AWS Platform Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
South East > Hampshire

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Hampshire is £573, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 August 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
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.10% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £561 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 - -
75th Percentile £584 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £573 - £544
% change year-on-year - - -22.32%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Hampshire with a recognized job title 932 1,364 1,199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 92.60% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 858 708
10th Percentile £211 £363 £250
25th Percentile £418 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £650 £713 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 135 102
10th Percentile £19.00 £21.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £48.66 £20.24
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +9.24% +50.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.43 £66.25
90th Percentile £74.50 £76.86 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in Hampshire

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 23 August 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 Hampshire region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat