Platform Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 149 165
Rank change year-on-year +35 +16 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 16 16 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.73% 0.45% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.47% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 16
10th Percentile £425 £474 £456
25th Percentile £444 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +0.46%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £632
90th Percentile £695 £706 £700
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

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 2,073 3,371 3,974
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.05% 95.06% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 2,287 3,001
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £593 £560
% change year-on-year -7.17% +5.80% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -2.78% +105.71%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%

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.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer 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.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer 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 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in the City of London

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities 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.

1 15 (93.75%) Platform Engineering
2 14 (87.50%) Python
2 14 (87.50%) Terraform
3 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
4 8 (50.00%) Azure
5 7 (43.75%) AWS
5 7 (43.75%) Linux
5 7 (43.75%) Docker
5 7 (43.75%) Azure AKS
6 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (25.00%) Serverless
7 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
7 4 (25.00%) DevOps
7 4 (25.00%) Finance
7 4 (25.00%) Bash
8 3 (18.75%) JMeter
8 3 (18.75%) Node.js
8 3 (18.75%) Kafka
8 3 (18.75%) GitHub
8 3 (18.75%) SQL
8 3 (18.75%) Machine to Machine
8 3 (18.75%) React
8 3 (18.75%) Argo
8 3 (18.75%) Architectural Design
8 3 (18.75%) Azure Functions
8 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure AKS
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (25.00%) Serverless
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Functions
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (18.75%) GitHub
4 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Cypress.io
1 3 (18.75%) JMeter
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
1 3 (18.75%) Node.js
1 3 (18.75%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (18.75%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (6.25%) MPEG
3 1 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Architectural Design
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
6 1 (6.25%) Design Patterns
6 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps
6 1 (6.25%) Generative AI
6 1 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (6.25%) LLM
6 1 (6.25%) Mathematics
6 1 (6.25%) Resource Management
6 1 (6.25%) Server Building
6 1 (6.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Clojure
4 1 (6.25%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) Groovy
4 1 (6.25%) Haskell
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby
4 1 (6.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (87.50%) Terraform
2 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
3 3 (18.75%) Argo
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft