Platform Engineering Contracts in the City of Westminster

Platform Engineering
Central London > City of Westminster

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 11 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 6.82% 5.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.50% 5.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £638 -
90th Percentile £670 - -
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 Westminster

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 Westminster with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40 35 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 90.91% 92.11% 84.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 20
10th Percentile £435 £221 £220
25th Percentile £497 £364 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £806 £647 £708
90th Percentile £956 £850 £799
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
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 Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the City of Westminster

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the City of Westminster

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Paddington - 2 £550 -
Mayfair - 1 £650 -
Platform Engineering
Central London

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) ETL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform