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 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 123 113
Rank change year-on-year +23 -10 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 35 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.44% 0.21% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 0.23% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 1 8
10th Percentile £425 - £451
25th Percentile £519 £310 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £320 £600
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -46.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £681 £330 £766
90th Percentile £725 - £783
Central London median daily rate £640 £320 £575
% change year-on-year +100.00% -44.35% -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 2,279 1,751 2,037
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 93.39% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,522 1,127 1,384
10th Percentile £356 £348 £350
25th Percentile £455 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £553
% change year-on-year - -0.45% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 18
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £17.77
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £32.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +20.37% -27.84%
75th Percentile £40.88 £62.00 £58.50
90th Percentile £59.72 £86.43 £106.00
Central London median hourly rate £23.08 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -23.16% +8.00% -20.54%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 26 (74.29%) Platform Engineering
2 23 (65.71%) Azure
3 16 (45.71%) SC Cleared
3 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
4 15 (42.86%) Terraform
5 13 (37.14%) DevOps
5 13 (37.14%) Kubernetes
6 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
8 8 (22.86%) AI
9 6 (17.14%) AWS
9 6 (17.14%) GitHub
9 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
10 5 (14.29%) GCP
10 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
11 4 (11.43%) Databricks
11 4 (11.43%) DV Cleared
11 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
11 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (11.43%) Google
11 4 (11.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (11.43%) Observability
11 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
11 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
11 4 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 3 (8.57%) Agile
12 3 (8.57%) Anthos
12 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor

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 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (65.71%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) GitHub
3 5 (14.29%) GCP
4 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (11.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.57%) Anthos
5 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Stack
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) OpenVPN
1 1 (2.86%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (2.86%) SSH
1 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Big Data
2 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.86%) Git
1 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (14.29%) Finance
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Law
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) ADO
2 1 (2.86%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.86%) boto
2 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.86%) OAuth
2 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.86%) OpenID
2 1 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.86%) vLLM
2 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) VMS
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (74.29%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (37.14%) DevOps
3 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 8 (22.86%) AI
6 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (11.43%) Observability
7 4 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (8.57%) Agile
8 3 (8.57%) Containerisation
8 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (8.57%) Incident Response
8 3 (8.57%) Machine Learning
8 3 (8.57%) Software Engineering
9 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (5.71%) Data Integration
9 2 (5.71%) Migration
9 2 (5.71%) MLOps
9 2 (5.71%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (5.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) Bash
1 3 (8.57%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.86%) Bicep
3 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) SC Cleared
1 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Docker
3 2 (5.71%) vSphere
4 1 (2.86%) UAG
4 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) Terraform
2 13 (37.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.71%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) Grafana
3 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) Istio
4 1 (2.86%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.86%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.86%) linkerd
4 1 (2.86%) SELinux
4 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Databricks
2 4 (11.43%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.86%) Splunk