Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 342 421
Rank change year-on-year +32 +79 -61
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 84 152 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.58% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.61% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 119 128
10th Percentile £425 £493 £450
25th Percentile £463 £550 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.18% +7.82%
75th Percentile £600 £681 £688
90th Percentile £659 £725 £775
England median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £71.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £80.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £86.25 -
90th Percentile - £88.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £76.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.10% +27.50% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,468 24,945 36,702
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,900 18,104 26,876
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 282 440
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.79 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.64%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £79.80 £68.19
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024. 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 +46 20 £550 -12.00% 3
South London +6 2 £588 +18.48%
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 79 (94.05%) Platform Engineering
2 49 (58.33%) Terraform
3 36 (42.86%) Python
4 35 (41.67%) Azure
5 33 (39.29%) AWS
6 27 (32.14%) Kubernetes
6 27 (32.14%) DevOps
7 26 (30.95%) CI/CD
8 22 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (23.81%) Public Sector
9 20 (23.81%) Docker
10 15 (17.86%) Serverless
10 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
10 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
10 15 (17.86%) Linux
11 13 (15.48%) ServiceNow
12 11 (13.10%) Containerisation
12 11 (13.10%) GCP
12 11 (13.10%) Finance
12 11 (13.10%) Agile
13 10 (11.90%) Git
13 10 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (11.90%) Social Skills
13 10 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (10.71%) Azure AKS
14 9 (10.71%) Go
14 9 (10.71%) SQL
15 8 (9.52%) Bash
15 8 (9.52%) Jenkins
15 8 (9.52%) Ansible

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 3 (3.57%) Confluence
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.38%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (2.38%) nginx
3 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.19%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 35 (41.67%) Azure
2 33 (39.29%) AWS
3 15 (17.86%) Serverless
4 11 (13.10%) GCP
5 10 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (10.71%) Azure AKS
7 8 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (7.14%) GitHub
9 6 (7.14%) IaaS
9 6 (7.14%) PaaS
10 5 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.95%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) Firewall
2 4 (4.76%) IPv4
3 3 (3.57%) VPN
4 2 (2.38%) DNS
4 2 (2.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.38%) MySQL
1 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.19%) Adabas
2 1 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.19%) Bigtable
2 1 (1.19%) CockroachDB
2 1 (1.19%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.19%) CouchDB
2 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.19%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.19%) Metadata
2 1 (1.19%) Redis
2 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) Git
2 8 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.95%) JIRA
4 4 (4.76%) GitLab
5 3 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.57%) JMeter
6 1 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.19%) CA Gen
6 1 (1.19%) GoCD
6 1 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 11 (13.10%) Finance
3 10 (11.90%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Banking
6 2 (2.38%) Billing
7 1 (1.19%) Back Office
7 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) Kafka
2 5 (5.95%) Node.js
3 4 (4.76%) YAML
4 3 (3.57%) React
4 3 (3.57%) REST
5 2 (2.38%) ADO
6 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.19%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.19%) AWS SAM
6 1 (1.19%) CSS
6 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.19%) HTML
6 1 (1.19%) JSON
6 1 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.19%) RESTful
6 1 (1.19%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.57%) Machine to Machine
4 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.38%) Replication
5 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.19%) MPEG
5 1 (1.19%) PKI
5 1 (1.19%) PropTech
5 1 (1.19%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.86%) Linux
2 5 (5.95%) Windows
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.38%) Unix
5 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (94.05%) Platform Engineering
2 27 (32.14%) DevOps
3 26 (30.95%) CI/CD
4 22 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (13.10%) Agile
5 11 (13.10%) Containerisation
6 8 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (8.33%) Configuration Management
7 7 (8.33%) DevSecOps
7 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (7.14%) Software Engineering
9 5 (5.95%) Computer Science
9 5 (5.95%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (4.76%) Analytics
10 4 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (4.76%) Task Automation
10 4 (4.76%) Test Automation
10 4 (4.76%) Validation
11 3 (3.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 3 (3.57%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 36 (42.86%) Python
2 9 (10.71%) Go
2 9 (10.71%) SQL
3 8 (9.52%) Bash
4 7 (8.33%) Java
4 7 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.95%) C++
5 5 (5.95%) Ruby
6 4 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.57%) C#
7 3 (3.57%) Rust
8 2 (2.38%) C
8 2 (2.38%) Scala
9 1 (1.19%) Clojure
9 1 (1.19%) Groovy
9 1 (1.19%) Haskell
9 1 (1.19%) Natural
9 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.14%) Degree
3 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) NIST
2 1 (1.19%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 20 (23.81%) Docker
2 5 (5.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (58.33%) Terraform
2 27 (32.14%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.52%) Ansible
4 5 (5.95%) Grafana
5 4 (4.76%) Argo
5 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.57%) Consul
6 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.57%) Packer
6 3 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.38%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.19%) Istio
8 1 (1.19%) Puppet
8 1 (1.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 13 (15.48%) ServiceNow
2 6 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.57%) Databricks
4 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.38%) VMware
5 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.19%) CA
5 1 (1.19%) Google
5 1 (1.19%) New Relic
5 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.19%) SAP
5 1 (1.19%) Splunk
5 1 (1.19%) Trend Micro