Platform Engineering Contracts in Croydon

Platform Engineering
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 29 27
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 1.22% 1.71% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.80% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £528 £480
25th Percentile £563 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £496
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +8.40% -17.36%
75th Percentile £588 £544 £527
90th Percentile - £548 £559
South London median daily rate £575 £538 £496
% change year-on-year +6.98% +8.40% -17.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74 111 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 90.24% 94.87% 94.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 75 117
10th Percentile £447 £368 £448
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £567 £600
90th Percentile £700 £629 £725
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £19.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £43.84 £50.42
% change year-on-year -63.87% -13.05% +13.79%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Croydon

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Croydon

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 (100.00%) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) EDIFACT
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent