Platform Engineering Contracts in London

Platform Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 233 289
Rank change year-on-year -17 +56 +7
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 147 308 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.83% 1.14% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.25% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 247 284
10th Percentile £425 £500 £463
25th Percentile £500 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £633 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £695
90th Percentile £755 £863 £775
England median daily rate £582 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £66.00 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% - -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £78.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +41 33 £600 -4.95% 7
South London +6 3 £550 +10.92%
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 5 (3.40%) Confluence
2 4 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.04%) nginx
4 2 (1.36%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.36%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (39.46%) Azure
2 53 (36.05%) AWS
3 27 (18.37%) Serverless
4 22 (14.97%) GCP
5 20 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (12.24%) GitHub
7 15 (10.20%) Azure AKS
8 13 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.80%) Azure Functions
11 9 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (6.12%) IaaS
12 8 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (5.44%) PaaS
12 8 (5.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (4.08%) Amazon S3
13 6 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.20%) Firewall
2 6 (4.08%) DNS
2 6 (4.08%) FTP
2 6 (4.08%) VPN
3 5 (3.40%) IPv4
3 5 (3.40%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.72%) HTTP
4 4 (2.72%) ICMP
4 4 (2.72%) POP3
4 4 (2.72%) SMTP
4 4 (2.72%) SSH
5 2 (1.36%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.36%) Network Security
5 2 (1.36%) VLAN
5 2 (1.36%) VSAN
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
6 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.68%) NAS
6 1 (0.68%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.04%) Airbyte
2 3 (2.04%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.04%) Flink
2 3 (2.04%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.04%) MySQL
3 2 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.68%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.68%) Metadata
4 1 (0.68%) Redis
4 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.68%) Scylla
4 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (19.73%) Jenkins
2 26 (17.69%) GitLab
3 16 (10.88%) Git
4 9 (6.12%) Cypress.io
4 9 (6.12%) JMeter
5 5 (3.40%) JIRA
6 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.68%) CA Gen
6 1 (0.68%) GoCD
6 1 (0.68%) Gradle
6 1 (0.68%) JUnit
6 1 (0.68%) Maven
6 1 (0.68%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.68%) TestNG
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.97%) Finance
2 22 (14.97%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.80%) Banking
4 7 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.04%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.36%) Billing
6 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.36%) Marketing
6 2 (1.36%) Retail
7 1 (0.68%) Back Office
7 1 (0.68%) Law
7 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 81 (55.10%) Platform Engineer
2 40 (27.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 27 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (14.29%) Senior
5 18 (12.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (10.88%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (9.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 13 (8.84%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (7.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.80%) Developer
10 10 (6.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 9 (6.12%) Lead
12 7 (4.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.76%) Python Developer
12 7 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 6 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (4.08%) Software Engineer
14 5 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 5 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.93%) Kafka
2 18 (12.24%) React
3 15 (10.20%) Node.js
4 7 (4.76%) CSS
4 7 (4.76%) HTML
4 7 (4.76%) REST
5 6 (4.08%) Django
5 6 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.40%) YAML
7 3 (2.04%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.04%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.36%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.36%) http4s
8 2 (1.36%) JSON
8 2 (1.36%) OAuth
8 2 (1.36%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.36%) OpenID
8 2 (1.36%) VML
9 1 (0.68%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.76%) Machine to Machine
2 7 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.08%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.40%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.04%) Replication
7 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.36%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.36%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) Clustering
8 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) PropTech
8 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (27.89%) Linux
2 8 (5.44%) Windows
3 7 (4.76%) Unix
4 4 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (2.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.36%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (40.82%) CI/CD
2 55 (37.41%) DevOps
3 31 (21.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (17.69%) Agile
5 19 (12.93%) Configuration Management
5 19 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (11.56%) Computer Science
7 16 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (9.52%) Software Engineering
9 12 (8.16%) Analytics
9 12 (8.16%) Containerisation
9 12 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (7.48%) Machine Learning
10 11 (7.48%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (5.44%) Architectural Design
11 8 (5.44%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (5.44%) Data Science
11 8 (5.44%) DevSecOps
11 8 (5.44%) Microservices
12 7 (4.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 58 (39.46%) Python
2 24 (16.33%) JavaScript
3 15 (10.20%) SQL
4 14 (9.52%) C#
4 14 (9.52%) Java
5 13 (8.84%) PowerShell
6 12 (8.16%) Bash
7 8 (5.44%) Go
8 6 (4.08%) Rust
9 4 (2.72%) Scala
9 4 (2.72%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.04%) C
10 3 (2.04%) C++
10 3 (2.04%) Clojure
10 3 (2.04%) Haskell
10 3 (2.04%) Ruby
11 2 (1.36%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) Natural
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (23.13%) SC Cleared
1 34 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.52%) Degree
3 12 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.72%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.36%) CCNP
6 2 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.36%) NIST
2 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
2 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
2 1 (0.68%) PMO
2 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 32 (21.77%) Docker
2 7 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.04%) KVM
5 3 (2.04%) vSphere
6 2 (1.36%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 83 (56.46%) Terraform
2 49 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 26 (17.69%) Ansible
4 11 (7.48%) Argo
5 6 (4.08%) Grafana
5 6 (4.08%) Packer
6 4 (2.72%) Consul
6 4 (2.72%) Kibana
6 4 (2.72%) logstash
6 4 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.72%) QRadar
7 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.36%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.68%) Puppet
9 1 (0.68%) WMI
9 1 (0.68%) WSUS
9 1 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 14 (9.52%) ServiceNow
2 5 (3.40%) VMware
3 4 (2.72%) ArcSight
3 4 (2.72%) SAP
3 4 (2.72%) Splunk
4 3 (2.04%) Databricks
4 3 (2.04%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.04%) New Relic
5 2 (1.36%) Adobe
5 2 (1.36%) Aruba
5 2 (1.36%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (1.36%) Cisco
5 2 (1.36%) Google
5 2 (1.36%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.36%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.36%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.68%) CA
6 1 (0.68%) Dell
6 1 (0.68%) Intel