Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer 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 287 304 338
Rank change year-on-year +17 +34 +75
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 66 87 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.49% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.52% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 65 123
10th Percentile £380 £425 £500
25th Percentile £494 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +4.35%
75th Percentile £750 £625 £688
90th Percentile £780 £658 £725
England median daily rate £537 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -2.32% -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £69.00
25th Percentile - £52.50 £75.00
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.29% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -26.67% +25.00%

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%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in London

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 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
Central London -15 3 £619 +3.13% 13
South London +7 2 £638 +8.51%
West London - 2 £663 - 3
Platform Engineer
England

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

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

1 58 (87.88%) Platform Engineering
2 43 (65.15%) Terraform
3 40 (60.61%) DevOps
4 39 (59.09%) CI/CD
4 39 (59.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (56.06%) Kubernetes
6 35 (53.03%) Python
7 30 (45.45%) AWS
8 26 (39.39%) Azure
9 20 (30.30%) Linux
10 19 (28.79%) Ansible
11 17 (25.76%) Security Cleared
11 17 (25.76%) GitHub
12 16 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (19.70%) Jenkins
15 12 (18.18%) SC Cleared
15 12 (18.18%) Cloud Native
15 12 (18.18%) Docker
15 12 (18.18%) Serverless
15 12 (18.18%) GitOps
16 11 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (16.67%) Containerisation
16 11 (16.67%) Go
16 11 (16.67%) Bash
16 11 (16.67%) High Availability
17 10 (15.15%) Finance
17 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
17 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
18 9 (13.64%) GitLab

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 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) Camunda
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (45.45%) AWS
2 26 (39.39%) Azure
3 17 (25.76%) GitHub
4 16 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (18.18%) Serverless
6 11 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (12.12%) GCP
8 6 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (7.58%) Azure AKS
9 5 (7.58%) SaaS
10 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (6.06%) OCI
10 4 (6.06%) PaaS
11 3 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (4.55%) Azure Functions
11 3 (4.55%) dbt
11 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.64%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) Network Security
3 2 (3.03%) DNS
3 2 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (1.52%) BGP
4 1 (1.52%) MPLS
4 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (19.70%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.64%) GitLab
3 5 (7.58%) Git
4 3 (4.55%) JIRA
5 2 (3.03%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.03%) MLflow
6 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
General
1 10 (15.15%) Finance
1 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.55%) Multimedia
3 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.52%) Banking
5 1 (1.52%) Billing
5 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.03%) AWS SAM
2 2 (3.03%) Node.js
2 2 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (3.03%) REST
2 2 (3.03%) Spring
3 1 (1.52%) .NET
3 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.52%) Kafka
3 1 (1.52%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.55%) Podcast
3 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.52%) Derivative
4 1 (1.52%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (30.30%) Linux
2 4 (6.06%) Windows
3 3 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.03%) Unix
5 1 (1.52%) VMS
5 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (87.88%) Platform Engineering
2 40 (60.61%) DevOps
3 39 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 39 (59.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (18.18%) GitOps
6 11 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 11 (16.67%) High Availability
7 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (13.64%) Configuration Management
9 8 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (10.61%) Mentoring
11 6 (9.09%) Analytics
11 6 (9.09%) Cloud Security
12 5 (7.58%) Data Security
12 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Management
12 5 (7.58%) Machine Learning
12 5 (7.58%) RBAC
12 5 (7.58%) Software Engineering
12 5 (7.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (53.03%) Python
2 11 (16.67%) Bash
2 11 (16.67%) Go
3 8 (12.12%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.09%) Bicep
5 4 (6.06%) Java
5 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.06%) SQL
6 2 (3.03%) Groovy
6 2 (3.03%) Rust
6 2 (3.03%) Scala
7 1 (1.52%) C++
7 1 (1.52%) Clojure
7 1 (1.52%) Elixir
7 1 (1.52%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 17 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.52%) CEH
4 1 (1.52%) CISSP
4 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.52%) OCP
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) GDPR
1 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 12 (18.18%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (65.15%) Terraform
2 37 (56.06%) Kubernetes
3 19 (28.79%) Ansible
4 8 (12.12%) Rancher
5 5 (7.58%) Grafana
6 4 (6.06%) FortiGate
7 3 (4.55%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.52%) Argo
8 1 (1.52%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.52%) Kubeflow
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.52%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.52%) Sysdig
8 1 (1.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.58%) Google
3 4 (6.06%) Dataiku
3 4 (6.06%) Oracle
4 3 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.55%) VMware
5 2 (3.03%) Databricks
5 2 (3.03%) Qualys
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco
6 1 (1.52%) Citrix
6 1 (1.52%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.52%) Snow
6 1 (1.52%) Splunk