DevOps Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in England is £575 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 524 617 750
Rank change year-on-year +93 +133 -142
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 14 31 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.062% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.066% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 31
10th Percentile £470 £505 £419
25th Percentile £550 £550 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £630
90th Percentile £670 £713 £688
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.48% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £85.00 -

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%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in England

DevOps Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in England

DevOps Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in England

DevOps 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 DevOps 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 +82 7 £588 -2.08% 1
North of England +32 7 £550 -18.52%
North West +24 6 £600 -11.11%
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
DevOps Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) Terraform
3 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
3 11 (78.57%) Docker
3 11 (78.57%) Python
4 10 (71.43%) AWS
5 9 (64.29%) Go
6 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (50.00%) Ansible
7 7 (50.00%) Git
8 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
8 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
8 5 (35.71%) Bash
8 5 (35.71%) Azure
8 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (28.57%) Confluence
9 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
9 4 (28.57%) JIRA
9 4 (28.57%) Linux
10 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
10 3 (21.43%) Migration
10 3 (21.43%) Agile
10 3 (21.43%) SQL
10 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
10 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (21.43%) GitLab

DevOps 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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
6 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) IPv4
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
1 3 (21.43%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
3 3 (21.43%) GitLab
3 3 (21.43%) SonarQube
4 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (7.14%) Banking
1 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) SAML
2 1 (7.14%) AWS SAM
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 3 (21.43%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
6 3 (21.43%) IT Strategy
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
7 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
7 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 9 (64.29%) Go
3 5 (35.71%) Bash
4 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 3 (21.43%) SQL
5 2 (14.29%) C
5 2 (14.29%) C++
5 2 (14.29%) Java
5 2 (14.29%) Rust
6 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) NIST
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Terraform
2 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
3 7 (50.00%) Ansible
4 3 (21.43%) HP Fortify
5 2 (14.29%) Consul
5 2 (14.29%) Packer
6 1 (7.14%) Grafana
6 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace