AWS Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in England is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 614 727
Rank change year-on-year +97 +113 -134
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 21 34 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.068% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.072% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 51
10th Percentile £458 £500 £413
25th Percentile £516 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £593
90th Percentile £630 £725 £625
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
London +92 12 £556 -14.42% 4
North of England +26 5 £550 +1.15%
South East +22 3 £538 -17.31% 1
North West +20 3 £550 -5.38%
Yorkshire +20 2 £525 +3.70%
AWS Platform Engineer
UK

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, AWS 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 England region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) AWS
1 21 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (57.14%) Terraform
3 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
4 10 (47.62%) Bash
4 10 (47.62%) Ansible
4 10 (47.62%) Docker
4 10 (47.62%) Python
5 9 (42.86%) Linux
5 9 (42.86%) DevOps
5 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
6 7 (33.33%) Git
7 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
7 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
7 6 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (28.57%) DevSecOps
7 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (23.81%) Datadog
8 5 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
8 5 (23.81%) Go
8 5 (23.81%) Agile
8 5 (23.81%) Java
9 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
9 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
9 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
9 4 (19.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (14.29%) SonarQube

AWS 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (23.81%) Datadog
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 3 (14.29%) Serverless
5 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.52%) SaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) IPv4
3 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 3 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) AWS SAM
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Debian
3 1 (4.76%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (42.86%) DevOps
4 6 (28.57%) DevSecOps
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (23.81%) Agile
5 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
6 3 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) IT Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
6 3 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (9.52%) SDLC
7 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
7 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Bash
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) Go
2 5 (23.81%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) C
5 1 (4.76%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) Groovy
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.76%) Ruby
5 1 (4.76%) Rust
5 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform
2 10 (47.62%) Ansible
3 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 3 (14.29%) HP Fortify
5 2 (9.52%) Grafana
5 2 (9.52%) Packer
5 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
5 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.76%) Consul
6 1 (4.76%) Puppet
6 1 (4.76%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
2 3 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) Trend Micro