Senior Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in England is £522, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 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
17 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 534 624
Rank change year-on-year +80 +90 +159
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 24 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.097% 0.040% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.043% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 12
10th Percentile £400 £500 £514
25th Percentile £405 £525 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £630 £631
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% -0.20% +9.78%
75th Percentile £575 £655 £702
90th Percentile £598 £675 £748
UK median daily rate £515 £640 £645
% change year-on-year -19.48% -0.78% +12.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.50

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 22,842 34,786 44,421
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.84% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,017 22,675 31,547
10th Percentile £293 £288 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £635 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 2,675 1,318
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.58 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -12.11% +85.22%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%

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 17 June 2025.

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 17 June 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 +41 11 £550 -12.69% 154
North of England +9 5 £402 -39.32% 72
South East - 5 £402 - 87
North West +14 2 £401 -39.47% 48
Yorkshire - 2 £450 - 21
East Midlands - 2 £534 - 18
Midlands - 2 £534 - 44
North East - 1 £550 - 3
Senior Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 2025, 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 22 (91.67%) CI/CD
1 22 (91.67%) Python
2 21 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
3 20 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (79.17%) DevOps
5 18 (75.00%) AWS
6 16 (66.67%) Terraform
7 15 (62.50%) Kubernetes
7 15 (62.50%) Azure
8 14 (58.33%) Jenkins
9 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (41.67%) Mentoring
10 10 (41.67%) Docker
11 8 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (33.33%) Bash
11 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
11 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
12 7 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
12 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
12 7 (29.17%) Agile
12 7 (29.17%) Ansible
12 7 (29.17%) GitHub
13 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (25.00%) Java
13 6 (25.00%) SQL
13 6 (25.00%) Linux
13 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
13 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation

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 2 (8.33%) WebSphere
1 2 (8.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) AWS
2 15 (62.50%) Azure
3 8 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (29.17%) GitHub
4 7 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (20.83%) Serverless
7 4 (16.67%) GCP
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 3 (12.50%) Azure Batch
8 3 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
9 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
9 2 (8.33%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (8.33%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Calico
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) BGP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) MPLS
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.83%) GitLab
3 3 (12.50%) Git
4 2 (8.33%) CircleCI
4 2 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) AWS CDK
1 3 (12.50%) Kafka
1 3 (12.50%) Middleware
1 3 (12.50%) React
2 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Android
2 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 21 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
3 20 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (79.17%) DevOps
5 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (41.67%) Mentoring
7 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
8 7 (29.17%) Agile
9 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
10 5 (20.83%) Migration
11 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
11 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
11 4 (16.67%) Validation
12 3 (12.50%) Data Engineering
12 3 (12.50%) Data Governance
12 3 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
12 3 (12.50%) Data Lineage
12 3 (12.50%) Data Science
12 3 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) Python
2 8 (33.33%) Bash
2 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 6 (25.00%) Java
3 6 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) Bicep
4 3 (12.50%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) Go
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) Scala
5 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (12.50%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (66.67%) Terraform
2 15 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 7 (29.17%) Ansible
4 4 (16.67%) Grafana
5 2 (8.33%) FortiGate
5 2 (8.33%) Istio
5 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.17%) VMware
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