Platform Engineering Contracts in London

Platform Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 244 228
Rank change year-on-year -3 -16 +56
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 106 149 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 0.84% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.94% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 111 247
10th Percentile £400 £425 £500
25th Percentile £503 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £633
Median % change year-on-year - -5.27% +5.56%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £750
90th Percentile £799 £750 £863
England median daily rate £550 £582 £600
% change year-on-year -5.50% -3.00% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £60.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.82% -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £60.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +19.83% -22.44% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering 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 15 £715 +19.17% 20
West London - 3 £775 - 7
South London +5 1 £550 - 1
East London - 1 £360 - 4
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.94%) Apache
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.94%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 52 (49.06%) AWS
2 41 (38.68%) Azure
3 21 (19.81%) GitHub
4 17 (16.04%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (12.26%) GCP
5 13 (12.26%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (12.26%) Serverless
6 10 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.66%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.66%) SaaS
10 5 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.72%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.77%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.77%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.83%) AWS KMS
12 3 (2.83%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.32%) Firewall
2 3 (2.83%) Network Security
2 3 (2.83%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.83%) WAN
3 2 (1.89%) DNS
3 2 (1.89%) LAN
3 2 (1.89%) VPN
3 2 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.89%) Wireless
4 1 (0.94%) BGP
4 1 (0.94%) MPLS
4 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) Data Lake
1 4 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.89%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.89%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.94%) Big Data
4 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.94%) Power BI
4 1 (0.94%) Spark SQL
4 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (21.70%) GitLab
1 23 (21.70%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.72%) Git
3 4 (3.77%) JIRA
4 2 (1.89%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.89%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.89%) eggPlant
4 2 (1.89%) MLflow
5 1 (0.94%) JIRA Agile
General
1 15 (14.15%) Finance
1 15 (14.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.60%) Banking
3 5 (4.72%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.83%) Multimedia
5 3 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (54.72%) Platform Engineer
2 32 (30.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 17 (16.04%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (15.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (14.15%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 15 (14.15%) Senior
6 14 (13.21%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (10.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 10 (9.43%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 10 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (9.43%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 9 (8.49%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (7.55%) Architect
10 8 (7.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (7.55%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 7 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (6.60%) Lead
12 6 (5.66%) Data Engineer
12 6 (5.66%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.66%) AWS CDK
2 4 (3.77%) REST
3 3 (2.83%) Node.js
4 2 (1.89%) .NET
4 2 (1.89%) AWS SAM
4 2 (1.89%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.89%) Jest
4 2 (1.89%) Kafka
4 2 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.89%) React
4 2 (1.89%) Spring
4 2 (1.89%) WPF
5 1 (0.94%) ADO
5 1 (0.94%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.94%) JSON
5 1 (0.94%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.94%) Middleware
5 1 (0.94%) PySpark
5 1 (0.94%) SOAP
5 1 (0.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.77%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.83%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.83%) Podcast
4 2 (1.89%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.89%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.94%) Derivative
5 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (28.30%) Linux
2 10 (9.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.66%) Windows
4 3 (2.83%) Unix
4 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.94%) CentOS
5 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (58.49%) DevOps
2 58 (54.72%) CI/CD
3 43 (40.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (17.92%) Containerisation
5 18 (16.98%) Configuration Management
6 16 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (12.26%) Microservices
8 12 (11.32%) Analytics
8 12 (11.32%) GitOps
8 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure Automation
9 11 (10.38%) High Availability
10 9 (8.49%) Agile
10 9 (8.49%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (8.49%) Cloud Security
10 9 (8.49%) Data Science
10 9 (8.49%) Machine Learning
10 9 (8.49%) Software Engineering
10 9 (8.49%) Test Automation
11 8 (7.55%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (42.45%) Python
2 14 (13.21%) Bash
2 14 (13.21%) Go
3 12 (11.32%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.55%) Java
5 7 (6.60%) Bicep
6 6 (5.66%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.72%) Rust
8 4 (3.77%) SQL
9 3 (2.83%) C#
9 3 (2.83%) Scala
10 2 (1.89%) C++
10 2 (1.89%) Clojure
10 2 (1.89%) Haskell
10 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.94%) Elixir
11 1 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 21 (19.81%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.49%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.72%) Degree
5 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.94%) OCP
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.94%) GDPR
1 1 (0.94%) NIST
1 1 (0.94%) QA
1 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (17.92%) Docker
2 3 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (57.55%) Terraform
2 56 (52.83%) Kubernetes
3 26 (24.53%) Ansible
4 8 (7.55%) Rancher
5 6 (5.66%) Grafana
6 5 (4.72%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.77%) FortiGate
8 3 (2.83%) Argo
9 2 (1.89%) Kubeflow
9 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.94%) Puppet
10 1 (0.94%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.66%) Dataiku
3 5 (4.72%) Databricks
4 4 (3.77%) Google
4 4 (3.77%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.83%) Cisco
5 3 (2.83%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.83%) VMware
6 2 (1.89%) Aruba
6 2 (1.89%) Netskope
6 2 (1.89%) Qualys
6 2 (1.89%) Ruckus Wireless
6 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.89%) Splunk
7 1 (0.94%) Altiris
7 1 (0.94%) Citrix
7 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.94%) HP
7 1 (0.94%) Snow
7 1 (0.94%) Workday