Platform Engineer Contracts in Croydon

Platform Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Croydon is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 39 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 0.70% 1.10% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 1.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% - -
South London median daily rate £588 £510 -
% change year-on-year +15.10% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 141 158 158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.60% 87.29% 96.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 127 127
10th Percentile £360 £408 £340
25th Percentile £425 £478 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £630 £682 £700
South London median daily rate £500 £525 £505
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.96% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £17.00 - -
25th Percentile £18.25 - -
Median hourly rate £23.50 - -
75th Percentile £25.25 - -
90th Percentile £30.23 - -
South London median hourly rate £23.50 £23.46 £45.74
% change year-on-year +0.17% -48.70% -1.47%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Croydon

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Croydon

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 Croydon region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform