Platform Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 148 134
Rank change year-on-year +46 -14 +9
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 28 25 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.28% 0.70% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.77% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 49
10th Percentile £425 £514 £500
25th Percentile £463 £539 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +1.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £925 £736 £700
90th Percentile - £773 £763
Central London median daily rate £600 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% +14.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,972 3,266 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 91.46% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,394 2,203 2,946
10th Percentile £352 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £688
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 43
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
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 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) Azure AKS
3 7 (25.00%) GitHub
4 6 (21.43%) Serverless
5 5 (17.86%) Azure Functions
5 5 (17.86%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (7.14%) GCP
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.57%) Datadog
8 1 (3.57%) IaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.57%) PaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) Firewall
2 4 (14.29%) FTP
2 4 (14.29%) HTTP
2 4 (14.29%) ICMP
2 4 (14.29%) POP3
2 4 (14.29%) SMTP
2 4 (14.29%) SSH
2 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.14%) VPN
4 1 (3.57%) DNS
4 1 (3.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.57%) Airbyte
3 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Flink
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Cypress.io
1 5 (17.86%) JMeter
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
2 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (3.57%) Gradle
4 1 (3.57%) JUnit
4 1 (3.57%) Maven
4 1 (3.57%) Spinnaker
4 1 (3.57%) TestNG
4 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (35.71%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Banking
3 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) ArcSight Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Modeller
6 1 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Kafka
2 5 (17.86%) Node.js
2 5 (17.86%) React
3 4 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.57%) http4s
4 1 (3.57%) JSON
4 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) Spring
4 1 (3.57%) Web Services
4 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (3.57%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 10 (35.71%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (17.86%) Architectural Design
4 5 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
5 4 (14.29%) SIEM
5 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security
6 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 2 (7.14%) Agile
7 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
7 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.14%) Server Building
7 2 (7.14%) Use Case
7 2 (7.14%) Validation
8 1 (3.57%) API Testing
8 1 (3.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) Bash
2 4 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) Clojure
5 1 (3.57%) Groovy
5 1 (3.57%) Haskell
5 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) Ruby
5 1 (3.57%) Rust
5 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (67.86%) Terraform
2 15 (53.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (21.43%) Argo
4 4 (14.29%) Kibana
4 4 (14.29%) logstash
4 4 (14.29%) QRadar
5 2 (7.14%) Ansible
6 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) ArcSight
1 4 (14.29%) Splunk
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Aruba
3 1 (3.57%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (3.57%) New Relic