DevOps Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Platform Engineer - DevOps
England > London

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 384 467
Rank change year-on-year +39 +83 +108
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 8 7 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.039% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.042% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 18
10th Percentile £492 £463 £535
25th Percentile £517 £488 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £644 £694
90th Percentile £678 £688 £716
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
England median hourly rate - - £85.00

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in London

DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +7 1 £550 -15.38%
West London - 1 £800 -
DevOps Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Python
3 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
4 5 (62.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (50.00%) Go
5 4 (50.00%) Ansible
5 4 (50.00%) GitHub
5 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (37.50%) Serverless
6 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (37.50%) AWS CDK
6 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
6 3 (37.50%) Docker
6 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (37.50%) GitLab
6 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
6 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
7 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (25.00%) Grafana
7 2 (25.00%) GCP

DevOps 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 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (50.00%) GitHub
4 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (37.50%) Serverless
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 2 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (25.00%) GCP
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (12.50%) dbt
6 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) CircleCI
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) AWS CDK
2 2 (25.00%) AWS SAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Data Extraction
6 1 (12.50%) ETL
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Go
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (50.00%) Ansible
4 2 (25.00%) Grafana