Platform Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 201 234
Rank change year-on-year -55 +33 -16
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 94 309 510
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 1.23% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.38% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 276 418
10th Percentile £439 £503 £444
25th Percentile £468 £531 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £618 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +7.39% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £627
90th Percentile £701 £863 £704
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.56% +1.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,243 22,460 40,020
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,870 29,041
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Platform Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering.

Platform Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Platform Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering.

Platform Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (7.45%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.06%) nginx
3 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (42.55%) AWS
2 37 (39.36%) Azure
3 17 (18.09%) GCP
4 14 (14.89%) Serverless
5 13 (13.83%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (9.57%) GitHub
8 8 (8.51%) PaaS
9 6 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.38%) IaaS
10 5 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (5.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (4.26%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.26%) Power Platform
11 4 (4.26%) Snowflake
11 4 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (3.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) Firewall
2 5 (5.32%) DNS
3 3 (3.19%) IPv4
3 3 (3.19%) VPN
4 2 (2.13%) DSL
5 1 (1.06%) FTP
5 1 (1.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.19%) Airbyte
3 3 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.19%) Flink
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.13%) MySQL
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.06%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.06%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.06%) Metadata
5 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (18.09%) Jenkins
2 16 (17.02%) GitLab
3 14 (14.89%) Git
4 9 (9.57%) JIRA
5 3 (3.19%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.13%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.13%) Mocha
6 2 (2.13%) Snyk
6 2 (2.13%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.13%) Terragrunt
6 2 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.06%) Hudson
7 1 (1.06%) JMeter
7 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.06%) Vagrant
General
1 23 (24.47%) Public Sector
2 18 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Finance
4 7 (7.45%) Banking
5 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.26%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (1.06%) Electronics
7 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (63.83%) Platform Engineer
2 27 (28.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (17.02%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (13.83%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 13 (13.83%) Developer
6 11 (11.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Senior
9 7 (7.45%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (7.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) Network Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) Python Developer
10 6 (6.38%) Unix Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Full Stack Developer
11 5 (5.32%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.83%) React
2 7 (7.45%) CSS
2 7 (7.45%) HTML
3 6 (6.38%) Django
4 5 (5.32%) Node.js
5 4 (4.26%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.26%) YAML
6 3 (3.19%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.19%) Jest
6 3 (3.19%) Kafka
6 3 (3.19%) Redux
7 2 (2.13%) .NET
7 2 (2.13%) AWS SAM
7 2 (2.13%) JSON
8 1 (1.06%) OAuth
8 1 (1.06%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.06%) REST
8 1 (1.06%) SAML
8 1 (1.06%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Algorithms
1 7 (7.45%) Data Structures
1 7 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.06%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.06%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (1.06%) NHS
5 1 (1.06%) PropTech
5 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.21%) Linux
2 10 (10.64%) Unix
3 4 (4.26%) Windows
4 3 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (45.74%) CI/CD
2 41 (43.62%) DevOps
3 25 (26.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (14.89%) Agile
4 14 (14.89%) Computer Science
5 12 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (10.64%) GitOps
7 9 (9.57%) Data Science
8 8 (8.51%) Configuration Management
8 8 (8.51%) Containerisation
8 8 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (7.45%) Data Engineering
9 7 (7.45%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (7.45%) Machine Learning
10 6 (6.38%) OO
10 6 (6.38%) Open Source
10 6 (6.38%) Software Architecture
10 6 (6.38%) Software Engineering
11 5 (5.32%) Microservices
11 5 (5.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (42.55%) Python
2 13 (13.83%) JavaScript
3 12 (12.77%) Java
4 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
5 8 (8.51%) Bash
5 8 (8.51%) Go
5 8 (8.51%) SQL
6 6 (6.38%) Perl
6 6 (6.38%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.32%) Ruby
7 5 (5.32%) Scala
8 3 (3.19%) Bicep
8 3 (3.19%) C#
9 2 (2.13%) Rust
10 1 (1.06%) C
10 1 (1.06%) C++
10 1 (1.06%) Clojure
10 1 (1.06%) Groovy
10 1 (1.06%) Haskell
10 1 (1.06%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) Degree
4 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) NCSC
2 2 (2.13%) QA
2 2 (2.13%) SLA
3 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.06%) NIST
3 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (18.09%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.19%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (47.87%) Terraform
2 34 (36.17%) Kubernetes
3 13 (13.83%) Ansible
4 6 (6.38%) Grafana
5 4 (4.26%) Argo
5 4 (4.26%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.26%) Puppet
6 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.13%) CFEngine
7 2 (2.13%) Consul
7 2 (2.13%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.13%) Kibana
7 2 (2.13%) Packer
7 2 (2.13%) PowerBroker
7 2 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.06%) FreeIPA
8 1 (1.06%) Icinga
8 1 (1.06%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.06%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (15.96%) ServiceNow
2 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.51%) Databricks
4 3 (3.19%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.19%) BMC
4 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.19%) VMware
5 2 (2.13%) Google
5 2 (2.13%) SAP
6 1 (1.06%) Adobe
6 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.06%) New Relic
6 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.06%) Remedy
6 1 (1.06%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.06%) Splunk
6 1 (1.06%) UiPath