Senior Platform Engineer Contracts

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in the UK is £630 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 677 830
Rank change year-on-year +105 +153 -167
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 19 30 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.050% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.053% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 22
10th Percentile £506 £525 £479
25th Percentile £525 £591 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £619 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +3.13% -17.24%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £666
90th Percentile £655 £750 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £613 £525
% change year-on-year +6.12% +16.67% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,491 57,026 85,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,430 39,779 59,788
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,635 1,621 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +109 14 £600 -3.03% 24
Work from Home +117 10 £650 +8.33% 14
London +101 10 £600 -5.88% 16
UK excluding London +46 3 £650 +6.12% 10
North of England +26 2 £663 +15.22% 2
North West +13 2 £663 +20.45% 1
South West +21 1 £500 -27.27% 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (73.68%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (57.89%) AWS
3 9 (47.37%) Azure
3 9 (47.37%) Terraform
4 8 (42.11%) Python
4 8 (42.11%) GCP
4 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
5 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
6 6 (31.58%) Serverless
6 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (31.58%) Docker
6 6 (31.58%) DevOps
6 6 (31.58%) Go
7 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
7 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
7 5 (26.32%) Agile
7 5 (26.32%) Degree
7 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
8 4 (21.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
8 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
8 4 (21.05%) Git
8 4 (21.05%) Scrum
8 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (21.05%) Open Source
8 4 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
2 9 (47.37%) Azure
3 8 (42.11%) GCP
4 6 (31.58%) Serverless
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (21.05%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (21.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (15.79%) GitHub
6 3 (15.79%) PaaS
7 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
7 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (10.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) Snyk
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Billing
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
1 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
4 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
5 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (21.05%) Open Source
5 4 (21.05%) Scrum
6 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
6 3 (15.79%) Migration
7 2 (10.53%) API Management
7 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (10.53%) GitOps
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Go
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
1 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Terraform
2 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Argo
3 1 (5.26%) Consul
3 1 (5.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Progress
2 1 (5.26%) VMware