Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in London

Platform Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 223 238
Rank change year-on-year +120 +15 -47
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 579 152 149
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.87% 1.12% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 1.21% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 107 117
10th Percentile £425 £362 £425
25th Percentile £488 £486 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £543 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% -9.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
England median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £81.25 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.50 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.90% +31.82% -29.49%

All Process & 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 18,001 12,519 14,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.32% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,856 8,363 10,133
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 250 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.01
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -14.89% -14.11%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.03 £71.44
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Platform Engineering

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 7 August 2026. 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 +44 76 £600 -2.04% 70
South London -11 11 £503 -12.61% 5
West London -17 3 £500 -36.51% 10
East London +2 2 £548 +52.08% 2
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (2.42%) Confluence
2 13 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.90%) Jupyter
4 10 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.21%) Apache
5 7 (1.21%) nginx
6 6 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.52%) Camunda
7 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.52%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.35%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.17%) Appian
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Maya
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.17%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.17%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.17%) SAP FS
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 230 (39.72%) AWS
2 222 (38.34%) Azure
3 113 (19.52%) GitHub
4 86 (14.85%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (13.47%) GCP
6 76 (13.13%) GitHub Actions
7 60 (10.36%) Serverless
8 47 (8.12%) Amazon S3
9 46 (7.94%) Entra ID
10 45 (7.77%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (6.22%) Azure AKS
12 29 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (4.66%) PaaS
14 26 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (4.15%) Power Platform
16 24 (4.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.94%) Firewall
2 14 (2.42%) DNS
2 14 (2.42%) Network Security
3 11 (1.90%) VPN
4 8 (1.38%) SSL
5 6 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.86%) HTTP
7 3 (0.52%) Internet
7 3 (0.52%) IPv4
7 3 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.52%) WAN
8 2 (0.35%) DHCP
8 2 (0.35%) OpenVPN
8 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.35%) SSH
8 2 (0.35%) VLAN
8 2 (0.35%) VSAN
8 2 (0.35%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.17%) NaaS
9 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.63%) Data Lake
2 19 (3.28%) Delta Lake
3 17 (2.94%) Power BI
4 12 (2.07%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.07%) SQL Server
5 10 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (1.55%) Metadata
6 9 (1.55%) Redis
7 8 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.21%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.21%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.04%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.86%) Tableau
11 4 (0.69%) Big Data
11 4 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 72 (12.44%) GitLab
2 57 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 50 (8.64%) Git
4 20 (3.45%) JIRA
5 16 (2.76%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.38%) MLflow
7 5 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.69%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.52%) Selenium
10 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.35%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.35%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.35%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.17%) RStudio
11 1 (0.17%) Snyk
General
1 113 (19.52%) Social Skills
2 105 (18.13%) Finance
3 60 (10.36%) Public Sector
4 46 (7.94%) Banking
5 37 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (1.55%) Retail
7 8 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (1.38%) Investment Banking
7 8 (1.38%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.21%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.04%) Law
9 6 (1.04%) Publishing
10 5 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.69%) Back Office
11 4 (0.69%) Legal
12 3 (0.52%) Billing
12 3 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 219 (37.82%) Platform Engineer
2 104 (17.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 101 (17.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 88 (15.20%) Senior
5 76 (13.13%) Azure Engineer
6 65 (11.23%) Lead
7 61 (10.54%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (10.19%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 57 (9.84%) AWS Engineer
