Platform Engineering Contracts in Central London

Platform Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 107 144
Rank change year-on-year -3 +37 0
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 15 30 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.79% 1.25% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.38% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile £556 £463 £504
25th Percentile £650 £550 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £613 £631
Median % change year-on-year +16.73% -2.97% -2.88%
75th Percentile £761 £781 £723
90th Percentile £826 £925 £768
London median daily rate £556 £600 £630
% change year-on-year -7.29% -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,764 2,175 3,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.48% 90.78% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,537 2,302
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £799 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 28
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.03 £16.33
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £43.97 £32.09 £53.19
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.65 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £28.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +13.12% -28.21% +9.86%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Central London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Central London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Central London

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 June 2025. 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
City of London -5 15 £715 +14.40% 17
Platform Engineering
London

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (20.00%) SaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (13.33%) Prefect
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) eggPlant
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Lead
1 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Principal Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) GraphQL
1 2 (13.33%) Jest
1 2 (13.33%) Node.js
1 2 (13.33%) React
1 2 (13.33%) WPF
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.67%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
1 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Secure Coding
5 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (6.67%) Identity Management
6 1 (6.67%) Project Management
6 1 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Go
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Rust
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) Bicep
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Argo
3 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Rapid7