Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Platform Engineering
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 2.34% - 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% - 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £480 - £450
25th Percentile £483 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £524 - £638
90th Percentile £529 - -
South London median daily rate £503 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -8.64% -6.38% -2.08%

All Process & 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 151 96 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 88.30% 92.31% 93.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 75 94
10th Percentile £456 £398 £231
25th Percentile £500 £463 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.91%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £645 £669
South London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £24.92 £23.50
% change year-on-year +145.66% +6.04% -46.72%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Croydon

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CDK
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus