DevOps Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Platform Engineer - DevOps
England > London

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in London is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 469 575
Rank change year-on-year +84 +106 -126
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 7 26 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.039% 0.096% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.10% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 20
10th Percentile £463 £535 £419
25th Percentile £488 £550 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% -7.89%
75th Percentile £644 £694 £636
90th Percentile £688 £716 £703
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,618 25,758 37,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,017 18,663 27,056
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.03 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Central London +38 1 - -
South London +13 1 £650 +31.08%
DevOps Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 London region featuring DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) Python
3 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
4 4 (57.14%) Git
4 4 (57.14%) Linux
5 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (42.86%) Go
5 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
6 2 (28.57%) Consul
6 2 (28.57%) Ansible
6 2 (28.57%) Kafka
6 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
6 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 2 (28.57%) nginx
6 2 (28.57%) Bash
6 2 (28.57%) Confluence
6 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 2 (28.57%) JIRA
6 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
6 2 (28.57%) IPv4
6 2 (28.57%) C
6 2 (28.57%) C++

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
1 2 (28.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) IPv4
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) AWS SAM
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Rust
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) Consul
3 2 (28.57%) Packer
4 1 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace