AWS Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 376 427
Rank change year-on-year +34 +51 +175
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 22 7 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.043% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.046% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 34
10th Percentile £306 £314 £514
25th Percentile £472 £335 £592
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £380 £650
Median % change year-on-year +48.03% -41.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £716 £525 £669
90th Percentile £738 £563 £725
England median daily rate £550 £453 £650
% change year-on-year +21.55% -30.38% +13.04%

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 12,605 15,202 22,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.07% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,486 10,678 16,198
10th Percentile £325 £350 £357
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 198 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.98 £22.00 £22.90
Median hourly rate £29.07 £33.29 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% -11.24% +15.03%
75th Percentile £49.81 £54.69 £64.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.88 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -43.94% +8.43% +61.60%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in London

AWS Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Platform Engineer 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +4 6 £475 -9.52%
AWS Platform Engineer
England

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 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 London region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) AWS
1 22 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 18 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 18 (81.82%) Terraform
3 16 (72.73%) Security Cleared
4 14 (63.64%) Python
5 13 (59.09%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (54.55%) SC Cleared
7 11 (50.00%) AWS KMS
7 11 (50.00%) Grafana
7 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
8 10 (45.45%) Docker
8 10 (45.45%) DevOps
8 10 (45.45%) Public Sector
8 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (40.91%) Amazon S3
10 8 (36.36%) Azure
10 8 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (36.36%) Git
10 8 (36.36%) Configuration Management
10 8 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (36.36%) Cloud Security
11 7 (31.82%) AWS Certification
11 7 (31.82%) DNS
11 7 (31.82%) SQL
11 7 (31.82%) Linux
11 7 (31.82%) Go
11 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
12 6 (27.27%) Amazon ELB

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (27.27%) Confluence
1 6 (27.27%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (50.00%) AWS KMS
4 9 (40.91%) Amazon S3
5 8 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (36.36%) Azure
6 6 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (27.27%) Amazon ELB
6 6 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (27.27%) Route 53
6 6 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (22.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 5 (22.73%) GitHub
7 5 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (9.09%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (9.09%) GCP
8 2 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) DNS
2 6 (27.27%) Firewall
2 6 (27.27%) FTP
2 6 (27.27%) HTTP
2 6 (27.27%) IMAP
2 6 (27.27%) OpenLDAP
2 6 (27.27%) SMTP
2 6 (27.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Git
2 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
3 6 (27.27%) JIRA
3 6 (27.27%) Vagrant
4 2 (9.09%) CircleCI
4 2 (9.09%) GitLab
5 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) LDAP
2 5 (22.73%) AWS CDK
3 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Replication
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Ubuntu
2 6 (27.27%) VMS
2 6 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 18 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 8 (36.36%) Configuration Management
5 6 (27.27%) Change Management
5 6 (27.27%) Observability
5 6 (27.27%) Patch Management
5 6 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (18.18%) Agile
7 4 (18.18%) Scrum
8 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
8 3 (13.64%) Cost Management
8 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Go
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) Groovy
3 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.64%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 7 (31.82%) AWS Certification
4 6 (27.27%) Azure Certification
4 6 (27.27%) Degree
5 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Docker
2 6 (27.27%) DFS Replication
2 6 (27.27%) Dovecot
2 6 (27.27%) Postfix
2 6 (27.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 18 (81.82%) Terraform
2 11 (50.00%) Grafana
2 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (27.27%) Nessus
3 6 (27.27%) Prometheus
3 6 (27.27%) Proxmox
4 2 (9.09%) Ansible
5 1 (4.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Jaspersoft
1 6 (27.27%) ServiceNow
14 AWS Platform Engineer jobs in England