Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 110 114
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 29 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.27% 0.45% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 0.48% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 4 6
10th Percentile £496 £291 £459
25th Percentile £531 £303 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £360 £600
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -40.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £681 £400 £722
90th Percentile £716 - £769
Central London median daily rate £640 £360 £575
% change year-on-year +77.78% -37.39% -8.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,151 1,675 1,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 93.58% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 1,112 1,262
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 14
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.87
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.88
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +4.91% -25.00%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £89.06
90th Percentile £49.64 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £28.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year -15.27% +4.91% -22.86%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 2026, 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (75.86%) Azure
2 17 (58.62%) Platform Engineering
3 14 (48.28%) DevOps
4 10 (34.48%) Terraform
5 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
5 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
5 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
5 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
6 7 (24.14%) GitHub
7 5 (17.24%) AI
7 5 (17.24%) AWS
7 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (13.79%) Agile
8 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (13.79%) Machine Learning
8 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (13.79%) Observability
8 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
8 4 (13.79%) Python
8 4 (13.79%) SharePoint
8 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
9 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
9 3 (10.34%) Analytics
9 3 (10.34%) API Integration
9 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (10.34%) Databricks
9 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions

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 4 (13.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.45%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (75.86%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) GitHub
3 5 (17.24%) AWS
4 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (10.34%) Power Automate
5 3 (10.34%) PowerApps
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Databricks
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.90%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.90%) GCP
6 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (6.90%) OneDrive
6 2 (6.90%) Serverless
7 1 (3.45%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) OpenVPN
1 1 (3.45%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (3.45%) SSH
1 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) Big Data
2 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
General
1 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Law
4 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) ADO
2 1 (3.45%) boto
2 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
2 1 (3.45%) Node.js
2 1 (3.45%) OpenTofu
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) vLLM
2 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.90%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Genomics
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Platform Engineering
2 14 (48.28%) DevOps
3 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (17.24%) AI
4 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (13.79%) Agile
5 4 (13.79%) Machine Learning
5 4 (13.79%) Observability
5 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
6 3 (10.34%) Analytics
6 3 (10.34%) API Integration
6 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
6 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
7 2 (6.90%) Change Control
7 2 (6.90%) Data Protection
7 2 (6.90%) Test Automation
7 2 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) Bash
2 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) Bicep
3 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) vSphere
3 1 (3.45%) UAG
3 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Kubeflow
3 1 (3.45%) SELinux
3 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.90%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Nexthink
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk