Platform Engineer Contracts in Central London

Platform Engineer
London > Central London

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Central London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 154 170
Rank change year-on-year +44 +16 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 20 21 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.84% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.59% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 15
10th Percentile £425 £490 £450
25th Percentile £463 £544 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £628
90th Percentile £660 £725 £710
London median daily rate £575 £600 £593
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.18% +7.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,283 3,584 4,313
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.17% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,618 2,460 3,289
10th Percentile £340 £325 £362
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £798 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 55
10th Percentile £20.19 £15.83 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.13 £19.79 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.63 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £50.88
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.31 £64.45
London median hourly rate £27.00 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.94% +1.43% +8.63%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Central London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Central London

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in Central London

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +41 16 £600 -4.00% 2
City of Westminster -1 2 £550 -12.00%
Platform Engineer
London

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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 Central London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (95.00%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (80.00%) Python
2 16 (80.00%) Terraform
3 11 (55.00%) Kubernetes
4 10 (50.00%) Azure
4 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (45.00%) AWS
5 9 (45.00%) Linux
6 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (35.00%) Azure AKS
7 7 (35.00%) Docker
8 6 (30.00%) DevOps
9 5 (25.00%) GitHub
10 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
10 4 (20.00%) Serverless
10 4 (20.00%) Finance
10 4 (20.00%) Bash
10 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (15.00%) Argo
11 3 (15.00%) Architectural Design
11 3 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
11 3 (15.00%) Cypress.io
11 3 (15.00%) Kafka
11 3 (15.00%) Node.js
11 3 (15.00%) JMeter
11 3 (15.00%) SQL
11 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) Azure AKS
4 5 (25.00%) GitHub
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (20.00%) Serverless
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (10.00%) SaaS
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (5.00%) GCP
8 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (15.00%) JMeter
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Kafka
1 3 (15.00%) Node.js
1 3 (15.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (15.00%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (5.00%) MPEG
3 1 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Architectural Design
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
7 1 (5.00%) Analytics
7 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.00%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning
7 1 (5.00%) Mathematics
7 1 (5.00%) Resource Management
7 1 (5.00%) Server Building
7 1 (5.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) Clojure
4 1 (5.00%) Go
4 1 (5.00%) Groovy
4 1 (5.00%) Haskell
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Ruby
4 1 (5.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (80.00%) Terraform
2 11 (55.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Argo
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft