The median contractor rate for a Platform Engineer was £525 per day in advertised job vacancies in the City of London during the 6 months to 18 September 2020.
The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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
1,648
5,889
6,634
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title
92.85%
94.04%
94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted
1,168
4,609
5,231
Median daily rate
£500
£513
£500
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.44%
+2.50%
-
10th Percentile
£313
£319
£313
90th Percentile
£675
£675
£675
Central London median daily rate
£500
£500
£500
Number of hourly rates quoted
30
77
127
Median hourly rate
£35.75
£20.00
£18.70
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.75%
+6.95%
+3.31%
10th Percentile
£16.75
£11.25
£13.00
90th Percentile
£52.90
£53.75
£25.50
Median hourly rate
£35.50
£20.00
£18.70
% change year-on-year
+77.50%
+6.95%
+0.01%
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.
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.
Platform Engineer Skill Set Top 27 Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London
For the 6 months to 18 September 2020, Platform Engineer contract jobs required the following IT skills 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.
Platform Engineer Skill Set Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