10 51 (8.81%) Architect
11 49 (8.46%) Data Engineer
12 36 (6.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 31 (5.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 31 (5.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 24 (4.15%) Developer
15 22 (3.80%) Lead DevOps
16 21 (3.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 21 (3.63%) Senior DevOps
16 21 (3.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 18 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.04%) REST
2 23 (3.97%) Kafka
3 19 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
4 18 (3.11%) PySpark
5 14 (2.42%) YAML
6 13 (2.25%) .NET
6 13 (2.25%) Model Context Protocol
7 11 (1.90%) AWS CDK
7 11 (1.90%) React
7 11 (1.90%) vLLM
8 10 (1.73%) ARM Templates
9 9 (1.55%) OAuth
10 8 (1.38%) OAuth2
10 8 (1.38%) SAML
10 8 (1.38%) Spring
11 7 (1.21%) FastAPI
11 7 (1.21%) Middleware
11 7 (1.21%) OpenID
12 6 (1.04%) Flask
12 6 (1.04%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 134 (23.14%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.87%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (3.11%) Security Posture
5 15 (2.59%) AI Agents
6 14 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
8 10 (1.73%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.21%) Cloud Security Posture
11 7 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.04%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.86%) NHS
14 4 (0.69%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.94%) Linux
2 26 (4.49%) Windows
3 19 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.69%) Unix
6 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.52%) Solaris
6 3 (0.52%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.35%) VMS
7 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.17%) Android
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (52.68%) CI/CD
2 302 (52.16%) DevOps
3 256 (44.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (26.08%) AI
5 137 (23.66%) Software Engineering
6 119 (20.55%) Observability
7 108 (18.65%) Containerisation
8 67 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (11.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 65 (11.23%) Analytics
9 65 (11.23%) Migration
10 63 (10.88%) Agile
11 58 (10.02%) Machine Learning
12 55 (9.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 55 (9.50%) Microservices
12 55 (9.50%) Technical Leadership
13 53 (9.15%) LLM
13 53 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (8.98%) Cloud Security
14 52 (8.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 218 (37.65%) Python
2 72 (12.44%) SQL
3 58 (10.02%) Bash
4 48 (8.29%) Java
5 37 (6.39%) Bicep
6 36 (6.22%) PowerShell
7 33 (5.70%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.76%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.25%) C#
9 13 (2.25%) Go
10 10 (1.73%) Ruby
10 10 (1.73%) Scala
11 5 (0.86%) Groovy
11 5 (0.86%) Perl
11 5 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.52%) C++
12 3 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.52%) R
13 2 (0.35%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 169 (29.19%) Security Cleared
2 148 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.18%) DV Cleared
4 28 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 18 (3.11%) Degree
6 13 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.35%) CCSP
10 2 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.35%) CISSP
10 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.17%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.97%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.59%) QA
3 6 (1.04%) GDPR
3 6 (1.04%) NIST
4 5 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.86%) NCSC
5 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.52%) GRC
7 2 (0.35%) PMO
7 2 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 96 (16.58%) Docker
2 23 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.86%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.86%) vSphere
7 4 (0.69%) Firmware
8 3 (0.52%) NFS
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.52%) UAG
9 2 (0.35%) Ceph
9 2 (0.35%) HDFS
9 2 (0.35%) KVM
9 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) Samba
Systems Management
1 256 (44.21%) Terraform
2 171 (29.53%) Kubernetes
3 59 (10.19%) Ansible
4 48 (8.29%) Grafana
5 45 (7.77%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.59%) Puppet
7 12 (2.07%) Kubeflow
8 11 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.21%) Istio
10 7 (1.21%) Kustomize
10 7 (1.21%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.86%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.69%) Argo
12 4 (0.69%) linkerd
12 4 (0.69%) systemd
13 3 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.52%) SELinux
13 3 (0.52%) yum
14 2 (0.35%) Salt
Vendors
1 76 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 73 (12.61%) Databricks
3 38 (6.56%) Google
4 26 (4.49%) Oracle
5 21 (3.63%) Splunk
6 17 (2.94%) VMware
7 15 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.25%) Foundry
9 10 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.73%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.55%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (1.04%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.04%) Palantir
12 5 (0.86%) IBM
13 4 (0.69%) Nexthink
14 3 (0.52%) Hitachi
14 3 (0.52%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.52%) Sonatype
14 3 (0.52%) Workday