Senior Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 474 590
Rank change year-on-year +102 +116 -116
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 10 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.057% 0.034% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.036% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 11
10th Percentile £515 £525 £513
25th Percentile £550 £569 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +2.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £645 £700 £688
90th Percentile £651 £735 £750
England median daily rate £600 £619 £575
% change year-on-year -3.03% +7.61% +12.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,506 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,947 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in London

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in London

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in London

Senior Platform Engineer
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 Senior Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 8 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 +46 3 £600 +9.09%
Senior Platform Engineer
England

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Senior Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) AWS
3 6 (60.00%) Terraform
4 5 (50.00%) Serverless
4 5 (50.00%) Azure
4 5 (50.00%) Docker
4 5 (50.00%) Python
4 5 (50.00%) Degree
5 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (40.00%) Scrum
5 4 (40.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (40.00%) Git
5 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (20.00%) Billing
7 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (20.00%) GCP
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (20.00%) GCP
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (10.00%) dbt
6 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (10.00%) IaaS
6 1 (10.00%) PaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) API Management
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) DataOps
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) GitOps
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) MLOps
5 1 (10.00%) Proactive Maintenance
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Scala
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Consul
3 1 (10.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Progress