DevOps Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 July 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
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 535 610
Rank change year-on-year +39 +75 +159
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 11 14 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.038% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.041% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 26
10th Percentile £439 £470 £500
25th Percentile £463 £550 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -7.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £669
90th Percentile £643 £670 £718
UK median daily rate £550 £554 £600
% change year-on-year -0.63% -7.75% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
UK median hourly rate - - £85.00

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 25,109 34,216 45,337
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.93% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,354 22,394 32,126
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £660
90th Percentile £740 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,217 2,460 1,400
10th Percentile £13.77 £13.00 £14.74
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -9.09% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.59 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £39.55 £43.00
% change year-on-year -33.00% -8.02% +67.45%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in England

DevOps Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in England

DevOps Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in England

DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 July 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 +28 6 £575 -
West Midlands +8 3 £450 -19.21%
Midlands +4 3 £450 -19.21%
North of England -1 2 £461 -16.14% 1
North West 0 1 £373 -37.92% 1
South West - 1 £500 -
North East - 1 £550 -
DevOps Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (90.91%) Terraform
3 9 (81.82%) AWS
3 9 (81.82%) Python
3 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
4 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
4 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
5 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
5 6 (54.55%) Docker
5 6 (54.55%) Cloud Security
6 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (45.45%) Grafana
6 5 (45.45%) Git
6 5 (45.45%) Linux
6 5 (45.45%) Configuration Management
7 4 (36.36%) Change Management
7 4 (36.36%) Nessus
7 4 (36.36%) JIRA
7 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
7 4 (36.36%) Azure
7 4 (36.36%) GitHub
7 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
7 4 (36.36%) Ansible
7 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
7 4 (36.36%) Software Delivery
7 4 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (36.36%) AWS KMS
8 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions

DevOps 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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
1 3 (27.27%) nginx
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
2 4 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (36.36%) AWS KMS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (27.27%) Route 53
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (9.09%) dbt
5 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) IMAP
1 3 (27.27%) OpenLDAP
1 3 (27.27%) SMTP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) FTP
2 1 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (9.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 5 (45.45%) Git
3 4 (36.36%) JIRA
4 3 (27.27%) GitLab
4 3 (27.27%) Vagrant
5 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
6 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (9.09%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
6 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) LDAP
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
3 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (27.27%) VMS
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Cloud Security
4 5 (45.45%) Configuration Management
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (36.36%) Change Management
5 4 (36.36%) Software Delivery
6 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
6 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
7 2 (18.18%) Data Transformation
7 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
7 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (18.18%) Observability
7 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
8 1 (9.09%) GitOps
8 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Groovy
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) Dovecot
2 3 (27.27%) Postfix
2 3 (27.27%) Squid
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.09%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Grafana
3 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (36.36%) Nessus
3 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (9.09%) Kibana
4 1 (9.09%) Packer
4 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 1 (9.09%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Jaspersoft
1 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 1 (9.09%) Cloudera
3 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) VMware