Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 113 103
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 +62
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 19 9 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.04% 0.44% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.47% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 24
10th Percentile £331 £432 £425
25th Percentile £400 £513 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £750 £619
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +21.21% +6.45%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £875
90th Percentile £740 £803 £921
Central London median daily rate £475 £750 £619
% change year-on-year -36.67% +21.21% +3.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,651 1,902 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.57% 92.06% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,162 1,616
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £421 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -1.71%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £790 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Platform Engineering

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 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) IIS
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.26%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) GitHub
2 7 (36.84%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
4 2 (10.53%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.26%) Collibra
5 1 (5.26%) Datadog
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (5.26%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.26%) CouchDB
2 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) Impala
2 1 (5.26%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Redis
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Jaeger
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Games
5 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Loki
1 3 (15.79%) OAuth
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) Memcached
3 1 (5.26%) OpenID
3 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Replication
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) CMDB
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.26%) FMCG
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Market Risk
3 1 (5.26%) Media Streaming
3 1 (5.26%) Online Games
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
2 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (31.58%) AI
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
4 5 (26.32%) High Availability
5 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.79%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (15.79%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) Data Science
7 2 (10.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) SDLC
7 2 (10.53%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Bash
2 3 (15.79%) Go
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) PHP
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) VCAP
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) HDFS
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Terraform
2 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (21.05%) Argo
4 3 (15.79%) Ansible
4 3 (15.79%) Grafana
4 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
5 2 (10.53%) Kustomize
6 1 (5.26%) Karpenter
6 1 (5.26%) Kibana
6 1 (5.26%) PowerCLI
6 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.26%) WMI
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Databricks
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Citrix
4 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.26%) Informatica
4 1 (5.26%) Pure Storage
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) Spotify
4 1 (5.26%) VMware