Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 343 415
Rank change year-on-year +38 +72 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 86 159 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.59% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.62% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 123 125
10th Percentile £425 £500 £450
25th Percentile £463 £550 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +3.84%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £688
90th Percentile £658 £725 £765
England median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate - £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -

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 16,628 25,761 37,096
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,029 18,663 27,061
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 £798 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +12.27%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in London

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 Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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 22 £600 -4.00% 3
South London +14 2 £588 +15.10%
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (94.19%) Platform Engineering
2 51 (59.30%) Terraform
3 38 (44.19%) Azure
4 36 (41.86%) Python
5 31 (36.05%) AWS
6 28 (32.56%) Kubernetes
7 27 (31.40%) DevOps
8 24 (27.91%) CI/CD
9 23 (26.74%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (25.58%) Docker
11 20 (23.26%) Public Sector
12 17 (19.77%) SC Cleared
12 17 (19.77%) Security Cleared
13 15 (17.44%) Linux
13 15 (17.44%) Serverless
14 13 (15.12%) ServiceNow
14 13 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (13.95%) Finance
16 11 (12.79%) Agile
16 11 (12.79%) Git
16 11 (12.79%) GCP
16 11 (12.79%) Containerisation
17 10 (11.63%) Azure AKS
17 10 (11.63%) Ansible
18 9 (10.47%) Jenkins
18 9 (10.47%) Social Skills
18 9 (10.47%) PowerShell
18 9 (10.47%) SQL
19 8 (9.30%) Configuration Management
19 8 (9.30%) Microsoft

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 3 (3.49%) Confluence
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.33%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (2.33%) nginx
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.16%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 38 (44.19%) Azure
2 31 (36.05%) AWS
3 15 (17.44%) Serverless
4 13 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (12.79%) GCP
6 10 (11.63%) Azure AKS
7 8 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (8.14%) IaaS
9 6 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.98%) PaaS
10 5 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (5.81%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (5.81%) GitHub
11 4 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) Firewall
2 4 (4.65%) IPv4
3 3 (3.49%) DNS
3 3 (3.49%) VPN
4 2 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
1 3 (3.49%) MySQL
1 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.33%) MariaDB
2 2 (2.33%) Redis
3 1 (1.16%) Adabas
3 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.16%) Bigtable
3 1 (1.16%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.16%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.16%) CouchDB
3 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Git
2 9 (10.47%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.81%) GitLab
3 5 (5.81%) JIRA
4 3 (3.49%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.49%) JMeter
5 2 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.16%) CA Gen
6 1 (1.16%) GoCD
General
1 20 (23.26%) Public Sector
2 12 (13.95%) Finance
3 9 (10.47%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.33%) Banking
6 2 (2.33%) Billing
7 1 (1.16%) Back Office
7 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.16%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) Kafka
2 5 (5.81%) Node.js
3 4 (4.65%) YAML
4 3 (3.49%) React
4 3 (3.49%) REST
5 2 (2.33%) ADO
5 2 (2.33%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.16%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.16%) AWS SAM
6 1 (1.16%) CSS
6 1 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.16%) HTML
6 1 (1.16%) JSON
6 1 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.16%) RESTful
6 1 (1.16%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.65%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.49%) Machine to Machine
4 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.33%) Replication
5 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.16%) MPEG
5 1 (1.16%) PKI
5 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) PropTech
5 1 (1.16%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.44%) Linux
2 6 (6.98%) Windows
3 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.33%) Unix
4 2 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (94.19%) Platform Engineering
2 27 (31.40%) DevOps
3 24 (27.91%) CI/CD
4 23 (26.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (12.79%) Agile
5 11 (12.79%) Containerisation
6 8 (9.30%) Configuration Management
7 7 (8.14%) Computer Science
7 7 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (6.98%) DevSecOps
8 6 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (5.81%) Analytics
9 5 (5.81%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (4.65%) Architectural Design
10 4 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (4.65%) Scrum
10 4 (4.65%) Software Engineering
10 4 (4.65%) Test Automation
10 4 (4.65%) Validation
11 3 (3.49%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 36 (41.86%) Python
2 9 (10.47%) PowerShell
2 9 (10.47%) SQL
3 8 (9.30%) Bash
4 7 (8.14%) Go
4 7 (8.14%) Java
5 5 (5.81%) C++
6 4 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.49%) C#
7 3 (3.49%) Ruby
7 3 (3.49%) Rust
8 2 (2.33%) C
8 2 (2.33%) Scala
9 1 (1.16%) Clojure
9 1 (1.16%) Groovy
9 1 (1.16%) Haskell
9 1 (1.16%) Natural
9 1 (1.16%) Perl
9 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (19.77%) SC Cleared
1 17 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.30%) Degree
3 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.33%) NIST
2 1 (1.16%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 22 (25.58%) Docker
2 5 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.16%) KVM
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (59.30%) Terraform
2 28 (32.56%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.63%) Ansible
4 6 (6.98%) Grafana
5 5 (5.81%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.65%) Argo
7 3 (3.49%) Consul
7 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.49%) Packer
7 3 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.33%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.16%) Check_MK
9 1 (1.16%) Istio
9 1 (1.16%) Puppet
9 1 (1.16%) Salt
9 1 (1.16%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 1 (1.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (15.12%) ServiceNow
2 8 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.49%) Databricks
4 2 (2.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.33%) New Relic
4 2 (2.33%) VMware
5 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.16%) CA
5 1 (1.16%) Google
5 1 (1.16%) Progress
5 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.16%) SAP
5 1 (1.16%) Trend Micro