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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 206 294
Rank change year-on-year -33 +88 +9
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 152 322 354
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.87% 1.27% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.39% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 266 281
10th Percentile £425 £500 £463
25th Percentile £500 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £687 £775 £695
90th Percentile £750 £863 £775
England median daily rate £575 £613 £588
% change year-on-year -6.12% +4.26% +8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £53.85 £86.00 -
25th Percentile £55.88 £87.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.50 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.78% - -
75th Percentile £63.88 - -
90th Percentile £65.15 - -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £78.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.44% +30.00% -

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 15,450 23,106 35,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 90.87% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,083 16,714 26,163
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £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 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 262 405
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

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 31 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 31 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 +41 30 £613 -2.97% 11
South London +4 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 7 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.95%) Confluence
3 4 (2.63%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.97%) nginx
5 2 (1.32%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.66%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Shopify
2 1 (0.66%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 59 (38.82%) AWS
1 59 (38.82%) Azure
2 26 (17.11%) Serverless
3 23 (15.13%) GCP
4 19 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (11.84%) GitHub
6 15 (9.87%) Azure AKS
7 13 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (6.58%) Azure Functions
10 9 (5.92%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (5.92%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (5.92%) IaaS
11 8 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.26%) PaaS
12 7 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (3.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.89%) Firewall
2 6 (3.95%) FTP
3 5 (3.29%) IPv4
3 5 (3.29%) VPN
4 4 (2.63%) DNS
5 3 (1.97%) HTTP
5 3 (1.97%) ICMP
5 3 (1.97%) POP3
5 3 (1.97%) SMTP
5 3 (1.97%) SSH
5 3 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.32%) VSAN
7 1 (0.66%) LAN
7 1 (0.66%) Network Security
7 1 (0.66%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.66%) VLAN
7 1 (0.66%) WAN
7 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
1 5 (3.29%) Tableau
2 3 (1.97%) Airbyte
2 3 (1.97%) DynamoDB
2 3 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.97%) Flink
2 3 (1.97%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.97%) MySQL
2 3 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.97%) Power BI
3 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.66%) Adabas
4 1 (0.66%) Bigtable
4 1 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.66%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.66%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (20.39%) Jenkins
2 27 (17.76%) GitLab
3 14 (9.21%) Git
4 9 (5.92%) Cypress.io
4 9 (5.92%) JIRA
4 9 (5.92%) JMeter
5 2 (1.32%) 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%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.66%) TestNG
6 1 (0.66%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.47%) Finance
3 18 (11.84%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.61%) Banking
6 5 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.32%) Billing
8 2 (1.32%) Marketing
8 2 (1.32%) Retail
9 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (50.66%) Platform Engineer
2 39 (25.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 31 (20.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (12.50%) Senior
5 18 (11.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (7.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 11 (7.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Lead
11 8 (5.26%) Developer
12 7 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) Python Developer
13 6 (3.95%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.16%) Kafka
2 15 (9.87%) React
3 14 (9.21%) Node.js
4 6 (3.95%) CSS
4 6 (3.95%) HTML
5 5 (3.29%) Django
5 5 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (3.29%) REST
5 5 (3.29%) YAML
6 4 (2.63%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.97%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.97%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
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
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.61%) Machine to Machine
3 6 (3.95%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.29%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.29%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.97%) Replication
6 3 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.32%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.66%) Clustering
8 1 (0.66%) PDA
8 1 (0.66%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 47 (30.92%) Linux
2 7 (4.61%) Unix
3 6 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.29%) Windows
5 1 (0.66%) VMS
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (46.05%) CI/CD
2 68 (44.74%) DevOps
3 36 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (22.37%) Agile
5 25 (16.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (15.79%) Configuration Management
7 19 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (11.84%) Computer Science
9 17 (11.18%) Analytics
9 17 (11.18%) Containerisation
10 16 (10.53%) Software Engineering
11 11 (7.24%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (7.24%) Data Science
11 11 (7.24%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (6.58%) Microservices
13 9 (5.92%) Data Engineering
13 9 (5.92%) Machine Learning
13 9 (5.92%) Observability
13 9 (5.92%) Roadmaps
13 9 (5.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (45.39%) Python
2 20 (13.16%) SQL
3 19 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.21%) Bash
5 13 (8.55%) C#
5 13 (8.55%) PowerShell
6 12 (7.89%) Go
6 12 (7.89%) Java
7 7 (4.61%) Ruby
8 6 (3.95%) Rust
9 4 (2.63%) Scala
10 3 (1.97%) C
10 3 (1.97%) C++
10 3 (1.97%) Clojure
10 3 (1.97%) Haskell
10 3 (1.97%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.66%) Bicep
12 1 (0.66%) Natural
Qualifications
1 31 (20.39%) SC Cleared
1 31 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.18%) Degree
3 15 (9.87%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.32%) CCNP
7 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 38 (25.00%) Docker
2 5 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.97%) vSphere
5 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.32%) KVM
5 2 (1.32%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 90 (59.21%) Terraform
2 59 (38.82%) Kubernetes
3 30 (19.74%) Ansible
4 10 (6.58%) Argo
5 6 (3.95%) Grafana
6 5 (3.29%) Packer
7 4 (2.63%) Consul
7 4 (2.63%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.97%) Kibana
8 3 (1.97%) logstash
8 3 (1.97%) QRadar
9 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.66%) Istio
10 1 (0.66%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.66%) Puppet
10 1 (0.66%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (7.89%) Microsoft
1 12 (7.89%) ServiceNow
2 7 (4.61%) Splunk
3 5 (3.29%) Databricks
3 5 (3.29%) VMware
4 4 (2.63%) SAP
5 3 (1.97%) ArcSight
5 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.97%) New Relic
6 2 (1.32%) Adobe
6 2 (1.32%) Aruba
6 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco
6 2 (1.32%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.32%) Google
6 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.32%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.66%) Brio
7 1 (0.66%) CA
7 1 (0.66%) Juniper