AWS Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
Central London > City of London

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the City of London is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - +58
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.059% - 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £455
25th Percentile £363 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £683
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.17%
75th Percentile £388 - £724
90th Percentile - - £875
Central London median daily rate £375 - £683
% change year-on-year - - +16.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,598 1,955 2,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 93.32% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,110 1,202 1,841
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £422 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £579
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.69% +0.70%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.07 £25.06 £18.06
Median hourly rate £27.75 £57.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.74% +55.41% -11.90%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £48.25
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £63.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -2.78% -13.25%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

AWS Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 29 October 2025, AWS Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) CouchDB
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Sumo Logic
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) CouchDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian