Platform Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 96 141
Rank change year-on-year -9 +45 +7
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 16 27 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.93% 1.24% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.38% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 13
10th Percentile £556 £463 £460
25th Percentile £650 £493 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £625 £683
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -8.42% +8.25%
75th Percentile £741 £800 £731
90th Percentile £795 £925 £770
Central London median daily rate £713 £613 £631
% change year-on-year +16.33% -2.97% +0.12%

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 1,616 1,962 3,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.63% 90.46% 91.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,029 1,367 2,112
10th Percentile £354 £359 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £815
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 24
10th Percentile £19.25 £19.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £52.50 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £48.57 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

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 17 June 2025.

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 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (18.75%) SaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) Prefect
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Redis
2 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) eggPlant
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 3 (18.75%) Banking
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
1 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Principal Software Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) QA Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Node.js
2 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 2 (12.50%) Jest
2 2 (12.50%) React
2 2 (12.50%) WPF
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.25%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (6.25%) LDAP
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
1 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) CMDB
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Observability
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (12.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Secure Coding
5 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (6.25%) Security Monitoring
6 1 (6.25%) Security Operations
6 1 (6.25%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) Go
4 2 (12.50%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) Rust
4 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) Bicep
5 1 (6.25%) C++
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) GRC
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Argo
2 2 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) Rapid7
1 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow