DevOps Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Platform Engineer - DevOps
England > London

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 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
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 378 452
Rank change year-on-year +16 +74 +160
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 9 3 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.066% 0.018% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.020% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 19
10th Percentile - £564 £509
25th Percentile £525 £566 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% -2.04%
75th Percentile £669 £616 £713
90th Percentile £748 £621 £724
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 12,608 15,269 22,668
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 94.13% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,524 10,788 16,594
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 199 244
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.45 £18.56
25th Percentile £22.98 £22.00 £24.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% -11.81% +12.78%
75th Percentile £50.13 £54.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £81.58
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%

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 7 August 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 7 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 - -
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 7 August 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 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) Python
3 7 (77.78%) Azure
3 7 (77.78%) Cloud Security
4 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
4 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
5 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
5 5 (55.56%) DNS
5 5 (55.56%) SQL
5 5 (55.56%) Windows
5 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
5 5 (55.56%) GitHub
5 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
5 5 (55.56%) ServiceNow
5 5 (55.56%) Docker
5 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
5 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
6 4 (44.44%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (44.44%) AWS KMS
6 4 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
6 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
6 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (44.44%) Proxmox

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 4 (44.44%) Confluence
1 4 (44.44%) nginx
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Azure
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
3 5 (55.56%) GitHub
4 4 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (44.44%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (44.44%) AWS KMS
4 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (44.44%) Route 53
4 4 (44.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 2 (22.22%) GCP
7 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) FTP
2 4 (44.44%) HTTP
2 4 (44.44%) IMAP
2 4 (44.44%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (44.44%) SMTP
2 4 (44.44%) SSH
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 4 (44.44%) Vagrant
3 3 (33.33%) GitLab
4 2 (22.22%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Ubuntu
2 4 (44.44%) VMS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) Cloud Security
4 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
5 4 (44.44%) Change Management
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (44.44%) Patch Management
5 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
7 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
7 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
8 1 (11.11%) Agile
8 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
8 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
8 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
8 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) Groovy
4 1 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
2 4 (44.44%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 4 (44.44%) DFS Replication
2 4 (44.44%) Dovecot
2 4 (44.44%) Postfix
2 4 (44.44%) Squid
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Grafana
2 4 (44.44%) Nessus
2 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
2 4 (44.44%) Proxmox
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) Kibana
4 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) ServiceNow
2 4 (44.44%) Jaspersoft