Platform Engineering Contracts in London

Platform Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 231 289
Rank change year-on-year -7 +58 +28
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 152 312 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.86% 1.17% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.28% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 252 289
10th Percentile £428 £501 £463
25th Percentile £500 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £633 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% +5.56% +10.09%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £695
90th Percentile £750 £863 £775
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £53.85 - -
25th Percentile £55.88 - -
Median hourly rate £60.50 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.82% - -
75th Percentile £63.88 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £65.15 £89.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £81.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -25.77% +35.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,690 24,329 35,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.98% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,247 17,488 26,241
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.34 £63.81 £50.94
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 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 +45 34 £600 -5.88% 10
South London +5 3 £550 +10.92%
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 5 (3.29%) Confluence
2 4 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.97%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.97%) nginx
4 2 (1.32%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (39.47%) Azure
2 59 (38.82%) AWS
3 28 (18.42%) Serverless
4 24 (15.79%) GCP
5 19 (12.50%) GitHub
6 18 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (9.21%) Azure AKS
8 12 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (6.58%) Azure Functions
10 9 (5.92%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.26%) IaaS
11 8 (5.26%) PaaS
11 8 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (4.61%) Amazon S3
13 6 (3.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.87%) Firewall
2 6 (3.95%) FTP
2 6 (3.95%) VPN
3 5 (3.29%) DNS
3 5 (3.29%) IPv4
3 5 (3.29%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.63%) HTTP
4 4 (2.63%) ICMP
4 4 (2.63%) POP3
4 4 (2.63%) SMTP
4 4 (2.63%) SSH
5 2 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.32%) Network Security
5 2 (1.32%) VLAN
5 2 (1.32%) VSAN
6 1 (0.66%) DHCP
6 1 (0.66%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.66%) NAS
6 1 (0.66%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.97%) Airbyte
3 3 (1.97%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.97%) Flink
3 3 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.32%) MySQL
4 2 (1.32%) Tableau
5 1 (0.66%) Adabas
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.66%) Big Data
5 1 (0.66%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.66%) Bigtable
5 1 (0.66%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.66%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (19.08%) Jenkins
2 27 (17.76%) GitLab
3 15 (9.87%) Git
4 9 (5.92%) Cypress.io
4 9 (5.92%) JMeter
5 6 (3.95%) JIRA
6 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.66%) CA Gen
6 1 (0.66%) GoCD
6 1 (0.66%) Gradle
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) Maven
6 1 (0.66%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.66%) TestNG
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (17.76%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.13%) Finance
3 22 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.58%) Banking
5 8 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.32%) Billing
8 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.32%) Marketing
8 2 (1.32%) Retail
9 1 (0.66%) Back Office
9 1 (0.66%) Law
9 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 81 (53.29%) Platform Engineer
2 39 (25.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 28 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (13.82%) Senior
5 18 (11.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (9.87%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (7.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 11 (7.24%) Developer
10 10 (6.58%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.92%) Lead
12 8 (5.26%) Python Developer
13 7 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (4.61%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 6 (3.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.95%) GCP Engineer
14 6 (3.95%) Software Engineer
15 5 (3.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.82%) Kafka
2 18 (11.84%) React
3 15 (9.87%) Node.js
4 7 (4.61%) CSS
4 7 (4.61%) HTML
4 7 (4.61%) REST
5 6 (3.95%) Django
5 6 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.29%) YAML
7 3 (1.97%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.97%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.32%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.32%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.32%) http4s
8 2 (1.32%) JSON
8 2 (1.32%) OAuth
8 2 (1.32%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.32%) OpenID
8 2 (1.32%) VML
9 1 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.61%) Machine to Machine
2 7 (4.61%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.95%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.95%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.29%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.97%) Replication
7 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.66%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.66%) Clustering
8 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.66%) PKI
8 1 (0.66%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 41 (26.97%) Linux
2 7 (4.61%) Unix
2 7 (4.61%) Windows
3 4 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.66%) VMS
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.45%) CI/CD
2 58 (38.16%) DevOps
3 30 (19.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (18.42%) Agile
5 21 (13.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 18 (11.84%) Computer Science
8 17 (11.18%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (9.87%) Software Engineering
10 13 (8.55%) Containerisation
11 12 (7.89%) Analytics
11 12 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (7.24%) Machine Learning
12 11 (7.24%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (5.92%) Data Science
13 9 (5.92%) DevSecOps
13 9 (5.92%) Microservices
14 8 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence
15 7 (4.61%) Disaster Recovery
15 7 (4.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (39.47%) Python
2 24 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 15 (9.87%) SQL
4 14 (9.21%) C#
4 14 (9.21%) Java
5 12 (7.89%) Bash
6 11 (7.24%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.58%) Go
8 6 (3.95%) Rust
9 5 (3.29%) Ruby
9 5 (3.29%) Scala
10 4 (2.63%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.97%) C
11 3 (1.97%) C++
11 3 (1.97%) Clojure
11 3 (1.97%) Haskell
12 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.66%) Groovy
13 1 (0.66%) Natural
Qualifications
1 34 (22.37%) SC Cleared
1 34 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.87%) Degree
3 13 (8.55%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.97%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.32%) CCNP
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.32%) NIST
2 1 (0.66%) ISO 22301
2 1 (0.66%) NIST 800
2 1 (0.66%) PMO
2 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 32 (21.05%) Docker
2 7 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.97%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.97%) vSphere
6 2 (1.32%) KVM
6 2 (1.32%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 84 (55.26%) Terraform
2 50 (32.89%) Kubernetes
3 25 (16.45%) Ansible
4 11 (7.24%) Argo
5 6 (3.95%) Packer
6 5 (3.29%) Grafana
7 4 (2.63%) Consul
7 4 (2.63%) Kibana
7 4 (2.63%) logstash
7 4 (2.63%) QRadar
8 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.97%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.32%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.66%) Puppet
10 1 (0.66%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (0.66%) WMI
10 1 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (9.21%) Microsoft
1 14 (9.21%) ServiceNow
2 5 (3.29%) VMware
3 4 (2.63%) ArcSight
3 4 (2.63%) SAP
3 4 (2.63%) Splunk
4 3 (1.97%) Databricks
4 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.32%) Adobe
5 2 (1.32%) Aruba
5 2 (1.32%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (1.32%) Cisco
5 2 (1.32%) Google
5 2 (1.32%) New Relic
5 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.32%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.66%) Brio
6 1 (0.66%) CA
6 1 (0.66%) Dell