Senior Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 639 743
Rank change year-on-year +108 +104 -133
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 14 20 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.039% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.042% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 14
10th Percentile £500 £525 £475
25th Percentile £525 £544 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £619 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +5.32% +14.63%
75th Percentile £648 £680 £684
90th Percentile £659 £722 £731
UK median daily rate £630 £619 £600
% change year-on-year +1.82% +3.13% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London +111 10 £600 -5.88% 20
North of England +22 2 £663 +15.22% 2
North West +16 2 £663 +20.45% 1
South West +23 1 £500 -27.27% 1
Senior Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (71.43%) AWS
3 9 (64.29%) Azure
3 9 (64.29%) Terraform
4 7 (50.00%) Python
5 6 (42.86%) Docker
5 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 6 (42.86%) Serverless
6 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (35.71%) DevOps
6 5 (35.71%) Agile
6 5 (35.71%) Degree
6 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
6 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
7 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
7 4 (28.57%) Git
7 4 (28.57%) Scrum
7 4 (28.57%) GCP
7 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
7 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (21.43%) Migration
8 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
8 3 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (21.43%) PaaS
8 3 (21.43%) Public Sector

Senior 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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 9 (64.29%) Azure
3 6 (42.86%) Serverless
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (21.43%) PaaS
6 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 2 (14.29%) GitHub
6 2 (14.29%) IaaS
7 1 (7.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Snyk
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Billing
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 4 (28.57%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) API Management
6 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 2 (14.29%) GitOps
6 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security
7 1 (7.14%) Interactive Application Security Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
7 1 (7.14%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Go
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Bicep
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Argo
3 1 (7.14%) Consul
3 1 (7.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Progress
2 1 (7.14%) VMware