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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 246 202
Rank change year-on-year +4 -44 +91
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 104 152 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.85% 0.87% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.99% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 111 261
10th Percentile £400 £425 £500
25th Percentile £503 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £633
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% -5.27% +5.56%
75th Percentile £736 £687 £775
90th Percentile £750 £750 £863
England median daily rate £550 £575 £613
% change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% +4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
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 £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 11,308 15,427 23,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 88.39% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,584 11,065 16,744
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £449 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 315 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.05
25th Percentile £23.99 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -29.34% +11.62%
75th Percentile £49.88 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 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 31 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 -4 15 £715 +16.73% 22
West London - 3 £775 - 3
South London -1 1 £550 -
East London - 1 £360 - 6
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 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.92%) Apache
2 2 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) Camunda
3 1 (0.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Magento
1 1 (0.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (45.19%) AWS
2 42 (40.38%) Azure
3 18 (17.31%) GitHub
4 15 (14.42%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (14.42%) GCP
5 13 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (10.58%) Serverless
8 8 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (7.69%) SaaS
9 7 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.85%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.85%) dbt
10 4 (3.85%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.85%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.88%) AWS KMS
11 3 (2.88%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.65%) Firewall
2 3 (2.88%) Network Security
2 3 (2.88%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.88%) WAN
3 2 (1.92%) LAN
3 2 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.92%) Wireless
4 1 (0.96%) BGP
4 1 (0.96%) DNS
4 1 (0.96%) MPLS
4 1 (0.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
1 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (1.92%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.92%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.92%) Power BI
2 2 (1.92%) Tableau
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.96%) Big Data
3 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (16.35%) GitLab
1 17 (16.35%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.77%) Git
2 6 (5.77%) JIRA
3 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.92%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.92%) eggPlant
3 2 (1.92%) MLflow
4 1 (0.96%) JIRA Agile
General
1 17 (16.35%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.38%) Finance
3 9 (8.65%) Banking
4 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.85%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.88%) Multimedia
5 3 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 59 (56.73%) Platform Engineer
2 31 (29.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (14.42%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (14.42%) Senior
5 14 (13.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 14 (13.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 11 (10.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (10.58%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Data Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 6 (5.77%) Architect
11 6 (5.77%) Lead
11 6 (5.77%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (5.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.77%) AWS CDK
2 3 (2.88%) Node.js
3 2 (1.92%) .NET
3 2 (1.92%) Django
3 2 (1.92%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.92%) Jest
3 2 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.92%) React
3 2 (1.92%) REST
3 2 (1.92%) Spring
3 2 (1.92%) WPF
4 1 (0.96%) ADO
4 1 (0.96%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.96%) AWS SAM
4 1 (0.96%) JSON
4 1 (0.96%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.96%) Middleware
4 1 (0.96%) PySpark
4 1 (0.96%) SOAP
4 1 (0.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.19%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.81%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.88%) Podcast
3 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.92%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.92%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.92%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.96%) Linux
2 7 (6.73%) Windows
3 4 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.92%) Unix
6 1 (0.96%) CentOS
6 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (55.77%) DevOps
2 49 (47.12%) CI/CD
3 48 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (16.35%) Containerisation
5 15 (14.42%) Agile
5 15 (14.42%) GitOps
5 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (13.46%) High Availability
7 13 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 13 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 13 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (9.62%) Mentoring
8 10 (9.62%) Microservices
9 9 (8.65%) Observability
10 8 (7.69%) Cloud Security
10 8 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (7.69%) Software Engineering
10 8 (7.69%) Test Automation
11 7 (6.73%) Analytics
11 7 (6.73%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 45 (43.27%) Python
2 15 (14.42%) Bash
3 13 (12.50%) Go
3 13 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.73%) Bicep
4 7 (6.73%) SQL
5 6 (5.77%) Java
6 5 (4.81%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.88%) Rust
8 2 (1.92%) C#
8 2 (1.92%) C++
8 2 (1.92%) Scala
8 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.96%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 18 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.81%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.85%) Degree
5 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.96%) OCP
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.92%) GDPR
1 2 (1.92%) NIST
2 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.96%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (60.58%) Terraform
2 51 (49.04%) Kubernetes
3 24 (23.08%) Ansible
4 11 (10.58%) Rancher
5 6 (5.77%) Grafana
6 5 (4.81%) Argo
6 5 (4.81%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.85%) FortiGate
8 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.92%) Kubeflow
9 2 (1.92%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.96%) Consul
10 1 (0.96%) Packer
10 1 (0.96%) Puppet
10 1 (0.96%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 15 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.73%) Google
3 3 (2.88%) Databricks
3 3 (2.88%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.92%) Aruba
4 2 (1.92%) Cisco
4 2 (1.92%) Dataiku
4 2 (1.92%) Netskope
4 2 (1.92%) Qualys
4 2 (1.92%) Ruckus Wireless
4 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.92%) Splunk
4 2 (1.92%) VMware
5 1 (0.96%) Adobe
5 1 (0.96%) Altiris
5 1 (0.96%) HP
5 1 (0.96%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.96%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.96%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.96%) SAP