AWS Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 522 621
Rank change year-on-year +57 +99 +101
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 20 20 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.054% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.058% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 29
10th Percentile £493 £458 £493
25th Percentile £500 £516 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £694 £588 £650
90th Percentile £825 £630 £715
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured AWS Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +42 15 £563 +1.12% 18
South East +47 4 £500 -6.98% 8
East Midlands - 2 £500 -
Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
AWS Platform Engineer
UK

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) AWS
1 20 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (75.00%) Terraform
3 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (60.00%) DevOps
4 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
4 11 (55.00%) Python
5 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (40.00%) Configuration Management
6 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
6 8 (40.00%) Ansible
7 7 (35.00%) GitHub
7 7 (35.00%) Azure
7 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
7 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
7 7 (35.00%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (30.00%) Linux
8 6 (30.00%) High Availability
9 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (25.00%) Git
9 5 (25.00%) Serverless
9 5 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
10 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
10 4 (20.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
10 4 (20.00%) Databricks
10 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) GitHub
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (25.00%) Serverless
4 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (15.00%) GCP
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (10.00%) AWS KMS
6 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) GitLab
4 2 (10.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (10.00%) AWS SAM
2 1 (5.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (60.00%) DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (40.00%) Configuration Management
5 6 (30.00%) High Availability
6 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (20.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 4 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Open Source
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Server Building
7 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (15.00%) Data Science
7 3 (15.00%) Data Security
7 3 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
7 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Go
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) OCP
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (75.00%) Terraform
2 8 (40.00%) Ansible
3 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
4 2 (10.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Dataiku
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft