Platform Engineering Contracts in Central London

Platform Engineering
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 145 138
Rank change year-on-year +42 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 33 30 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.36% 0.79% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 0.86% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 50
10th Percentile £425 £520 £500
25th Percentile £506 £600 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% +14.79%
75th Percentile £863 £725 £700
90th Percentile £925 £760 £763
London median daily rate £600 £633 £600
% change year-on-year -5.27% +5.56% +10.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,196 3,473 4,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.59% 91.23% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,564 2,356 3,186
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +13.85%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Central London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Central London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Central London

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the Central London region over the 6 months to 12 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 +46 28 £613 -7.55% 11
City of Westminster 0 3 £550 -12.00%
Platform Engineering
London

Platform Engineering
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 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) Azure
2 12 (36.36%) AWS
3 9 (27.27%) Azure AKS
3 9 (27.27%) GitHub
4 6 (18.18%) Serverless
5 5 (15.15%) Azure Functions
5 5 (15.15%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.06%) GCP
7 2 (6.06%) SaaS
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (3.03%) Datadog
8 1 (3.03%) PaaS
8 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) Firewall
2 4 (12.12%) FTP
2 4 (12.12%) HTTP
2 4 (12.12%) ICMP
2 4 (12.12%) POP3
2 4 (12.12%) SMTP
2 4 (12.12%) SSH
2 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.06%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) DNS
4 1 (3.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) Airbyte
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.03%) Flink
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Cypress.io
1 5 (15.15%) JMeter
2 3 (9.09%) GitLab
2 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) Git
4 1 (3.03%) Gradle
4 1 (3.03%) JUnit
4 1 (3.03%) Maven
4 1 (3.03%) Spinnaker
4 1 (3.03%) TestNG
4 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
2 6 (18.18%) Banking
3 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (57.58%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) ArcSight Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) SIEM Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Blockchain Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Head of DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Kafka
2 5 (15.15%) Node.js
2 5 (15.15%) React
3 4 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.03%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.03%) http4s
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.03%) PySpark
4 1 (3.03%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) Spring
4 1 (3.03%) Web Services
4 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
3 3 (9.09%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (3.03%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 12 (36.36%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
2 12 (36.36%) DevOps
3 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (15.15%) Architectural Design
4 5 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
5 4 (12.12%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (12.12%) Security Monitoring
5 4 (12.12%) SIEM
5 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security
6 3 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 3 (9.09%) DevSecOps
7 2 (6.06%) Agile
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.06%) Task Automation
7 2 (6.06%) Use Case
7 2 (6.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) Bash
2 4 (12.12%) Java
3 3 (9.09%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) Kotlin
4 2 (6.06%) Scala
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) Clojure
5 1 (3.03%) Groovy
5 1 (3.03%) Haskell
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) Ruby
5 1 (3.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Degree
1 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (63.64%) Terraform
2 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (18.18%) Argo
4 4 (12.12%) Kibana
4 4 (12.12%) logstash
4 4 (12.12%) QRadar
5 2 (6.06%) Ansible
6 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) ArcSight
1 4 (12.12%) Splunk
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Aruba
3 1 (3.03%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (3.03%) New Relic