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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 199 314
Rank change year-on-year -38 +115 -19
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 149 257 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.95% 1.26% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.40% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 207 224
10th Percentile £464 £450 £500
25th Percentile £525 £516 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £863 £768
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £59.00 -
25th Percentile - £60.00 £91.13
Median hourly rate - £63.50 £92.25
Median % change year-on-year - -31.17% -
75th Percentile - £84.25 £93.38
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £63.79 £72.50 £100.00
% change year-on-year -12.02% -27.50% -

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 13,962 18,344 33,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 89.71% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,995 13,225 24,324
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £798
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 234 277
10th Percentile £17.43 £18.21 £16.53
25th Percentile £25.17 £21.25 £23.25
Median hourly rate £38.75 £39.09 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +4.23% +8.70%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.25 £59.38
90th Percentile £80.23 £77.50 £75.39
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

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 October 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 October 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 +3 13 £625 -3.85% 11
South London -1 1 £615 -1.60%
West London -18 1 £400 -33.33%
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 (3.36%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.34%) Apache
3 2 (1.34%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.34%) Confluence
3 2 (1.34%) SAS
4 1 (0.67%) nginx
4 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 80 (53.69%) AWS
2 43 (28.86%) Azure
3 24 (16.11%) GCP
4 17 (11.41%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.37%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (5.37%) GitHub
6 7 (4.70%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (4.70%) Cloudflare
6 7 (4.70%) CloudFront
6 7 (4.70%) Fastly
7 6 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.03%) IaaS
7 6 (4.03%) PaaS
7 6 (4.03%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.36%) Serverless
9 4 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (2.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.70%) Firewall
2 5 (3.36%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (2.68%) Network Security
3 4 (2.68%) WAN
4 3 (2.01%) VPN
5 1 (0.67%) DNS
5 1 (0.67%) FTP
5 1 (0.67%) HTTP
5 1 (0.67%) LAN
5 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.67%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (4.03%) Power BI
2 5 (3.36%) Big Data
3 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.68%) Tableau
4 3 (2.01%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.01%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.01%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.67%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.67%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 50 (33.56%) Jenkins
2 48 (32.21%) GitLab
3 6 (4.03%) JIRA
4 5 (3.36%) Git
5 3 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.34%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.67%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.67%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 24 (16.11%) Finance
2 20 (13.42%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.07%) Banking
4 5 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.68%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.01%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.34%) Games
8 1 (0.67%) Advertising
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Front Office
8 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.67%) Local Government
8 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 61 (40.94%) Platform Engineer
2 34 (22.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (16.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 21 (14.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (14.09%) Senior
5 16 (10.74%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (9.40%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (9.40%) Developer
7 12 (8.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (6.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) Lead
11 7 (4.70%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (4.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) Data Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.37%) Kafka
2 7 (4.70%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.68%) Django
4 3 (2.01%) .NET
4 3 (2.01%) PySpark
4 3 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.01%) React
5 2 (1.34%) CSS
5 2 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.34%) HTML
6 1 (0.67%) ebXML
6 1 (0.67%) Flutter
6 1 (0.67%) JSON
6 1 (0.67%) Middleware
6 1 (0.67%) Node.js
6 1 (0.67%) REST
6 1 (0.67%) Spring
6 1 (0.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.67%) XML
6 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.36%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.68%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.68%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.67%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.67%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.67%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.67%) PDA
6 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 58 (38.93%) Linux
2 31 (20.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (6.04%) Windows
4 2 (1.34%) CentOS
4 2 (1.34%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.34%) Unix
4 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (60.40%) DevOps
2 77 (51.68%) CI/CD
3 44 (29.53%) Containerisation
4 42 (28.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 39 (26.17%) Configuration Management
6 34 (22.82%) Microservices
7 31 (20.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (14.77%) Analytics
9 20 (13.42%) Agile
10 18 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (10.74%) Test Automation
12 14 (9.40%) Computer Science
13 12 (8.05%) Infrastructure Automation
14 11 (7.38%) Continuous Integration
15 9 (6.04%) Cloud Security
16 8 (5.37%) Artificial Intelligence
16 8 (5.37%) Data Analytics
16 8 (5.37%) Data Science
16 8 (5.37%) E-Commerce
16 8 (5.37%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 58 (38.93%) Python
2 24 (16.11%) SQL
3 17 (11.41%) Bash
4 16 (10.74%) Go
5 15 (10.07%) PowerShell
6 12 (8.05%) Java
7 8 (5.37%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.70%) JavaScript
9 6 (4.03%) Bicep
10 5 (3.36%) Ruby
11 3 (2.01%) C#
11 3 (2.01%) C++
12 2 (1.34%) Groovy
12 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.34%) Scala
12 2 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.67%) Clojure
13 1 (0.67%) Haskell
13 1 (0.67%) Rust
13 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (32.89%) Security Cleared
2 48 (32.21%) SC Cleared
3 38 (25.50%) DV Cleared
4 12 (8.05%) Degree
5 8 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.34%) NIST
2 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.67%) GDPR
2 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.67%) QA
2 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (34.90%) Docker
2 6 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.36%) XenApp
3 5 (3.36%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 89 (59.73%) Terraform
2 83 (55.70%) Kubernetes
3 57 (38.26%) Ansible
4 6 (4.03%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.36%) Grafana
6 4 (2.68%) Argo
7 3 (2.01%) Puppet
8 2 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.67%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.67%) Consul
9 1 (0.67%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.67%) Kibana
9 1 (0.67%) logstash
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.67%) Packer
9 1 (0.67%) Salt
9 1 (0.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.71%) Databricks
3 8 (5.37%) Splunk
4 7 (4.70%) VMware
5 6 (4.03%) Citrix
5 6 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.68%) Google
6 4 (2.68%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.34%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.67%) Aruba
8 1 (0.67%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.67%) Brio
8 1 (0.67%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.67%) Commvault
8 1 (0.67%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.67%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.67%) Juniper
8 1 (0.67%) New Relic
8 1 (0.67%) OpenAI