AWS Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 373 378
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 +182
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 26 4 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.026% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.027% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 27
10th Percentile £336 £489 £458
25th Percentile £472 £492 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £669 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +21.59% -1.12%
75th Percentile £697 £831 £650
90th Percentile £738 £843 £695
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +2.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

AWS Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in London

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in London

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in London

AWS Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
South London - 10 £475 -
Central London - 1 £375 -
AWS Platform Engineer
England

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, AWS Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) AWS
1 26 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 23 (88.46%) CI/CD
3 22 (84.62%) Terraform
4 18 (69.23%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (69.23%) Python
5 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
6 16 (61.54%) AWS KMS
6 16 (61.54%) Grafana
7 15 (57.69%) DevOps
8 14 (53.85%) Docker
8 14 (53.85%) SC Cleared
9 13 (50.00%) Amazon S3
9 13 (50.00%) DNS
10 12 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (46.15%) Git
10 12 (46.15%) Jenkins
10 12 (46.15%) Kubernetes
11 11 (42.31%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (42.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (42.31%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (42.31%) AWS Certification
11 11 (42.31%) Configuration Management
11 11 (42.31%) Confluence
11 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (42.31%) JIRA
11 11 (42.31%) Linux
11 11 (42.31%) SQL
11 11 (42.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (38.46%) Amazon EKS

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (42.31%) Confluence
2 10 (38.46%) nginx
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (69.23%) Amazon ECS
3 16 (61.54%) AWS KMS
4 13 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 12 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (42.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (42.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (38.46%) Amazon ELB
7 10 (38.46%) Azure
7 10 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (38.46%) Route 53
8 7 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (23.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (15.38%) GitHub
10 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (7.69%) Datadog
12 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
12 1 (3.85%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (50.00%) DNS
2 10 (38.46%) Firewall
2 10 (38.46%) FTP
2 10 (38.46%) HTTP
2 10 (38.46%) IMAP
2 10 (38.46%) OpenLDAP
2 10 (38.46%) SMTP
2 10 (38.46%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) Amazon Aurora
1 11 (42.31%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) CouchDB
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) Redis
3 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Git
1 12 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 11 (42.31%) JIRA
3 10 (38.46%) Vagrant
4 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 14 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
3 10 (38.46%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) LDAP
2 6 (23.08%) AWS CDK
3 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.85%) Memcached
4 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Replication
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Linux
2 10 (38.46%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (38.46%) Ubuntu
2 10 (38.46%) VMS
2 10 (38.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 23 (88.46%) CI/CD
3 15 (57.69%) DevOps
4 11 (42.31%) Configuration Management
4 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (38.46%) Change Management
5 10 (38.46%) Cloud Security
5 10 (38.46%) Patch Management
5 10 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (26.92%) Observability
8 4 (15.38%) Agile
8 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (11.54%) Scrum
10 2 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
10 2 (7.69%) Cost Management
10 2 (7.69%) GitOps
10 2 (7.69%) Migration
10 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) SQL
3 10 (38.46%) Groovy
3 10 (38.46%) PowerShell
4 7 (26.92%) Go
5 3 (11.54%) Java
6 2 (7.69%) Bash
7 1 (3.85%) PHP
7 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 14 (53.85%) SC Cleared
3 11 (42.31%) AWS Certification
4 10 (38.46%) Azure Certification
4 10 (38.46%) Degree
5 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Docker
2 10 (38.46%) DFS Replication
2 10 (38.46%) Dovecot
2 10 (38.46%) Postfix
2 10 (38.46%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (84.62%) Terraform
2 16 (61.54%) Grafana
3 12 (46.15%) Kubernetes
4 10 (38.46%) Nessus
4 10 (38.46%) Prometheus
4 10 (38.46%) Proxmox
5 2 (7.69%) Argo
6 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (38.46%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.85%) Atlassian