Platform Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Central London > City of London

As of 4 July 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Platform Engineer daily rate in the City of London.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 112 156
Rank change year-on-year -9 +44 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 3 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.61% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.64% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 10
10th Percentile - £448 £413
25th Percentile - £478 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile - £681 £686
90th Percentile - £778 £703
Central London median daily rate - £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +13.64%

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 1,695 2,038 3,299
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.41% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 1,401 2,229
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £451 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +0.36% -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.33 £15.24
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -29.64% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £40.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £86.43 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in the City of London

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, 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 across the City of London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Webhook
3 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Argo
3 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Redis
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Webhook
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft