (20.83%) ETL
10 5 (20.83%) Identity Management
10 5 (20.83%) Information Security
10 5 (20.83%) ITIL
10 5 (20.83%) MLOps
10 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (20.83%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Python
2 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 6 (25.00%) Bash
4 5 (20.83%) Bicep
5 4 (16.67%) Go
6 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Ansible
3 3 (12.50%) Grafana
3 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.33%) Rundeck
5 1 (4.17%) Packer
5 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Databricks
3 4 (16.67%) Google
4 2 (8.33%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (8.33%) New Relic
4 2 (8.33%) PagerDuty
4 2 (8.33%) Splunk
5 1 (4.17%) Atlassian