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 £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 119 138
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 9 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.53% 0.33% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.35% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile £294 £471 £413
25th Percentile £310 £546 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £725 £463
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% +56.76% -17.78%
75th Percentile £400 £756 £725
90th Percentile - £768 £875
Central London median daily rate £375 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -37.50% +26.32% -15.56%

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 1,587 1,972 2,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 93.64% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,090 1,216 1,881
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £423 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £782 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 14
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.06 £18.06
Median hourly rate £26.57 £57.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.79% +55.41% -10.30%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £48.25
90th Percentile £64.48 £137.50 £63.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% -2.78% -12.20%

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 20 October 2025.

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 20 October 2025, 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 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (66.67%) Python
4 5 (55.56%) Azure
4 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 5 (55.56%) DevOps
4 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
4 5 (55.56%) Terraform
5 4 (44.44%) Bash
5 4 (44.44%) Docker
5 4 (44.44%) GitHub
5 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
5 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
6 3 (33.33%) Argo
6 3 (33.33%) AWS
6 3 (33.33%) Linux
7 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (22.22%) Ansible
7 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (22.22%) Bicep
7 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
7 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (22.22%) Firewall
7 2 (22.22%) Grafana
7 2 (22.22%) High Availability

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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 1 (11.11%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (11.11%) Datadog
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
5 1 (11.11%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
2 1 (11.11%) CouchDB
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) Impala
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Loki
2 1 (11.11%) LangChain
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) Memcached
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) AI Agents
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
2 1 (11.11%) Market Risk
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 5 (55.56%) DevOps
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (22.22%) High Availability
6 2 (22.22%) Open Source
7 1 (11.11%) API Development
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 1 (11.11%) Design Thinking
7 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
7 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
7 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (11.11%) Server Hardening
7 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Bicep
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) EU AI Act
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Argo
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Grafana
3 2 (22.22%) Kustomize
3 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (11.11%) Kibana
4 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 1 (11.11%) OpenAI