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 £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
28 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 114 107
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 18 4 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.84% 0.23% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.25% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 10
10th Percentile £413 £416 £448
25th Percentile £427 £431 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £484 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.71% -19.27% +9.09%
75th Percentile £681 £607 £648
90th Percentile £705 £745 £688
Central London median daily rate £575 £484 £600
% change year-on-year +18.71% -19.27% -2.04%

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 2,021 1,603 2,197
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 92.66% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,023 1,564
10th Percentile £350 £363 £340
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.59% -5.67%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 17
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £19.19 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +41.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £48.67 £45.23 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £76.13 £49.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £26.56
% change year-on-year -13.07% +13.08% -24.11%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 15 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
2 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
3 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 10 (55.56%) Terraform
4 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
6 6 (33.33%) AWS
6 6 (33.33%) Azure
6 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 6 (33.33%) DevOps
6 6 (33.33%) Docker
6 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
7 5 (27.78%) GitHub
8 4 (22.22%) AI
8 4 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
8 4 (22.22%) GCP
8 4 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (22.22%) Google
8 4 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
9 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (16.67%) Ansible
9 3 (16.67%) Anthos
9 3 (16.67%) Bash
9 3 (16.67%) Observability
9 3 (16.67%) Python
10 2 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora

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 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) GitHub
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 4 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (16.67%) Anthos
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Stack
5 2 (11.11%) Datadog
5 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.11%) Sumo Logic
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) CouchDB
2 1 (5.56%) Metadata
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.56%) Memcached
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.56%) OpenID
1 1 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) AI Agents
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) AI
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (16.67%) Observability
7 2 (11.11%) Code Quality
7 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (11.11%) Migration
7 2 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (11.11%) Server Hardening
8 1 (5.56%) High Availability
8 1 (5.56%) Microservices
8 1 (5.56%) Performance Improvement
8 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Bash
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Terraform
2 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Istio
4 1 (5.56%) Kustomize
4 1 (5.56%) linkerd
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
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